Announcing the winners of the Ada Cambridge prizes!

Congratulations to everyone who was shortlisted for the Ada Cambridge Writing Prizes 2015.

We are delighted to announce the winners:

The Ada Cambridge Biographical Prose Prize 2015

First Prize
Adam Deverell, The journey home

Runner-up
Fikret Pajalic, Hunger

Highly commended
Kate Amesbury, The growing pains of Aphrodite’s child

Commended
Jenny Sandercombe, Fracture

Short-listed
Samantha J Carroll, Elvis
Jonathan Griffiths, Barbed wire and baba ghanoush
Jacqui Horwood, The bitterest tears shed
Christine Mackley, Watermelons and fluffy coats
Danielle Whelan, Chants for small change

The Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize 2015

First Prize
Suzi Mezei, Lodger

Runner-up
Belinda Rule, The loved body

Highly commended
Suzi Mezei, Ancients

Commended
Victoria Thaine, The first snowflake

Short-listed
Stephen Andrew, The dark morning hour
Rory Hudson, Crete
Denise Hughes, Words
Kristen Roberts, The silence
Paul A Škec, machine thinking for thinking machines
Jean Thornton, Remembering Sister Philomena

The Young Adas Short Story Prize 2015

First Prize
Amelia Dunstone, Tranquillo

Runner-up
Rachel Hudson-Jones, The hatching

Highly commended
Alex Ritchie, Petrichor

Commended
Keleyna Nocom, Soldier game

Short-listed
Ruby Cashmore, The little bucket boy
Dinushka Gunasekara, Stitching thread
Michelle Keating, Warrior
Michaela Markovski, Locked in
Olivia Nubile, Dreaming
Natasha Pedersoli, Ignite