The 2022 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest Longlist

From the Editor’s Desk

The New Quarterly is pleased to announce the 2022 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest Longlist!

The longlisted writers and their essays are as follows:

2022 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest Longlist

  • “Scenes from a Frenchip: my tongue is a home but they won’t let me stay” by sabrien amrov
  • “Archival Record AN1940s” by Kate Bird
  • “The Seventh Pillar” by Campion Carruthers
  • “Sonnet: galeko” by Hilary Fair
  • “Goodbye To All That” by Ferrukh Faruqui
  • “La Traviata: Aria of the Fallen Woman” by Genni Gunn
  • “Sleeping with Hannah” by Nancy Huggett
  • “Westbound” by Amy Kaler
  • “The Sum of its Parts” by Allison LaSorda
  • “The Garden, Echoes” by Vivian Li
  • “Amplitude and Ibogaine” by Kathy Page
  •  “The Uses of Sitting and Standing” by Nicholas Pimlott
  • “Soft Pink” by Sandy Pool
  • “Rearranged by Water” by Julie Salverson
  • “Bird Keeper” by Suzanne Stewart
  • “The Hours, Emma Lake, June 2009” by Leona Theis
  • “Watching White Women” by Bageshree Vaze
  • “The Plague Came With No Directions” by thom vernon