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Fatherland
“Military folks the world over will tell you theirs is not a business of violence…That’s a lie.”
Museum Correspondence
"Imagine having to ask / members of another society / to look for the stolen and subsequently lost / bodies of your own relatives."
An Interview w/ Shyam Selvadurai
"I don't write for critics and reviewers, nor do I cater to a wider audience (by which one usually means a white audience). My work is always addressed to a very small audience: Sri Lankan readers reading in English."
I Hear Michael Jackson at the Diner
"Molestation did not hurt me as much as shame that surfaces. The point is not whether I experienced pleasure. But will I untie entrapment from trust, self-harm from intimacy."
Spearfinger
"Pearl had grown up knowing and not knowing her mother. It happened sometimes: a child raised by an aunt, by grandparents. The mother hovering at the borders of their lives."
The winners of the 2026 Breakout Prize are Nico Amador in poetry, selected by Cynthia Cruz, and Imogen Osborne in prose, selected by Alexandra Kleeman.