Shauna Andrews has made the 2021 CBC Poetry Prize longlist for witchy.

The winner of the 2021 CBC Poetry Prize will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, have their work published on CBC Books and have the opportunity to attend a two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Four finalists will each receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and have their work published on CBC Books.

The shortlist will be announced on Nov. 18 and the winner will be announced on Nov. 24.

If you're interested in the CBC Literary Prizes, the CBC Nonfiction Prize opens in January and the CBC Poetry Prize opens in April.

Shauna Andrews is a freelance writer with a MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. Her work has been published in Portal Magazine and Incline Magazine. She is a contributing editor for Prism International Magazine. She offers content creation and editing through her brand, Cowgirl Grammar, recently working in collaboration with Clarity Wine Magazine and Build Magazine Okanagan. When she isn't painting paper with words, Andrews runs local backcountry trails alongside her two dogs. She lives on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast.

"Defining moments, women taking shape."

"witchy is part of a series of poems I wrote that reflect on terms that target women, mirrored by personal memories that shaped me as I came of age.

"I found myself going back to my upbringing, my first experiences with men, being loved, being used, being curious and being insulted. It was within these memories that derogatory terms surfaced, creating a situational parallel between growth and insecurity, strength and submission."

she stood on the beach smoking an herbal
cigarette whose amber from its tip dropped
quick and heavy at first then slowly as it turned
to ash and whispered itself away her shoulders
were slumped slightly forward eyes focused on
the ocean

The winner of the 2021 CBC Poetry Prize will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, have their work published on CBC Books and attend a two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity. Four finalists will each receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and have their work published on CBC Books.

The 2022 CBC Nonfiction Prize will open in January. The 2022 CBC Poetry Prize will open in April.