The Capilano Review is pleased to announce the winner of our 2024 Fall Writing Contest, Dedications, as selected by guest judge Shiv Kotecha. The winning work is “Apokalupsis” by Hannah Strauss.
“Apokalupsis” by Hannah Strauss neither reveals or discloses; it doesn’t hide or try to cover something up either. Darting between dreams and dialog, the understated persons and overheard personages in Strauss’s play-qua-poem revel in the states of life that are just prior to, or maybe concurrent with, their own annunciation: this is love, this is an afternoon off, this is a memory that functions like a mirror, this is an unctuous blend of herbs with fish and fat, “a consumption that enlarges its own eaten objects,” this is the minor and major stuff of commitment, this is the eclipsing act of desire’s coming and going. This is the world, and, as Strauss’s writing so carefully limns, “the world has no periphery.” – Shiv Kotecha
About the winner:
Hannah Azar Strauss (she/they) is a printmaker and writer based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang, currently working on a collaborative residency project with AXENÉO7, tongue breaks, about language laws and translation.
The winning work will be published in Issue 4.5 (Fall 2025). We would like to extend additional congratulations to the runner-up, Sarah Rauch, for “rain from tip of tail.”
