McWatt’s ‘Journey’ reaches Guyana Prize shortlists

Mark McWatt

Mark McWatt’s poetry collection, The Journey to Le Repentir, has been shortlisted for the Guyana Prize for Literature Best Book of Poetry Award and the inaugural Guyana Prize for Literature Caribbean Award in Poetry.

McWatt is the only writer to feature on both the national and regional shortlists for the awards, which will be presented at a ceremony next Thursday. He is a previous Guyana Prize winner for a previous poetry collection, The Language of Eldorado, as well as his short story collection, Suspended Sentences.

According to a release from the Guyana Prize for Literature Management Committee, the jury for the Guyana Prize for Literature 2010 met at the end of July and decided on the shortlist of