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\"Vaye<\/a><\/p>\n

We are delighted to announce that Claire Vaye Watkins has won the\u00a0Dylan Thomas Prize<\/a>, awarded to the best work of literature published by an author under the age of thirty, for her debut short story collection Battleborn<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read an excerpt of Watkins’s story \u201cGold Mine,\u201d from issue 195, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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