EWC felicitates winners
View(s):The English Writers Collective of Sri Lanka (EWC), recently launched the journal Channels 2025, Vol. 31, along with the awards ceremony felicitating the winners of the Creative Writing Competition 2025, Poetry and Prose.
Kinuri Rathnasekara was adjudged the winner in both poetry and prose, the first time in the history of this competition that one person carried away the first prize in both categories.
Pic by Akila Jayawardena
The winners received their prizes from Chief Guest, Savin Edirisinghe, winner of the Gratiaen Prize 2025, at the ceremony held at the ICES under the chairpersonship of Keerthi Wijekulasuriya.
Seen in the picture (from L to R): Kinuri Rathnasekara, 1st Prize Prose; 1st Prize, Poetry; Piyumi Bhagya Nawarathna, 3rd Prize, Poetry; Neloma Wijesinghe, 2nd Prize Poetry; Sirimal Gardiarachchi, shortlist poetry; Savin Edirisinghe, Chief Guest; Niketh Karunaratne, 3rd Prize Prose and Tharindu Jayamanna, 2nd Prize Prose.
Channels 2025 is available at Perera Hussein Publishing House, selected bookshops and from the EWC.
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