Hostwriter is pleased to announce the finalists for this year’s Hostwriter Prize awards. This year, we received over 50 applications, and the shortlist has been sent to an external jury for evaluation. We are looking forward to announcing this year’s winners in December.
Story Prize Shortlist 2023
- Facing headwinds at home, Europe and Japan are pushing waste-to-energy technology across South East Asia – by Nithin Coca, Alexandra Buba, Geela Garcia and Nicha Wachpanich
- Scandal of Syria’s stolen homes: fraudsters use courts to legitimise thefts from refugees by Kaamil Ahmed, Mohammad Bassiki and Ali Al Ibrahim
- Greek Captagon Bust Leads to a Criminal Gang and the Port at the Heart of Syria’s Booming New Drug Trade by Ahmed Eid Ashour, Sameh Ellaboudy, and Maher Shaeri (OCCRP) and Cecilia Anesi (IrpiMedia)
- Disability in Times of War by Maria Dios, Juli Simond, Jeremy Bocquet, Anna Romandash and Alexander Damiano Ricci
- Caught in the India-Pakistan Crossfire by Umar Bacha and Puja Bhattacharjee
- In Their Fight For Space, Female Vendors Deal With Everyday Violence by Shreya Raman and Sanskrita Bharadwaj
- Kenya, Nigeria | The outrage of collapsing buildings by Omolabake Fasogbon and Raquel Muigai
- Oil-spill devastation in Nigeria — and how the EU can fix it by Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi, Kevin Kevin, and Raluca Besliu
- “Not the kind of life a human being should live” by Freddie Clayton, Sonja Smith and Margaret Courtney-Clarke
- World’s most promising anti-greenwashing tool scuttled by Christiana Mauro and Kacper Szulecki
Pitch Prize shortlist 2023
For Pitch Prize Finalists, we share only a working title that offers a general topic overview in order to protect the story ideas of the prize applicants.
- Indigenous seeds and local knowledge of Hmong People in the northern part of Vietnam by Alex Nguyen and Tuaam Khaab
- The forgotten challenges faced by cities rebuilt after WW2 by Maria Dybcio and Lena Bäunker
- Vulnerability of female migrant workers in Southeast Asia to the death penalty by Fadiyah Alaidrus and Mavic Conde
- Corruption and negligence that disregards seismic codes at the cost of human lives and environmental spillovers in Turkey, Italy and Romania by Gabriele Di Donfrancesco, Sofia Cherici and Oana Moisil
- What is being done to tackle the prevention of sustainable water management by Teseo La Marca, Michele Curel, Pierluigi Bizzini and Emerson Mendoza Ayala
- The never-ending cycle of arrests of indigenous fisherfolk in quest of food in India and Pakistan by Abhijeet Gurjar and Faisal Rehman
- Which policies can support a terrace farming comeback? by Guia Baggi and Davide Mancini
- Impact of the ground-breaking implementations of the four-day work week in Belgium and the UK by Raluca Besliu and Mélanie Gouby
- Why does abortion tourism still exist in Europe? by Sabrina Faramarzi and Natasha Mellersh