LITERARY magazine Granta has announced will no longer publish the winning entries of the annual Commonwealth Short Story prize after Trinidad and Tobago writer and 2026 Caribbean category winner Jamir Nazir drew widespread accusations of AI use.

According to an article in The Guardian UK, the magazine said it would no longer be involved in “external publishing partnerships” in which it had no editorial control.

In a statement to the Guardian, Granta said: “The 2026 selection of the regional winners of the Commonwealth prize caused a great deal of controversy, based on the speculation that one or more of the stories may have been at least partially AI-generated, accusations that were strongly rejected by the authors.