(Kaieteur News) – The Jury for the Guyana Prize for Literature has released the Shortlist in the Drama Category. The winner of the Prize for Drama will be announced on August 7, 2026.

A release from the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport, the 2025 drama shortlist Darren McAlmont’s Return Passage, Stephan Estwick,’s River, Blood, Son, Seeta Shah, Roath’s Kisna and Mosa Telford’s The Bell and the Bones. The release included citation of each entry.

The statement explained that Return Passage explores the experience of Afro-Guyanese immigrants in Canada. The story follows a couple leaving their 9 year old daughter behind with her grandmother, facing the frigid reality of Canadian life, while keeping a line of hope and promises between their actual and absent lives.