Essay plug

Shameless plug department: As I mentioned here before, I won this year's Outlook/Picador nonfiction competition. Outlook magazine has just published my essay and the two runners up (Tishani Doshi and Geralyn Pinto) in a booklet that's enclosed with the current issue of Outlook (dated May 16). Those of you who can lay your hands on a copy of Outlook, please read the booklet and I'd love to hear your comments.

All five shortlisted essays will be up on the Outlook website in a few days (well, so I'm told), and I will link to them from here. The shortlist is:

• Ankush Saikia, Spotting Veron
  
• Samanth Subramanian, In Search of the Razor's Edge. Samanth has things to say about A writer and his web-blahg.
  
• Geralyn Pinto, Re-Routing
  
• Tishani Doshi, Excerpts from the Journal of a Delusional Widow
  
• Me, Ride Across the River