WRITING
Queer Elegies and Climate Mourning: Marc Swanson’s Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco: Winner of the 2022 Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing
art criticism + essay writing
2023
The Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing
Gulf Coast is proud to announce the winner of the 2022 Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing, Lauren Levato Coyne, for their essay "Queer Elegies and Climate Mourning: Marc Swanson's Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco"
In its sixth year, the Toni Beauchamp Prize seeks to support young and mid-career art writers who combine scholarship and journalism, a unique voice, and literary excellence.
Juror Legacy Russell, on the winner:
A thoughtful piece that embeds tender and timely questions on the intersections of mourning and desire, and where each finds its place through radical queer work.
READ THE FULL ESSAY HERE: gulfcoastmag.org/journal/35.1-winter/sp…