The Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2021

OPPORTUNITY DETAILS

Total reward

0 $

Association

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Deadline

01 Nov 2020

Study level

Undergraduate

Opportunity type

Competitions

Opportunity funding

Full funding

Eligible Countries

This opportunity is destined for all countries

Eligible Region

All Regions

Applications call for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2021

The competition is free to enter and with a global reach across five continents, the Prize seeks out talented writers and brings stories from new and emerging voices to an international audience. Stories often come from countries with little or no publishing infrastructure and from places that are marked by geographical, geopolitical or economic isolation.

Details

The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is an annual award for unpublished short fiction administered and funded by the Commonwealth Foundation. Basically, it is run by Commonwealth Writers, the cultural initiative of the Commonwealth Foundation. Moreover, the prize covers the Commonwealth regions of Africa, Asia, Canada, and Europe, Caribbean, and the Pacific.

Prizes

The Prize attracts between 5,000 and 6,000 entries each year from almost all of the 54 countries of the Commonwealth. It is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction.

There will be five winners, one from each region. One regional winner will be selected as the overall winner. The overall winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize will receive £5,000 and the remaining four regional winners £2,500. If the winning short story is a translation into English, the translator will receive additional prize money.