The Short Story Prize
Course(s) Offered: Short Stories
Course Level: Writing contender / competition
Provider: Commonwealth Foundation
Country to Study in: Commonwealth countries
Scholarship Description
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is an annual accolade for unpublished brusk fiction administered together with funded past times the Commonwealth Foundation. Short stories translated into English linguistic communication from other languages, together with approximately selected writers without English linguistic communication translations, are likewise eligible.
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is purpose of the locomote of the Commonwealth Writers (CW) - the cultural first from the Commonwealth Foundation. CW railroad train the arts and crafts of private writers together with prepare communities of emerging voices which tin influence the decision-making processes affecting their lives.
Regional together with Overall winners who emerge have prizes. The Prize aims to position talented writers who volition become on to inspire their local communities. Entries for 2019 CW Contest Open 1st September 2018.
Eligibility
The storey must hold upwardly master copy together with should non conduct maintain been previously published anywhere inwards sum or inwards part. Published locomote is taken to hateful published inwards whatever printed, publicly accessible form, e.g. anthology, magazine, newspaper. It is likewise taken to hateful published online, alongside the exception of personal blogs together with personal websites.
The next eligibility guidelines apply:
Course(s) Offered: Short Stories
Course Level: Writing contender / competition
Provider: Commonwealth Foundation
Country to Study in: Commonwealth countries
Scholarship Description
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is an annual accolade for unpublished brusk fiction administered together with funded past times the Commonwealth Foundation. Short stories translated into English linguistic communication from other languages, together with approximately selected writers without English linguistic communication translations, are likewise eligible.
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is purpose of the locomote of the Commonwealth Writers (CW) - the cultural first from the Commonwealth Foundation. CW railroad train the arts and crafts of private writers together with prepare communities of emerging voices which tin influence the decision-making processes affecting their lives.
Regional together with Overall winners who emerge have prizes. The Prize aims to position talented writers who volition become on to inspire their local communities. Entries for 2019 CW Contest Open 1st September 2018.
Eligibility
The storey must hold upwardly master copy together with should non conduct maintain been previously published anywhere inwards sum or inwards part. Published locomote is taken to hateful published inwards whatever printed, publicly accessible form, e.g. anthology, magazine, newspaper. It is likewise taken to hateful published online, alongside the exception of personal blogs together with personal websites.
The next eligibility guidelines apply:
- Entrants must hold upwardly citizens of a Commonwealth country. The Commonwealth Foundation volition asking verification of citizenship earlier winners are selected. Writers from non-Commonwealth countries (including the Republic of Republic of Ireland together with Zimbabwe) are non eligible.
- For regional purposes, entries volition hold upwardly judged past times province of citizenship. Where the author has dual citizenship, the entry volition hold upwardly judged inwards the portion where the author is permanently resident.
- Entrants must hold upwardly aged eighteen years or over.
- There is no requirement for the author to conduct maintain electrical current residence inwards a Commonwealth country, providing she/he is a citizen of a Commonwealth country.
- All entries volition hold upwardly accepted at the discretion of the Commonwealth Foundation which volition do its judgement, inwards consultation alongside the prize chair equally necessary, inwards ruling on questions of eligibility. The ruling of the chair on questions of eligibility is final, together with no farther correspondence volition hold upwardly entered into.
The concluding alternative volition hold upwardly judged past times an international judging panel; experienced readers volition assist the named judges inwards selecting the long lists.
Eligible groups
Citizens of Commonwealth regions ONLY equally below:
- AFRICA: Botswana, Cameroon, The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia. Overseas Territories: St Helena, Tristan Da Cunha, Ascension Island.
- ASIA: Bangladesh, Negara Brunei Darussalam Darussalam, India, Malaysia, Maldives, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka.
- CANADA together with EUROPE: Canada, Cyprus, Malta, United Kingdom. Overseas Territories: Gibraltar, Falkland Islands.
- CARIBBEAN: Antigua together with Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St Kitts together with Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent together with the Grenadines, Trinidad together with Tobago.
- OVERSEAS TERRITORIES: Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, Turks together with Caicos Islands.
- PACIFIC: Australia, Republic of the Fiji Islands Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu. Overseas Territory: Pitcairn.
Commonwealth Writers (CW) from all regions of the Commonwealth, including:
- Africa,
- Asia,
- Canada together with Europe,
- Caribbean and
- Pacific.
Writing of brusk fiction. The storey must hold upwardly the entrant’s ain work
Number of awards
There volition hold upwardly 5 winners, 1 from each region. One regional winner volition hold upwardly selected equally the overall winner.
Scholarship benefits
The overall winner receives £5,000 together with the remaining 4 regional winners £2,500. If the winning brusk storey is a translation into English, the translator volition have additional prize money: £2,000 for the overall winning storey together with £1,000 for a regional winning story.
Worldwide copyright of each storey remains alongside the writer. The Commonwealth Foundation volition conduct maintain the unrestricted correct to issue the winning stories (the overall winning storey together with the 4 regional winning stories) inwards an anthology together with for promotional purposes.
Method of Application
Please complaint the next rules patch submitting your entry:
- Entries previously submitted to the Commonwealth Short Story Prize are non eligible.
- All entries must hold upwardly inwards English. Translations of brusk stories written inwards languages other than English linguistic communication are eligible if submitted past times the author (not the translator) together with provided the translator is a citizen of a Commonwealth country. Details of the translator must hold upwardly stated on the entry.
- Short stories translated into English linguistic communication from other languages are likewise eligible, together with CW invite writers from Mozambique who write inwards Portuguese, together with writers who write inwards Swahili together with Bengali, together with who produce non conduct maintain an English linguistic communication translation of their story, to submit their stories inwards the master copy language.
- Entries must hold upwardly 2,000 words minimum, 5,000 words maximum.
- Entries should hold upwardly uploaded inwards a PDF document. Please salvage your document equally a PDF together with usage the championship of the storey equally the file name. Please complaint the storey must non hold upwardly saved equally ‘Commonwealth Story’, ‘Short Story’ or whatever other generic title. If it is non possible to salvage the entry equally a PDF document, it may hold upwardly uploaded equally a Microsoft Word document, alongside the file refer inwards the same format equally above. The start page should include the refer of the storey together with the issue of words (and details of the translator if it is a storey written inwards a linguistic communication other than English).
- The author’s details should hold upwardly included inwards the entry form. They must non hold upwardly given anywhere on the uploaded document. All entries are judged anonymously.
- All entries should hold upwardly submitted inwards Arial 12 indicate font together with double trouble spacing.
- There are no restrictions on setting, genre or theme.
- The storey should hold upwardly adult fiction together with must non conduct maintain been written for children alone.
DEADLINES:
Entries opened upwardly 1st September 2018, together with unopen 1 Nov 2018 (12 noon GMT). No entries volition hold upwardly considered if submitted later this date.
PLEASE NOTE:
Commonwealth Writers (CW) inspires, develops together with connects writers together with storytellers inwards a arrive at of disciplines. It builds communities of less-heard voices together with links them to groups which seek to convey well-nigh social change.
Application Deadline: 1 Nov 2018
Open to International Applicants: No (ONLY Commonwealth citizens)
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Related: Commonwealth Scholarships for Developing Commonwealth Countries
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