Deadline: 31 January, 2021
The Caine Prize has called for submission of entries for the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing.
The AKO Caine Prize for African Writing is a literature prize awarded to an African writer of a short story published in English.
The prize was launched in 2000 to encourage and highlight the richness and diversity of African writing by bringing it to a wider audience internationally.
The focus on the short story reflects the contemporary development of the African story-telling tradition.
Benefits
- Winning and short-listed authors will be invited to participate in writers’ workshops in Africa, London and elsewhere as resources permit
- There is a cash prize of £10,000 for the winning author and a travel award for each of the short-listed candidates (up to five in all)
- The shortlisted candidates will also receive a prize of £500
Eligibility
- Work must be published
- Submissions should be made by publishers only
- Only fictional work is eligible
- Only one story per author will be considered in any one year
- Length of story must be between 3,000 and 10,000 words
- Submissions should specify which African country the author comes from and the word count
- Six copies of the work in its originally published version are required
To enter and for more information, click here.
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