Call for Entries Worldwide:Desi Writers LoungeShort Story Competition 2013
Deadline: 15 July 2013We at DesiWritersLounge are a not-for profit volunteer-based magazine that promote South Asian writers and their stories and poems. We publish a biannual online literary journal called Papercuts and we are holding a short story competition 2013 offering a grand prize of PKR 50,000 for one winner. The top 3 would be published in our online magazine and receive copies of How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia - the new, critically acclaimed novel by Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid.
DWL SHORT STORY COMPETITION 2013
The DWL annual short story competition aims to encourage fiction writing and promote new writers. Now in its second year, the competition is open to writers of all ages around the world.
The top three entries will be published in the next issue of Papercuts magazine and will receive copies of How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia - the new, critically acclaimed novel by Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid. Of these, one lucky winner will be selected for the 50,000 PKR Dastaan Award*, a new writing prize being offered by DWL in partnership with a benefactor.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Send your entries to the editor with "Short Story" in the subject line.
- The stories may follow any theme, but should not be more than 5,000 words.
- Only one entry per person will be accepted.
- Entries should be in English.
- Please only submit original stories.
- Please do not submit previously published material.
- Please send your entries only as Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) attachments. Each story must have a title.
- Each document should be named clearly with the title of the story plus the name of the author. No page numbering, headers or footers, please. Text must be received in the following format: a single-spaced, left-aligned document with Georgia size-12 font.
THE DASTAAN AWARD (Est. 2013)
Desi Writers Lounge is proud to announce that as of this year it will be offering a prize of 50,000 PKR to one selected winner of its annual Short Story Competition.
The prize has been set up by Mr. Ali Azfar and his wife Afia Aslam to support new writing and can be awarded to a writer based anywhere in the world. The founders are veteran supporters of DWL and have generously chosen to offer the prize in partnership with us.
At present, the award is only available for original, unpublished short stories submitted through the DWL short story competition. The deadline for submissions for this competition is July 15th, 2013. The winner of the Dastaan Award will be notified by September 15th, 2013.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For queries/ submissions: editor.papercuts@desiwriterslounge.net