PUB: Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2011

Call for entries for the Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2011

Renowned worldwide for featuring some of the best and brightest new talent, Wasafiri launched an annual New Writing Prize as part of its 25th anniversary celebrations in 2009. Now in its third year the competition is open to anyone worldwide who has not published a complete book.

 

We are looking for creative submissions
in one of three categories: Poetry, Fiction or Life Writing.

 

Simply fill in the form and send it to us with your entry and a fee of UK Sterling £6.00 if entering one category, £10.00 for two and £15.00 for three categories (see terms and conditions). Payment may be made by paypal.

 

 

The closing date is 5pm GMT on 29 July 2011. 
Entrants who are visually impaired or who are
prevented from typing through disability can enter work on audio CD.

 

Download the Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2011 Application Form and let the words flow!

 

Judges

 

Susheila Nasta MBE (Chair) Editor
of Wasafiri and Professor
of Modern Literature
at the Open University
Jackie Kay
Celebrated prose writer,
poet and playwright, awarded an MBE for services to literature in 2006
Brian Chikwava
Award-winning writer
and recipient of the
Caine Prize for
African Writing in 2004
Daljit Nagra
Critically acclaimed poet,
winner of the Forward Prize (2007) and ACE Decibel Award (2008)

 

 

 

via wasafiri.org