Call for submissions | 2018 African Writers Award
Submissions
are invited from writers in Africa for the 2018 African Writers Award. The
African Writers Development Trust (AWDT) annually organizes African Writers
Award as part of the African Writers Conference (AWC). The conference annually
brings writers of African descent together to network, create opportunities and
sustain a conversation that would press forward the shared interests of African
writers.
The
theme of this year’s conference, slated to hold in Abuja later this year, is “Re-imagining African Literature: New
Voices, New Narratives in the Fight for the Girl Child”.
Therefore,
writers can send in their flash fiction, short stories, children stories, or
poems.
The maximum length words:
The
maximum length words for submissions is:
Maximum
of three hundred (300) words for flash
fiction.
Maximum
of one thousand, five hundred (1,500) words for children’s stories.
Illustrations
could be sent too, but allowed.
Two
thousand, five hundred (2,500) words to five
thousand (5,000) words for short stories.
Poems should
be maximum of thirty (30) lines.
Rule:
Submissions
must be in English.
Entries
ought not have been published anywhere.
All
entries must be themed-based.
Entrants
are allowed to make only one entry (one entry per writer).
Submission
must include a bio and picture, including links to social media pages,
websites, etc.
HOW ENTER:
Entrants
should upload their works on the page of African Writers Conference. Click here.
PRIZES:
Four African
writers would be expected to grab the cash prizes, which would be presented at
the 2018 African Writers Conference dinner and awards night on December 1,
2018.
JUDGES:
Nyashadzashe
Chikumbu, Edith Knight Magak, Kolabomi Adeko, Nahida Esmail, and Anthony Onugba
shall judge this year’s submissions.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS
The
deadline for entry submission is October
13, 2018.
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