Announcing the Bill Burt Award for African Writing

Hi folks,


We've all gone AWOL for a bit. I hope that means life is good and we're just so busy. 


Well, I have another announcement: 


There is once again an new writing competition, this time open to Ghanaian Writers. It is called the Burt Award for African Literature. This year's is the second edition, I believe.

The Award is organised by the Ghana Book Trust and sponsored by CODE, a Canadian NGO, with support from Canadian patron, Bill Burt. 

Three awards will be presented annually:

Gold:  CAD $12,000 

Silver: CAD $6,000 

Bronze: CAD $3,000 

Prizes will be paid in Ghanaian Cedis, so may be affected by currency exchange rates.

I don't yet know when the deadline is, but I understand it is in April 2010. I'll confirm later.

For more information, check out the official announcement on the Ghana Book Trust website.

I hope you're getting out those old Young Adult manuscripts!

Cheers

FWoWA

Penguin Prize for African Writing: Update

Just a quick update for anyone who entered the Penguin Prize for African Writing competition. For those who read the announcement (see below), you’d remember the shortlist was supposed to be announced in April (last month).

It wasn’t

Here’s why.

The competition recorded a whopping 250 entries for fiction and 50 for non-fiction! In light of this larger-than-anticipated response, the assessment period was extended. So, instead of April, the shortlist will be announced in June, 2010. Final prizes are still scheduled for September, 2010.

Mark your calendars.
To read the entire update from Penguin SA, click here.

FWoWA

Penguin Prize for African Writing

I have shared this info in the Yahoo group but for some reason failed to share it here. I apologise for this oversight.

Penguin South Africa is holding a writing competition for African writers. The Penguin Prize for African Writing is open to previously unpublished full-length works (60K-100K words) in two categoires: adult fiction and non-fiction.

The prize in each category will be R50 000 (approx. $ 5,000) and a publishing contract with Penguin Books South Africa, with worldwide distribution via Penguin Group companies.

The deadline for submissions for both categories is 30th of January, 2010. The shortlist will be announced in April 2010 and the final prizes will be awarded in September 2010.

Best of all, there is no entry fee!

For more info and a link to the full criteria, click here.

Good luck to all who plan to enter.

ciao,
Empi