There is one week left the enter the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words) in English. Regional winners receive £2,500 and the overall winner receives £5,000. Translated entries are also eligible, as are stories written in the original Bengali, Chinese, Greek, Kiswahili, Malay, Portuguese, Samoan, Tamil and Turkish. The competition is free to enter.
Please follow this link to enter: http://www.commonwealthwriters.org/our-projects/the-short-story/
The 2019 international judging panel, chaired by Kittitian-British writer Caryl Phillips, has been announced.
Meet the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize judges
The 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize judging panel will be chaired by Kittitian-British novelist, playwright and essayist Caryl Phillips.
He will be joined on the international judging panel by a judge from each of the five Commonwealth regions – Africa, Asia, Canada and Europe, the Caribbean and the Pacific. They will be: Ugandan novelist and short story writer Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Pakistani writer and journalist Mohammed Hanif, Barbados’s Karen Lord, British short story writer Chris Power, and New Zealander poet, playwright, fiction writer and musician Courtney Sina Meredith.
Each year the judges select five winning writers who share a total prize money of £15,000. The overall winner receives £5,000, one of the highest amounts for an international prize for unpublished short stories. Regional winners receive £2,500.
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