BASSETERRE St. Kitts, November 17th 2011 - Enter online at www.commonwealthwriters.org Last few weeks remaining to enter the new Commonwealth Book Prize and Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The prizes are part of a new initiative, Commonwealth Writers, an online hub to inspire, inform and create a community of writers from all over the world. Together with the prizes, Commonwealth Writers unearths, develops and promotes the best new fiction from across the Commonwealth.
Commonwealth Short Story Prize: Wednesday 30 November 2011 (5pm GMT) The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction in English (2000-5000 words).
Regional winners receive £1,000 and the overall winner receives £5,000.
Commonwealth Book Prize: Friday 9 December 2011 (5pm GMT) Awarded for best first book, the Commonwealth Book Prize is open to writers who have had their first novel (full length work of fiction in English) published between 1 January and 31 December 2011. Regional winners receive £2,500 and the overall winner receives £10,000. The winners for both prizes will be announced in June 2012. As one of the Commonwealth Foundation’s culture programmes, Commonwealth Writers works in partnership with international literary organisations, the wider cultural industries and civil society to help writers develop their craft. Commonwealth Writers is a forum where members can debate the future of publishing, get advice from established authors and ask questions of our writer in residence.
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