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(Date Posted:10/01/2009 09:01 AM)
I was an Asia-Pacific Highly Commended Runner-up for the Commonwealth Short Story Competition in 1999. It's a free-to-enter comp and I recommend you give it a try with stories of a local flavour as the point is to share the different cultures of the Commonwealth. Mucho kudos (mixing my languages) to get a prize in this. Details below. Commonwealth Short Story Competition
The Commonwealth Short Story Competition
exists to increase understanding between and appreciation of different
Commonwealth cultures, to showcase the rich diversity of the Commonwealth
and to support rising literary talents.
Enter the 2009 Commonwealth Short
Story Competition
The Commonwealth Short Story Competition is an annual scheme to promote
new creative writing. It was established in 1996. It is funded by the Commonwealth
Foundation and the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association, who work together
to administer the scheme.
The scheme exists to increase understanding and appreciation of Commonwealth
cultures and to promote rising literary talents. Each year 26 winning and
highly commended stories from the different regions of the Commonwealth
are recorded on to CDs and broadcast on radio stations across the Commonwealth.
The winner receives a prize of £2,000 and there are regional prizes of
£500.
How to enter
- The competition is open to all people
who are citizens of a Commonwealth member country.
- There is no age limit or requirement
to write about a particular theme. Entries may be made by both amateur
and professional writers.
- The deadline for entries is 11 May
2009.
The following are the rules of the competition.
- All entries must clearly state the
author's name, date of birth, full contact details and country of citizenship.
- The stories must not exceed 600 words.
Entries over 600 words in length will be disqualified. The word count should
be stated on the entry.
- The stories must be original and should
not have been previously published anywhere in full or part. Entrants must
confirm this in writing as part of the application.
- All entries must be in English.
- A maximum of three stories may be
entered per person.
- Entries must be made by email to e.dcosta@commonwealth.int,
either as an attachment in a mainstream software format or in the body
of the email. All entries must use the subject line 'Commonwealth Short
Story Competition'.
- The competition administrators reserve
the right to disqualify any competition entry which does not meet the conditions
outlined above. No correspondence will be entered into in this regard.
- Entries will not be returned or acknowledged.
- Only winners and highly commended
entrants will be notified. The names of the winners will be published in
the magazines and websites of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association
and the Commonwealth Foundation.
- Winners will retain the copyright
but assign broadcasting rights (including audio on demand and sale on audio
media), publication rights and rights to use the stories for press and
promotional purposes, including via the internet, for ten years to the
programme partners (Commonwealth Broadcasting Association and its members,
and the Commonwealth Foundation). These rights are non-exclusive.
For more information, please go to: http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/culturediversity/shortstory/
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