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2017 commonwealth short story prize for writers competition

The 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize will open for entries on 1st September 2016.

The Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words) in English written by a citizen of a Commonwealth country.

Regional winners receive £2,500 and the overall winner receives £5,000.

Short stories translated into English from other languages are also eligible, and we invite writers from Mozambique who write in Portuguese, and writers who write in Swahili and Bengali, and who do not have an English translation of their story, to submit their stories in the original language.


Entries Close 1st November 2016


official website: The Short Story | Commonwealth Writers http://www.commonwealthwriters.org/our-projects/the-short-story/
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