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Young Person of the Month

Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2017 (Prize Money up

to 15,000)
Posted by Jude Ogar On September 01, 2016 0 Comment

Deadline: November 1, 2016

Submit entriesfor the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2017. The
Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short ction (2,000
5,000 words) in English written by a citizen of aCommonwealth
country.The Commonwealth Short Story Prize brings stories from
new and emerging voices, often from countries with little or no
publishing infrastructure, to the attention of an international

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The international judging panel comprises one judge from each of the
ve regions Africa, Asia, Canada and Europe, the Caribbean and the

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Pacic. Please note that while the entries will be judged regionally, all
judges will read and deliberate on entries from all regions.Entry is always free and stories translated into English are

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Five winning writers from ve dierent Commonwealth regions share a total prize money of 15,000. The
overall winner receives 5,000, one of the highest amounts for an international short story prize open to
unpublished writers. Regional winners receive 2,500.
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Short stories translated into English from other languages are also eligible;
Writers from Mozambique who write in Portuguese, and writers who write in Samoan, Swahili and Bengali,
and who do not have an English translation of their story can submit their stories in the original language.

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