ARE YOU A GOOD SCRIPTWRITER? Commonwealth Writers inspires writers, storytellers and a range of cultural practitioners to work for social change. It builds communities of less heard and emerging voices to influence, directly and indirectly, the decision making processes which affect their lives. Desi Writers Lounge Short Story Competition (15-7-2013) Desi Writers Lounge and Papercuts present their 2013 Short Story Competition. Desi Writers Lounge is always on the look-out for talented writers to encourage and promote. Their short story competition, now in its second year, aims to unearth new fiction talent from all around the world. Three winners will receive a copy of How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, the new novel by Mohsin Hamid, and one of these winners will be selected for the Dastaan Award – a new prize that DWL is offering in partnership with a benefactor. The winning entries will also get published in the next issue of Papercuts. Submission Guidelines The stories may follow any theme, but should not be more than 5,000 words. Only one entry per person will be accepted. Entries should be in English. Please only submit original stories. Please do not submit previously published material. Please send your entries only as Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) attachments. Each story must have a title. Each document should be named clearly with the title of the story plus the name of the author. No page numbering, headers or footers, please. Text must be received in the following format: a single-spaced, left-aligned document with Georgia size-12 font. Deadline July 15, 2013 More information can be found here: desiwriterslounge.net/ papercuts/contests Please send your entries to editor.papercuts@ desiwriterslounge.net with “Short Story” in the subject line.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 12:50:20 +0000
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