Kendeka Prize for African Literature 2021|Up to $1,000 Cash Prize & Publication — Pawners Paper

African writers are hereby invited for the Kendeka Prize for African Literature 2021. This Prize will be awarded for the best piece of unpublished...

 

Kendeka Prize for African Literature 2021|Up to $1,000 Cash Prize & Publication

 

 

 African writers are hereby invited for the Kendeka Prize for African Literature 2021. This Prize will be awarded for the best piece of unpublished short story, either fiction or creative non-fiction.

The prize aims at giving African writers, especially the unpublished a platform on which to showcase their work. Through this platform, more people will have access to their work which will in turn inspire more writing.

Through this Prize, Africans will have an opportunity of not only telling their own stories, but the freedom of telling them, as they are. This is because for a long time, the ‘African Story’ has been told by foreigners, a people who purport to know Africa. They have ended up with a story of Africa, a single story of a hungry, warring, ailing and backward people, a story of a continent full of calamities. This is their new version of the story of the Dark Continent!

This kind of African story is what Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie warns against and calls it ‘The Danger of a Single Story’. She goes on to tell us “That when we reject the single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise”. This is the paradise that Kendeka Prize for African Literature aims at regaining.

 

Kendeka Prize for African Literature 2021
Prizes

The winners of this literary contests will be awarded the following cash prizes:

• First prize : KShs.100,000
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• Second Prize: Kshs 50,000
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• Third Prize: Kshs. 25,000 

Whereas, the remaining two of the five shortlisted stories shall receive KShs 5,000 each.

All longlisted stories shall be published in an anthology titled I Am listening, 2021 Edition. The prize shall be awarded at a ceremony to be held during the Nairobi International Book Fair.

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Eligibility Requirements Kendeka Prize for African Literature 2021

Interested entrants are advised to read the following requirements before submitting for the literary contests.

Entrants must be born in, or are citizens of any African country.

Submission Guidelines

• One entry per writer.

• Manuscripts should be of between 3000 and 5000 words.

• All entries must be in English.

• Entries should be attached in Microsoft Word or Rich Text format, with the title of the story as the file name.

• The first page of the story should include the name of the story and the number of words.

• The entry must be typed in Times New Roman 12 point font with 1.5 line spacing.

• Entries must be sent as attachments to an email.

• The email to which the story is attached must include the legal name of the writer, telephone number, a short Bio, age, and country of residence.

How to Submit

Entrants are to submit their works to the email address below

Send unpublished manuscripts to info@solanopublications.com

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For further enquires on the aforementioned contest, check their official website here

Deadline: March 31, 2021

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