CEO Tony Lankester of the Grahamstown National Arts Festival and his team have agreed to underwrite prize money for a new fiction award under the name Short Sharp Stories. A collection of short fiction will be published annually, and will be launched during that year’s National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
Joanne Hichens is thrilled to announce that the first of these volumes, with prize money attached, will be this collection of crime-thriller fiction stories.
In this collection veteran crime authors will be included as well as new voices, with an original take on things. At least twenty stories will be published in what will be an exciting home-grown collection which shows the diversity of writers in SA. With this latest development, then, the deadline has now been extended to 31 November 2012.
All writers interested in the seamy, nasty, murderous, sometimes all too human side of life may submit their slick, sexy, flirty, dangerous, thrilling, twist-in-the-tale stories set in South Africa. The competition is open to South African citizens. Stories of between 2500 and 5000 words are to be written in English. Independent judges will choose the winning stories after the initial selection process by a panel of writers.
A full set of rules will be published on the website on 30 August 2012. Any queries can be directed to Joanne Hichens and submissions are also to be made via email.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For queries/ submissions: short.sharp.stories@gmail.com
Website: http://shortsharpstories.com/
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