Deadline: November 1, 2023.

The 2024 Prize is open for submissions until 1 November 2023.

The prize is free to enter and open to any citizen of a Commonwealth country aged 18 and over. It is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words). The international judging panel will select a shortlist of around twenty stories, from which five regional winners are chosen.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

1. The prize is open to all Commonwealth citizens aged 18 and over.
2. The story must be between 2,000 and 5,000 words
3. Full list of Commonwealth countries listed n their website.
4. The prize is only open to short fiction, but it can be in any fiction genre–science fiction, speculative fiction, historical fiction, crime, romance, literary fiction–and you may write about any subject you wish.
5. Submissions are accepted in Bengali, Chinese, Creole, English, French, Greek, Malay, Maltese, Portuguese, Samoan, Swahili, Tamil, and Turkish. Stories that have been translated into English from any language are also accepted and the translator of any winning story receives additional prize money.
6. Your submission must be unpublished in any print or online publication, with the exception of personal websites.

BENEFITS

1. The regional winners receive £2,500 and the overall winner receives a total of £5,000.
2. The winning stories are published online by Granta and in a special print collection by Paper + Ink.
3. The shortlisted stories are published in adda, the online literary magazine of the Commonwealth Foundation.

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