The Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2021 is accepting entries until the end of May. It is open to all writers who haven’t yet published a book-length work regardless of age, gender, nationality, or background.
Prizes of £1,000 will be awarded to the best new writers of fiction, life writing, and poetry. There will be additional awards of Chapter and Verse/Free Reads mentoring from The Literary Consultancy where eligible. 1:1 mentoring session will be given with The Good Literary Agency’s Nikesh Shukla for each shortlisted writer.
Multiple-award-winning international judging panel includes Tishani Doshi (Poetry), Hirsh Sawhney (Fiction), and Christie Watson (Life Writing), chaired by renowned novelist and Professor of Creative Writing Andrew Cowan.
Previous winners of the prize have scored deals for their debuts with with Virago, Verso, Bloomsbury, Peepal Tree Press, and many more. They have gone on to win or be shortlisted for prizes including the Poetry London competition, the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize, The White Review Short Story Prize, Ambit Short Fiction, OCM Bocas Poetry Prize, the Edge Hill Prize, and the Guyana Prize for Literature. The Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize is an invaluable springboard for writers’ careers.
ENTER HERE: https://www.wasafiri.org/new-writing-prize/ .
