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Deadline Extended to 17th September 2012
Date: 16/07/2012
The deadline for the Kwani? Manuscript Project, Kwani Trust's new literary prize for African writing, has been extended. You now have until 17th September 2012 to submit your unpublished fiction manuscript and be in with a chance of winning both cash prizes and international publication for your novel.
In addition, Kwani Trust will be launching a series of essays by leading African writers on writing. Including contributions from Aminatta Forna, Leila Aboulela, Ellen Banda-Aaku and Helon Habila, the essays will offer advice, support and inspiration for developing your novel manuscript over the next 2 months.
Ellah Allfrey, Deputy Editor of Granta, on the Kwani? Manuscript Project
Date: 05/07/2012
'Kwani Trust's new prize for an unpublished, full-length of work by an African writer is just the kind of innovative challenge that one would expect from a literary enterprise that has upped the game nationally, regionally and beyond the continent.'
Ellah Allfrey is Deputy Editor of Granta, an international literary journal of new writing. Before joining Granta, she was Senior Editor at Jonathan Cape, Random House where she continued to publish history as well as introducing a list of young African writers including Brian Chikwava, Dinaw Mengestu and Peter Akinti. She sits on the board of Writers' Centre Norwich and the Council of the Caine Prize for African Writing. A Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, Allfrey was awarded an OBE in 2011 for services to the publishing industry
Eligible word count reduced to 45,000 words
Date: 30/05/2012
Responding to your feedback, we've decided to lower the eligible word count of our new prize for unpublished manuscripts to 45,000 words. We've realized too many great novels have been published that are below 60,000 words - from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby to Albert Camus's L'Etranger to Mariama Bâ's So Long a Letter. We don't want to miss out on yours!
Manuscripts between 45,000 and 120,000 words are now eligible for the Kwani? Manuscript Project.
Binyavanga Wainaina speaks about the Kwani? Manuscript Project
Date: 04/05/2012
'For the past few years, a new kind of writing talent has emerged out of the continent. In their twenties and thirties, and writing in English - these writers are not returning diasporas, they were born and bred on the continent. African writers are all over the world - but the most exciting work I have seen is coming from those of the information age. Original in style, these writers do not see themselves as being distant from anywhere. They speak to the world. This competition speaks to their confidence, and the confidence of a new generation of African writers, wherever they are.'
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