Accepting Submissions: sx salon: a small axe literary platform

sx salon: a small axe literary platform

www.smallaxe.net/sxsalon

sx salon: a small axe literary platform invites submissions for Fall 2014 and Winter 2015. sx salon, launched in 2010 as part of the Small Axe Project, is an electronic publication dedicated to literary discussions, interviews with Caribbean literary figures, reviews of new publications (creative and scholarly) related to the Caribbean, and short fiction and poetry by emerging and established Caribbean writers. sx salon also houses the Small Axe Literary Competition, launched in 2009. Visit www.smallaxe.net/sxsalon to view past issues.

sx salon publishes a new issue every three months and invites submissions of the following:

Literary Discussions that engage issues relevant to Caribbean literary studies: 2,500 words. Anticipated discussions for Summer and Fall include “Chinese Caribbean Literature” and “Dub Poetry.”

Book Reviews of recent (published no more than two years preceding the date of submission) creative literary works by Caribbean authors or scholarly works related to Caribbean literary studies: 1,200 words. Please contact kbj@smallaxe.net to query available books.

Interviews with Caribbean literary figures: 2,500 words

Poetry and Short Fiction that engage regional and diasporic Caribbean themes and concerns: up to 2 poems or fiction of up to 4,000 words

Please visit http://smallaxe.net/sxsalon/submissions.php for more detailed guidelines for submissions.

INQUIRIES AND SUBMISSIONS
All inquiries and submissions should be sent electronically to the following addresses:

Literary discussions, book reviews, interviews: Kelly Baker Josephs kbj@smallaxe.net 

Short fiction and poetry: Andrea Shaw andreashaw@smallaxe.net

Accepting Submissions: The Island Review

Seeking submissions now

What do we want?

The editors of The Island Review are seeking submissions of poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, photography and visual art from islanders everywhere, as well as from those whose work is influenced by islands or which explores ideas of islandness.

We’re looking for work that stands out from the crowd: work that is original, daring, witty, wise, radical, intelligent, illuminating or just plain excellent. If you think you fit into any (or all) of those categories, we want to hear from you.

submissions@theislandreview.com

Who can contribute?

Anyone who lives on an island; anyone whose work is about islands, set on an island or inspired by islands; anyone who doesn’t fit quite comfortably into one of these categories but who believes, nevertheless, that their work may be just right for The Island Review.

Please read our ‘coming soon’ page to find out what we mean by the word ‘island’. But bear in mind, also, that we’re always willing to be persuaded.

So, while Australia may be a continental landmass rather than an island proper, if your work seeks somehow to highlight the islandness of that country, we’d probably want to take a look.

On the other hand, the island of Manhattan is probably less likely to interest us than, say, Ellis Island. But that doesn’t mean we won’t be interested.

If you think we should be interested, tell us why. And if you’re not quite sure, just ask.

submissions@theislandreview.com

In addition . . .

The Island Review is preparing to launch in early 2013. If you have any ideas and suggestions for the website – who, what or where would you like to see featured, for instance – we’d very much like to know.

And if you would like to offer us help or assistance of any kind . . . please do.

mail@theislandreview.com

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Call for Poets: The Bridgewater International Poetry Festiva

Call for Poets

The Bridgewater International Poetry Festival

A celebration of global poetry in English hosted at Bridgewater College

January 17-20, 2013

Poets: Submissions accepted through December 28, 2012, or until all sessions full. No international submissions accepted after October 15, 2012, unless visa application is already in process (for countries which require visa). Registration $30; meals available for purchase on and off campus.

Editors and Publishers: you may request table space to meet with prospective authors or to display and sell materials: in addition to registration, half-table $30, whole table $50.

Anthology: selected poems from the festival will be published in an anthology by unboundCONTENT (with permission of the authors), proceeds of which will be used to create financial assistance to international poets to attend future festivals.

Registration form ($30, form available approximately November 12)

Lodging information

Tentative schedule and program draft (available early January)

Travel information and directions

Some of the poets already planning to attend:

Carolyn Atkins, Lexington, VA
Jacqueline Bishop, New York, NY
Jenna Butler, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
John Hoppenthaler, Greenville, NC
Julie Ellinger Hunt, Succasunna, NJ
Geoffrey Philp, Miami, FL
Julian Stannard, Winchester, United Kingdom

Some of the publishers committed to attend

unbound CONTENT
vox poetica

We are accepting proposals from poets for a reading of 20 minutes from their original poetry. A 5-minute question-and-answer period will follow and a 5-minute transition to another room where poets can greet and entertain longer questions, in a reception area for the Poet of the Moment.

Send 3-5 poems to one of the addresses below along with a brief biographical sketch of 200 words or less. Photographs may be attached but are optional.

lit-conf@bridgewater.edu or 

Stan Galloway
Dept. of English
Bridgewater College
402 E. College St.
Bridgewater, VA 22812 USA

Sponsored by

Bridgewater College Department of English

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Closure: Call for Submisions for our new fiction anthology

Internationally renowned and award winning novelist and short story writer, Jacob Ross is editing a new anthology of contemporary Black British fiction. The theme for this exciting new anthology is CLOSURE.
Closure is open to submissions from Black British writers. Our definition is broad. Visit the Peepal Tree Press website or the Inscribe Facebook page for our guidelines, which is simply one of self-identification i.e., if you are a writer ‘of colour’ born, raised, living, or have lived in Britain and ‘self identify’ as Black British, then we welcome your submission.
The anthology will be published by Peepal Tree Press in Autumn 2014, under their ‘Inscribe’ imprint.
FOR FULL DETAILS:
‘Triggers’ to get you started/Guidelines To Submissions/How To Submit Your Story/How To Prepare Your Manuscript/How To Submit Your Story Visit http://www.peepaltreepress.com/whappen_display.asp?id=54
NB: Jacob Ross, Peepal Tree Press’s Associate Fiction Editor will be running Masterclasses around the country well before the submission deadline (between October 2012 and June 2013) to enable writers to develop their craft before submitting a story. You are advised to sign-up for the Inscribe mailing list through the Peepal Tree Press website as spaces will be limited and will be filled on a first come, first served basis.
Visit www.peepaltreepress.com for full details of the Closure anthology ‘Call for submissions’ and to find out how to get a special offer discount on selected short story collections.
If you have any queries regarding the Closure anthology or Inscribe, please visit the Peepal Tree website in the first instance.
If you cannot find the information you request, then please contact, Kadija.inscribe@peepaltreepress.com
To encourage your short story writing, Peepal Tree have a special offer available on 6 of its popular short story collections!
South of South – anthology edited by Nii Parkes Near Open Water – Keith Jardim Geoffrey Philp – Who’s Your Daddy? Music For The Off Key – Courttia Newland The Ladies Are Upstairs – Merle Collins Until Judgement Comes – Opal Palmer Adisa
For orders over £10 you can receive a 20% discount !
Enter the following code [phuHBbf ] at the shopping basket when it prompts for a promotional code.
(Special offer available for a limited period only. Peepal Tree Press reserve the right to replace any of these titles mentioned if one or more is no longer available)
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Accepting Submissions: Caribbean Flash Fiction Collection

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Accepting Submissions: The Caribbean Writer

The Caribbean Writer, the University of the Virgin Islands’ international, refereed, literary journal with a Caribbean focus, announces a submission call for its 26th edition. Issues unique to the Caribbean should be central to work submitted, or the work should reflect a Caribbean heritage, experience or perspective. Besides the usual poetry, short fiction and personal essays, Volume 26 will be dedicated to the environment – nature and ecology.


As we move into the 21st century we have to be mindful of our environment, how we care for it, how we preserve and maintain its pristine beaches, lush mountains and diverse, extraordinary bird, insect and animal life. The Caribbean Writer seeks works that celebrate as well as explore our relationship to nature, how tourism impacts our environment, the role nature plays in our lives, and nature’s rich flora and fauna.


Volume 26 will also celebrate women writers. We welcome interviews, essays and personal narratives on Sylvia Wynter, Olive Senior, Paule Marshall, Claire Harris, Lorna Goodison, Nancy Morejon, Velma Pollard, Erna Bordber, Zee Edgell and any other prominent Caribbean women writers.


Individuals are encouraged to submit poems (five maximum), short stories, personal essays or one-act plays. Only previously unpublished work will be considered. (If self-published, give details.) Include brief biographical information and put all contact information, plus the title of the manuscript, on a separate page. Only the title should appear on the manuscript.


All submissions are eligible for these prizes: The Daily News Prize for best poetry ($300), The Canute A. Brodhurst Prize for best short fiction ($400), The David Hough Literary Prize to a Caribbean author ($500), The Marguerite Cobb McKay Prize to a Virgin Islands author ($200), and The Charlotte & Isidor Paiewonsky Prize for first-time publication ($250).


Send e-mail submissions to: submit@thecaribbeanwriter.org as attached Word or RTF files, or submit via our “Submissions” page at www.thecaribbeanwriter.org. Submissions may also be sent by postal mail to: The Caribbean Writer, University of the Virgin Islands, RR 1, Box 10,000, Kingshill St. Croix, VI 00850-9781. Submission deadline is Nov. 30, 2011.


For more information, visit www.TheCaribbeanWriter.org or call (340) 692-4152.

Accepting Submissions: Commonwealth Foundation

Commonwealth Book Prize
Awarded for best first book, this prize is open to writers who have had their first novel (full length work of fiction) published in 2011. Regional winners receive £2,500 and the overall winner receives £10,000.

Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction. Regional winners receive £1,000 and the overall winner receives £5,000.

Rules and eligibility information will be available from 18 October 2011.

Get in touch: writers@commonwealth.int

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Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Journal of West Indian Literature

Michael A. Bucknor (University of the West Indies-Mona) and Ian Bethell-Bennett (College of the Bahamas) extend an invitation to submit articles for a special issue of the Journal of West Indian Literature for publication in April 2012. The issue will focus on “Masculinities in Caribbean Literature and Culture.”  The date for submitting articles is October 31, 2011, but the co-editors encourage potential contributors to send work ahead of the deadline.

Description: In spite of the growing significance of issues of masculinities in gender and other interdisciplinary studies, publications on the role of masculinities in Caribbean culture have been modest in literary and cultural studies. Curdella Forbes points out that it was not until the appearance of works “such as Belinda Edmondson’s Making Men (1999)… that major discussions of the subject appeared” in Caribbean literary criticism (From Nation to Diaspora 2).  In Anglophone Caribbean cultural studies, it is primarily music that has attracted gendered analyses that focus on masculinities. While there have been some discussions linking masculinities and sexualities, masculinities and education, and masculinities and socialization, and there have been inter-disciplinary collections of essays that engage masculinities, the range of artistic modes that contribute to masculinities discourse is still to be explored.

This Special Issue of the Journal of West Indian Literature invites multiple readings of gender that underscore the role of masculinities in a range of literary and cultural expressions in the Caribbean.  Against the background of studies of the social construction, performance, interrogation and political posturing of hegemonic masculinities, we ask for explorations of some leading questions: Have the depictions of male characters changed over the last five decades or so from Naipaul, Lamming, and Lovelace to such contemporary writers as Junot Díaz, Kei Miller, Anton Nimblett, and what ideological agendas have been served by these depictions? Is there a relationship between migration/diaspora and revised Caribbean masculinities?  Of what significance is the geo-political world of the family, the community, work and leisure to the construction of Caribbean masculinities? To what extent has the role of the Caribbean male been altered by modernity and postmodernity, late-capitalism, late-postcolonialism, globalisation or neo-liberalism? These and similar questions are issues this JWIL publication endeavours to highlight.

Although JWIL is a literary journal, the editors encourage submissions from all areas of cultural production: literature, film, music, visual arts, theatre (including forms of popular culture) and any field of study that examines masculinities in Caribbean cultural and artistic expression.  They also strongly encourage the submission of comparative work between the Anglophone and other linguistic groups of the Caribbean or between different modes of cultural production.

The editors invite papers of 20 to 25 double-spaced typed pages in English and formatted to the MLA style guide. A copy of each paper should be sent by October 31, 2011, by e-mail, to one of the co-editors:

Dr. Ian Bethell-Bennett (School of English Studies, College of the Bahamas, Oakes Field, P. O. Box N 4912, Nassau, The Bahamas) at bethellbennett@gmail.com

Dr. Michael A. Bucknor (Department of Literatures in English, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston 7, Jamaica) at michael.bucknor@uwimona.edu.jm

Painting from Ebony G. Patterson’s series “Faces from the Dancehall”

Via http://repeatingislands.com/2011/09/20/call-for-papers-special-issue-of-the-journal-of-west-indian-literature/

Accepting Submissions: Sliver of Stone

We are a bi-annual, online literary magazine dedicated to the publication of work from both emerging and established poets, writers, and visual artists from all parts of the globe. Authors featured in this issue include Lori Jakiela (nonfiction), Geoffrey Philp (poetry), and Preston Allen (fiction). Interviews with Louis Lowy and Lynne Barrett.

Check out our past contributors, such as Kim Barnes, John Dufresne, and Denise Duhamel (Issue One); Allison Joseph, Matthew Sharpe, and Dan Wakefield (Issue Two); and many talented others. Past interviews with Susan Orlean, Les Standiford, Mark Vonnegut, and Dan Wakefield.

 We're now looking for submissions for our fourth issue!

 http://www.sliverofstone.com/

 DEADLINE: December 15, 2011

Accepting Submissions: The Caribbean Writer

Submission Guidelines

The Caribbean Writer is an international, referred, literary journal with a Caribbean focus. Issues unique to the Caribbean should be central in the work, or the work should reflect a Caribbean heritage, experience, or perspective.

Submit poems, short stories, personal essays, and one-act plays. Maximum length (for short stories and personal essays) is 3500 words or 10 pages. Only previously unpublished work will be accepted. (If previously self-published, give details.)

Now accepting submissions for Volume 26, to be published in 2012.

Deadline: October 15, 2011.

THEME: Nature & Ecology

This 26^th anniversary issue of The Caribbean Writer will be dedicated to the environment: nature and ecology.  As we move into the 21^st century we have to be mindful of our environment, how we care for it, what kinds of expansions (developments) we allow to take place, how do we preserve and maintain its pristine beaches, lush mountains and diverse, extraordinary bird/insect and animal life.

The Caribbean Writer seeks works that celebrate as well as explore our relationship to nature, how tourism and cruise ships impact our environment, the role nature plays in our lives, the names of our trees and flowers, the rich fauna, etc.

TCW will also celebrate women writers and welcome interviews, essays, personal narratives on Sylvia Wynter, Olive Senior, Paule Marshall, Claire Harris, Lorna Goodison, Nancy Morejon, Velma Pollard, Erna Bordber, and Zee Edgell.

Follow this procedure for submissions: List name, address, and title of submission on a separate sheet. Title only on submission. All submissions should be on a separate sheet.  Include brief biographical information and mention previous publications and Caribbean connection, if any. Type (double-spaced) all manuscripts.

All submissions are eligible for these prizes:

The Daily News Prize for best poetry ($300)

The Canute A. Brodhurst Prize for best short fiction ($400)

The David Hough Literary Prize to a Caribbean author ($500)

The Marguerite Cobb McKay Prize to a Virgin Island author ($200)

The Charlotte & Isidor Paiewonsky Prize for first-time publication ($250)

Book Reviews - Persons interested in reviewing books should contact the editor, indicating their areas of expertise. Include sample reviews if possible.

Snail mail submissions to address below or email submissions to submit@thecaribbeanwriter.org as attached Word or RTF files.

Submissions can also be made via “Submissions” page at www.thecaribbeanwriter.org

The Caribbean Writer

University of the Virgin Islands

RR 1, Box 10,000

Kingshill, St. Croix

U.S. Virgin Islands 00850-9781

Phone: 340-692-4152

Fax: 340-692-4026

Email: info@thecaribbeanwriter.org

Website: www.thecaribbeanwriter.org

Accepting Submissions: sx salon

sx salon: a small axe literary platform

www.smallaxe.net/sxsalon

The Small Axe Project has recently launched sx salon: a small axe literary platform, a new electronic publication dedicated to literary discussions, interviews with Caribbean literary figures, reviews of new publications (creative and scholarly) related to the Caribbean, and short fiction and poetry by emerging and established Caribbean writers. sx salon also houses the Small Axe Literary Competition, launched in 2009. 

sx salon represents both a new project and a continuation of the Small Axe Project’s ongoing affirmation of the literary as a critical component of Caribbean cultural production. We envision this space as an open source, easily accessible, online resource for students, teachers and scholars, as well as a forum for academics in the field to consult for announcements related to Caribbean literary studies.

sx salon publishes a new issue every two months  and invites year-round submissions of:

• Literary Discussions that engage issues relevant to Caribbean literary studies: 2,000 – 2,500 words
• Book Reviews of recent (published no more than two years preceding the date of submission) creative literary works by Caribbean authors or scholarly works related to Caribbean literary studies: 1,000 – 1,200 words
• Interviews with Caribbean literary figures: 2,000 – 2,500 words
• Poetry and Short Fiction that engage regional and diasporic Caribbean themes and concerns: up to 2 poems or fiction of up to 4,000 words

Submissions must be accompanied by a short bio approximately 50 words, which should include information about the author’s location (institutional, geographical, etc.), and publications. Manuscripts should not contain any information about the author. Please include name, email address, phone number and, if applicable, institutional affiliation with the accompanying bio

Please visit http://smallaxe.net/sxsalon/submissions.php for more detailed guidelines for submissions.

INQUIRIES AND SUBMISSIONS

ALL inquiries and submissions must to be sent electronically to the following addresses:

• Literary discussions, book reviews, interviews: Kelly Baker Josephs kbj@smallaxe.net 
• Short fiction and poetry: Andrea Shaw andreashaw@smallaxe.net

Accepting Submissions: O, The Oprah Magazine

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Although my blog is livicated to writing from the Caribbean and South Florida, I knew sooner or later that Oprah would make it here. For the April issue of O, which will celebrate National Poetry Month, Maria Shriver, “the first ever guest editor,” has issued a call for “readers to submit their own cherished poems”:

While the issue will include work from well-known poets and favorite poems from celebrities, readers are also invited to join the conversation by submitting their favorite poetry (or original work) to www.oprah.com/poetry. Submissions will be accepted through February 11 with the possibility of appearing in the magazine, which hits newsstands on March 15.

I’m betting “Love After Love” by Derek Walcott is bound to be on the list.

Here’s the direct link for submission:

https://www.oprah.com/ownshow/plug_form.html?plug_id=6998299

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Via Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/01/maria-shriver-o-magazine_n_816826.html

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Accepting Submissions:sx salon: a small axe literary platform

sx salon: a small axe literary platform

www.smallaxe.net/sxsalon

The Small Axe Project has recently launched sx salon: a small axe literary platform, a new electronic publication dedicated to literary discussions, interviews with Caribbean literary figures, reviews of new publications (creative and scholarly) related to the Caribbean, and short fiction and poetry by emerging and established Caribbean writers. sx salon also houses the Small Axe Literary Competition, launched in 2009. 

sx salon represents both a new project and a continuation of the Small Axe Project’s ongoing affirmation of the literary as a critical component of Caribbean cultural production. We envision this space as an open source, easily accessible, online resource for students, teachers and scholars, as well as a forum for academics in the field to consult for announcements related to Caribbean literary studies.

sx salon publishes a new issue every two months  and invites year-round submissions of:

• Literary Discussions that engage issues relevant to Caribbean literary studies: 2,000 – 2,500 words
• Book Reviews of recent (published no more than two years preceding the date of submission) creative literary works by Caribbean authors or scholarly works related to Caribbean literary studies: 1,000 – 1,200 words
• Interviews with Caribbean literary figures: 2,000 – 2,500 words
• Poetry and Short Fiction that engage regional and diasporic Caribbean themes and concerns: up to 2 poems or fiction of up to 4,000 words

Submissions must be accompanied by a short bio approximately 50 words, which should include information about the author’s location (institutional, geographical, etc.), and publications. Manuscripts should not contain any information about the author. Please include name, email address, phone number and, if applicable, institutional affiliation with the accompanying bio

Please visit http://smallaxe.net/sxsalon/submissions.php for more detailed guidelines for submissions.

INQUIRIES AND SUBMISSIONS

ALL inquiries and submissions must to be sent electronically to the following addresses:

• Literary discussions, book reviews, interviews: Kelly Baker Josephs kbj@smallaxe.net 
• Short fiction and poetry: Andrea Shaw andreashaw@smallaxe.net

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Accepting Submissions: sx salon: a small axe literary platform

sx salon: a small axe literary platform

www.smallaxe.net/sxsalon

The Small Axe Project has recently launched sx salon: a small axe literary platform, a new electronic publication dedicated to literary discussions, interviews with Caribbean literary figures, reviews of new publications (creative and scholarly) related to the Caribbean, and short fiction and poetry by emerging and established Caribbean writers. sx salon also houses the Small Axe Literary Competition, launched in 2009.

sx salon represents both a new project and a continuation of the Small Axe Project’s ongoing affirmation of the literary as a critical component of Caribbean cultural production. We envision this space as an open source, easily accessible, online resource for students, teachers and scholars, as well as a forum for academics in the field to consult for announcements related to Caribbean literary studies.

sx salon publishes a new issue every two months  and invites year-round submissions of:

• Literary Discussions that engage issues relevant to Caribbean literary studies: 2,000 – 2,500 words
• Book Reviews of recent (published no more than two years preceding the date of submission) creative literary works by Caribbean authors or scholarly works related to Caribbean literary studies: 1,000 – 1,200 words
• Interviews with Caribbean literary figures: 2,000 – 2,500 words
• Poetry and Short Fiction that engage regional and diasporic Caribbean themes and concerns: up to 2 poems or fiction of up to 4,000 words

Submissions must be accompanied by a short bio approximately 50 words, which should include information about the author’s location (institutional, geographical, etc.), and publications. Manuscripts should not contain any information about the author. Please include name, email address, phone number and, if applicable, institutional affiliation with the accompanying bio

Please visit http://smallaxe.net/sxsalon/submissions.php for more detailed guidelines for submissions.

INQUIRIES AND SUBMISSIONS

ALL inquiries and submissions must to be sent electronically to the following addresses:

• Literary discussions, book reviews, interviews: Kelly Baker Josephs kbj@smallaxe.net
• Short fiction and poetry: Andrea Shaw andreashaw@smallaxe.net

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Accepting Submissions: Pearson Publishing

Via Caribbean Book Blog:


The Book Industry Association of Jamaica (BIAJ) has announced that Pearson Publishing is inviting Caribbean authors to submit manuscripts for its Caribbean Writers Series. Authors may submit novels, plays and short stories for consideration for the general list. Manuscripts should be sent by email, in Microsoft Word. Authors may submit the first chapter or the manuscript in its entirety.


The manuscript should be accompanied by a 2-page cover letter including a synopsis, background information on the author’s reason for writing the story, any relevant social context, a short biography and resume, and information on the author’s published work and any writing awards. The story should be suitable for readers age 14-16. Interested authors are advised to look at Pearson’s other titles. Pearson is also accepting submissions for books planned for the primary school curriculum. Writers interested in submitting pieces for the primary curriculum are invited to write for more details.


Interested authors should contact Rachel Brown at rachel.brown@pearson.com.

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BBC International Playwriting Competition

By Gbenga Awomodu

Erin Browne of the United States and Efo Kodjo Mawugbe from Ghana were 2010's winners

Have you heard? The BBC wants your drama! The BBC World Service has launched a global search for two of the world’s best new radioplays with the International Playwriting Competition. Two lucky writers will win the opportunity to have their plays broadcast on the World Service. Here’s a fantastic opportunity for you to write a 60 minute play for radio and win cash prize as well as global recognition for your work.

What it’s all about.
The biennial International Radio Playwriting Competition is run by the BBC World Service and the British Council and is now in its twelfth year.

It is a competition for anyone resident outside Britain, to write a 60-minute radio drama for up to six characters.

There are two categories: one for writers with English as their first language and one for writers with English as their second language.

The two winners travel to London and see their play made into a full radio production, which will then be broadcast on the BBC World Service. They will also each receive a £2,500 prize and there are also prizes for the runners-up.

The play must be in English, unpublished and must not have been previously produced in any medium. Whether you’re experienced, new, or somewhere in between, the BBC wants to hear from you.

Just check the Rules and How to Enter sections to find out more about sending your play.

And the winners get….

Once again, there are two first prizes: for the best play by a writer with English as their first language and for the best play by a writer with English as their second language.

These two winners will each receive £2500 and a trip to London to see their play being recorded for broadcast on BBC World Service in the World Drama slot.

•£2500 sterling for the overall winning playwright of the best play written with English as a first language and a trip to London to see the play being recorded and to attend a prize-giving evening.

•£2500 sterling for the overall winning playwright of the best play written with English as a second language and a trip to London to see the play being recorded and to attend a prizegiving evening.

•A prize of a digital or short wave radio for the best radio play to be written from each of the following geographical areas: The Americas; Europe; Africa and the Middle East; South Asia; Russia and the Caucasus; Asia and Pacific.

•BBC goodie bags for all writers whose plays reach the judges’ final shortlist.

Deadline: 31 March 2011.

Eligibility: Entry is only open to anyone who is over the age of 16 as at 31 March 2011 who is not normally a resident of the UK.

Follow the link below for more tips and details. Get your pen and keyboard and start writing already!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specialreports/radioplay_2008.shtml

Source: BBC World Service

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