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Friends, it’s the very final week of the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize!
Deadine alert! The 2021 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize closes on 31 May. Submit! Prizes include £1,000, publication, mentoring, and more. https://www.wasafiri.<wbr>org/new-writing-prize/ @wasafi<wbr style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>rimag
Enter the 2021 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize
Multiply-award-winning international judging panel comprising Tishani Doshi (Poetry), Hirsh Sawhney (Fiction), and Christie Watson (Life Writing), chaired by renowned novelist and Professor of Creative Writing Andrew Cowan.
Prizes of £1,000 each to be awarded to the best new writers of fiction, life writing, and poetry.
Additional awards of Chapter and Verse/Free Reads mentoring from The Literary Consultancy where eligible.
1:1 mentoring session with The Good Literary Agency’s Nikesh Shukla for each shortlisted writer.
Open to all writers who haven’t yet published a book-length work regardless of age, gender, nationality, or background.
Closing 31 May 2021 at 5pm BST
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.<wbr>org/new-writing-prize/