Wasafiri Writing Prize

This truly excellent prize is now inviting entries:

Renowned worldwide for featuring some of the best and brightest new talent, Wasafiri launched an annual New Writing Prize as part of its 25th anniversary celebrations in 2009. Now in its third year, the competition is open to anyone worldwide who has not published a complete book.

We are looking for creative submissions (3000 words max) in one of three categories: Poetry, Fiction or Life Writing. The closing date is 5pm GMT on 29 July 2011.

£300 will be awarded to the winner of each category and their winning entries will be featured in Wasafiri.

This year's distinguished panel of judges are:

Susheila Nasta MBE (Chair) - Editor of Wasafiri and Professor of Modern Literature at the Open University.

Brian Chikwava - Award-winning writer and recipient of the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2004.

Jackie Kay - Celebrated prose writer, poet and playwright, awarded an MBE for services to literature in 2006.

Daljit Nagra - Critically acclaimed poet, winner of the Forward Prize (2007) and ACE Decibel Award (2008).

For an application form, visit the wasafiri website at www.wasafiri.org/prizes.asp
or contact Nisha Obano at n.a.obano@open.ac.uk