By our own Staff MACMILLAN Publishers has announced the third biennial Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa - one of the continent's most prestigious and lucrative literary awards.
The competition devoted to previously unpublished fiction b
y African writers, was launched four years ago and Zimbabwe's Yvonne Vera was the inaugural winner with Stone Virgins, a novel about the disturbances and the Midlands in the 1980s.
UK-based Macmillan Education sponsors the prize. It aims to promote and celebrate story writing from all over the continent.
The prize focuses on the reading interests of children and young adults and has two awards for children's literature and teenage fiction and an additional award for the Best New Children's Writer.
"Entrants may select freely from themes that they consider to be of interest and value to their intended readership but all stories should have a strong African flavour," said the organisers in a statement. "Judges will assess each entry on the depth and originality of the work, the quality of the writing and the story's appeal to the audience."
Nationals and naturalised citizens of countries throughout Africa and those born in those countries are eligible to enter the competition.
The deadline for entries is June 30, 2005.
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