- Organization: The Caine prize
- Type : Competition
- Award: £10,000
- Application Deadline: January 31,2021
The AKO Caine Prize for African Writing is a literature prize awarded to an African writer of a short story published in English. The prize was launched in 2000 to encourage and highlight the richness and diversity of African writing by bringing it to a wider audience internationally. The focus on the short story reflects the contemporary development of the African story-telling tradition.
Prizes
- Winning and short-listed authors will be invited to participate in writers’ workshops in Africa, London, and elsewhere as resources permit.
- There is a cash prize of £10,000 for the winning author and a travel award for each of the short-listed candidates (up to five in all).
- The shortlisted candidates will also receive a Prize of £500.
Eligibility
To be eligible for AKO Caine Prize for African Writing, candidates must have the following qualifications
- Unpublished work is not eligible for the Caine Prize.
- Submissions should be made by publishers only.
- Only fictional work is eligible.
- Only one story per author will be considered in any one year.
- Submissions should specify which African country the author comes from and the word count.
- AKO requires 6 copies of the work in its originally published version.
- If the work is published in a book or journal.
AKO would like to receive at least one copy of the book/journal and five photocopies, but particularly where several stories are submitted from one anthology we would like if possible to receive six copies of the book/journal itself. - If the work is published online, the competition would like to receive six photocopies.
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