Deadline: 31 March 2011
The Largest Short Story Competition in Pakistan.
Entries are now invited for the Life's Too Short Short Story Prize 2010
First Prize: 100,000 rupees
Second Prize: 30,000 rupees
Third Prize: 20,000 rupees
Winners and selected stories shall be published in the Life's Too Short Literary Review 02
Judges:
Musharraf Ali Farooqi.
Author, The Story of a Widow (2009)
Sara Suleri Goodyear
Author, Boys will be Boys (2003)
Mohsin Hamid
Author, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007)
Following the enormous success of the first Life’s Too Short Short Story Prize, which unearthed nine memorable stories of international standards along with discovering the author Jamil Ahmed whose collection of short stories is Pakistan’s next hot literary property, it’s safe to say that the Pakistani short story is alive and well. One of the most versatile and challenging writing forms, requiring the brevity of concentration and spanning the styles of Saki and Manto to John Cheever and Daniyal Mueenuddin, the short story is what you make it.
The life’s too short Short Story Prize was conceived to reinvigorate this oft-neglected genre in Pakistan. With the increasing success of short story collections in the global publishing market, they are becoming big news again. Now we would like people to read yours.
Sponsored by the ZZ & Zohra Ahmed Foundation, entry to this competition is free of charge and the prize money is the most substantial for any such endeavour in Pakistan.
RULES & REGULATIONS
Participants must be of Pakistani origin
The stories may have any theme or subject, but should not exceed 5,000 words
The stories must be original and should not have been previously published anywhere in full or part
All entries must be in English
Only one entry per person
Entries will not be returned or acknowledged
Selected entrants will assign publication rights to Siren Publications.
Only winners will be notified
HOW TO SEND IN YOUR ENTRIES
Submissions must be emailed to lifestooshortentry@gmail.com
Kindly paste the text into the body of the email. Attachments will not be considered.
Each entry must include the name, address, telephone number(s) and email address of the writer
Submission deadline: March 31st, 2011
More information here.
The Largest Short Story Competition in Pakistan.
Entries are now invited for the Life's Too Short Short Story Prize 2010
First Prize: 100,000 rupees
Second Prize: 30,000 rupees
Third Prize: 20,000 rupees
Winners and selected stories shall be published in the Life's Too Short Literary Review 02
Judges:
Musharraf Ali Farooqi.
Author, The Story of a Widow (2009)
Sara Suleri Goodyear
Author, Boys will be Boys (2003)
Mohsin Hamid
Author, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007)
Following the enormous success of the first Life’s Too Short Short Story Prize, which unearthed nine memorable stories of international standards along with discovering the author Jamil Ahmed whose collection of short stories is Pakistan’s next hot literary property, it’s safe to say that the Pakistani short story is alive and well. One of the most versatile and challenging writing forms, requiring the brevity of concentration and spanning the styles of Saki and Manto to John Cheever and Daniyal Mueenuddin, the short story is what you make it.
The life’s too short Short Story Prize was conceived to reinvigorate this oft-neglected genre in Pakistan. With the increasing success of short story collections in the global publishing market, they are becoming big news again. Now we would like people to read yours.
Sponsored by the ZZ & Zohra Ahmed Foundation, entry to this competition is free of charge and the prize money is the most substantial for any such endeavour in Pakistan.
RULES & REGULATIONS
Participants must be of Pakistani origin
The stories may have any theme or subject, but should not exceed 5,000 words
The stories must be original and should not have been previously published anywhere in full or part
All entries must be in English
Only one entry per person
Entries will not be returned or acknowledged
Selected entrants will assign publication rights to Siren Publications.
Only winners will be notified
HOW TO SEND IN YOUR ENTRIES
Submissions must be emailed to lifestooshortentry@gmail.com
Kindly paste the text into the body of the email. Attachments will not be considered.
Each entry must include the name, address, telephone number(s) and email address of the writer
Submission deadline: March 31st, 2011
More information here.
