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The Koffi Addo Writivism Prize for Inventive Non-Fiction is an annual award for ingenious non-fiction by means of rising African writers administered by means of the Middle for African Cultural Excellence (CACE) and backed by means of the Koffi Addo circle of relatives.

Advantages:

• The winner of the prize can be awarded $500 (USD) money and is also thought to be for a one-month writing residency at a college in an African nation.
• The winner can be required to supply a whole first draft of a publishable ingenious nonfiction manuscript ahead of the residency.
• The winner, on taking over the residency commits to publishing the manuscript edited in the course of the residency, below the Writivism Collection with a CACE spouse writer.

Necessities:

• Entrants will have to be unpublished writers (unpublished right here manner those that have no longer had a e-book printed), resident in an African nation. Questions of eligibility can be resolved by means of the CACE management and their determination is ultimate.
• Entries will have to be submitted on-line, by means of emailing them to information@writivism.com as attachments (no longer within the frame of the e-mail), obviously labelled within the matter: 2018 Koffi Addo Prize
• The author will have to come with within the frame of the e-mail, different details about him/her i.e nation of place of dwelling, age, prison identify and pen identify (the place acceptable) and phone touch.
• Just one access in step with author is also submitted for the Koffi Addo Writivism Prize for Inventive Nonfiction. The tale will have to be authentic and up to now unpublished in any shape (together with at the author’s non-public weblog).
• All entries can be checked robotically for plagiarism the usage of digital device. Entries discovered to be plagiarized can be disqualified with out notification to the author.
• All entries will have to be in English, and a pair of,500 – three,500 phrases lengthy.
• Entries must be hooked up in Microsoft Phrase or Wealthy Textual content codecs, with the identify of the tale because the record identify. The primary web page of the tale must come with the identify of the tale and the collection of phrases.
• The access will have to be typed in Instances New Roman 12 level font and 1.five line spacing. No point out must be made at the id of the author within the access.
• Entrants agree as a situation of access that CACE would possibly publicize the truth that a tale has been entered or shortlisted for the Prize. International copyright of every tale stays with the author. CACE may have the unrestricted proper to post and translate the short-listed tales in an anthology and in other places.
• The author shall no longer post the shortlisted tale in other places, till ten years from the primary date of the unique newsletter by means of CACE.
• Longlisted writers will edit their tales with a commissioned editor previous to newsletter in the once a year anthology. Failure to cooperate with the editorial workforce will result in exclusion of the tale from the anthology.
• Shortlisted writers would possibly be invited to wait the once a year Writivism Competition in Kampala, Uganda, in August 2018.

For Extra Data:

Discuss with the Reliable Webpage of the 2018 Koffi Addo Writivism Prize for Inventive Non Fiction