Calling all publishers! Submit your books to a new literary award for fiction, sponsored by the Financial Times and OppenheimerFunds.
The FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Award is worth $40 000 US to the winner, and residents or passport holders from most African countries are eligible.
The deadline for submissions is 10 April; here’s more on the rules of entry:
The fiction award will be presented to a published work of fiction in English or published in English translation. The books must be a minimum of 20,000 words long and be written by a national or passport holder of one of the eligible countries of Africa and the Middle East. Submissions are invited from all global publishers. Self-published works will not be accepted for entry. The works must be published in print or digital form, or both, between 1 January 2014 and 30 September 2015.
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