Educational publisher Maskew Miller Longman is calling for entries for its 2011 writing competition, which will be for youth fiction.
This high-calibre award not only promotes literature by giving exposure to writers, it also supports it with prize money: R10 000 for the winners, and R5 000 for the runners up. Given that the competition is set to make awards in all eleven official languages, that’s over R150 000 in literary prize money up for grabs.
Entries close in April 2010 and submissions must comply with the rules set out here.
Get ready and get writing! More info from the press release:
Maskew Miller Longman calls for youth novel entries for its annual literature awards competition
Leading South African educational publisher, Maskew Miller Longman, is calling for entries for its 2011 Literature Awards, which will be for youth novels.
Each year Maskew Miller Longman runs an award for writing in all South Africa’s official languages. The award aims to stimulate the further development of literature in all the eleven official South African languages. This is the only competition that gives equal weighting to all eleven official languages.
The annual awards have gone from strength to strength, with several hundred entries each year. The winners of the 2010 Literature Awards for Children’s Stories will be announced at the Cape Town Book Fair in 2010.
The calibre of the competition was underscored by the fact that several finalists of the Maskew Miller Longman Literature Awards have also gone on to win MNet Awards.
The 2011 Maskew Miller Longman Literature Award: Youth Novels closes on the 30 April 2010 and the winners will be announced in June 2011.
The winner and runners-up in each category respectively receive R10 000 and R5 000 each. All winning entries will be published. Entries must be accompanied by an entry form available from Brenda Alexander at (021) 532 6000 / balexander@mml.co.za or they can be downloaded from our website (www.mml.co.za).
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