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Home»Search by Region»Africa»Dinaane Debut Fiction Award 2025 (R35,000 prize)

Dinaane Debut Fiction Award 2025 (R35,000 prize)

Jude OgarOctober 21, 20243 Mins Read
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Deadline: October 22, 2024

Applications are invited for the Dinaane Debut Fiction Award 2025. Jacana Media publishes authors and not just books. With this award, they focus on debut writers, looking to encourage new writing talent. Sometimes wonderful, illuminating and challenging fiction doesn’t get published because publishers are more and more constrained by market forces.

Fiction is the one genre where the truths about our society are documented in an uncensored manner. Encouraging and publishing the best of burgeoning South African writers is one way of ensuring storytelling remains a way to understand ourselves and one another.

Benefits

  • The winner is awarded R35,000 and a publishing contract from Jacana Media.

Eligibility

  • Although the entries must be primarily in English, they welcome innovative writing and the exploration of languages, capturing the multilingual landscape in the continent and the world.
  • You may only enter once; all subsequent entries after the first submission will be disqualified.
  • Only permanent residents or citizens of South Africa and other southern African countries may apply.
  • Authors must not have had a work of fiction (novel or novella) formally published prior to the award. Self-published authors may apply, provided that the work was published only online and no physical copies made. Should the work be shortlisted, such online version must be taken down.
  • Entrants’ name should not be included on the manuscript being submitted, as the award is judged blind and the author remains anonymous until the shortlist has been selected.

Guidelines

  • Number your pages; use a font size of 12, Times New Roman and 1.5 spacing (avoid unnecessary formatting such as borders).
  • Manuscripts should be a minimum of 40 000 words in length. Short stories do not qualify.
  • Intertextuality and references must be appropriately attributed and permissions from copyright holders obtained. This includes poems; song lyrics; quotes and excerpts from books, newspapers, magazines, journals; and reproductions of artwork, photographs or other forms.
  • Submissions must have been authored by one person. Co-authored pieces or works of collaboration do not qualify.
  • By entering their manuscript, authors agree not to submit their work for publication to any other avenues until the announcement of the shortlist. Any entries which secure a publishing deal before the shortlist has been confirmed will be disqualified.

Application

An electronic copy of the manuscript, along with a short biography (100 words or less) and author details should be submitted to Jacana Media. 3 (three) physical copies of the work must be submitted to the Jacana Media Offices, 10 Orange Street, Sunnyside, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, 2092.

Click here to apply

For more information, visit Dinaane Debut Fiction Award.

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