Eligibility and Entry Rules
To enter the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, submit your
unpublished short story of 2000-5000 words via the online application form between 15 September and 15 November 2014.
Before submitting a story to the prize, please read the eligibility and entry
rules[Download 2015 CSSP Eligibility Entry Rules] Submission of an
entry is taken as acceptance of the rules.
For any entry or eligibility queries not in the rules, please email writers@commonwealth.int for clarification before submitting an entry. This year’s
Commonwealth Short Story Prize is part-funded by The Sigrid Rausing
Trust.
1. About the Prize:
-The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is an annual award for unpublished
short fiction administered and funded by the Commonwealth Foundation.
-The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is part of Commonwealth Writers,
the cultural initiative of the Commonwealth Foundation.
-The prize covers the Commonwealth regions of 1. Africa, 2. Asia, 3.
Canada and Europe, 4.
Caribbean and 5. Pacific. (See Section 4 for countries in each region).
-There will be five winners, one from each region. One regional winner
will be selected as the overall winner. The overall winner of the
Commonwealth Short Story Prize receives £5,000 and the remaining four
regional winners £2,500. If the winning short story is a translation into
English, the translator receives additional prize money: £2,000 for the
overall winning story and £1,000 for a regional winning story.
-The final selection will be judged by an international judging panel;
experienced readers will assist the named judges in selecting the long
lists.
2. Eligibility:
-Entrants must be citizens of a Commonwealth country – please see
Section 4 for the list of Commonwealth countries. We will request
verification of citizenship before winners are selected. Writers from non-
Commonwealth countries (including the Republic of Ireland and
Zimbabwe) are not eligible.
-For regional purposes, entries will be judged by country of citizenship. Where the writer has dual citizenship, the entry will be judged in the region where the writer is permanently resident.
-Entrants must be aged 18 years or over.
-There is no requirement for the writer to have current residence in a Commonwealth country, providing she/he is a citizen of a Commonwealth country.
-All entries will be accepted at the discretion of Commonwealth Writers which will exercise its judgement, in consultation with the prize chair as necessary, in ruling on questions of eligibility. The ruling of the chair on questions of eligibility is final, and no further correspondence will be entered into.
-For regional purposes, entries will be judged by country of citizenship. Where the writer has dual citizenship, the entry will be judged in the region where the writer is permanently resident.
-Entrants must be aged 18 years or over.
-There is no requirement for the writer to have current residence in a Commonwealth country, providing she/he is a citizen of a Commonwealth country.
-All entries will be accepted at the discretion of Commonwealth Writers which will exercise its judgement, in consultation with the prize chair as necessary, in ruling on questions of eligibility. The ruling of the chair on questions of eligibility is final, and no further correspondence will be entered into.
3. Entry rules:
-Entries must be made by the writer.
-Entries will only be accepted via the online entry form.
-The deadline for receipt of entries is 15 November 2014 (12 noon GMT).
-Only one entry per writer may be submitted.
-The story must be the entrant’s own work.
-The story must be original and should not have been previously published anywhere in full or in part. Published work is taken to mean published in any printed, publicly accessible form, e.g. anthology, magazine, newspaper. It is also taken to mean published online, with the exception of personal blogs and personal websites. Entries previously submitted to the Commonwealth Short Story Prize are not eligible.
-All entries must be in English. Translations of short stories written in languages other than English are eligible if submitted by the writer (not the translator) and provided the translator is a citizen of a Commonwealth country. Details of the translator must be stated on the entry.
-Entries must be 2,000 words minimum, 5,000 words maximum.
-Entries should be uploaded in a PDF document. Please save your document as a PDF and use the title of the story as the file name. Please note the story must not be saved as ‘Commonwealth Story’, ‘Short Story’ or any other generic title. If it is not possible to save the entry as a PDF document, it may be uploaded as a Microsoft Word document, with the file name in the same format as above. The first page should include the name of the story and the number of words (and details of the translator if it is a story written in a language other than English).
-Entries must be made by the writer.
-Entries will only be accepted via the online entry form.
-The deadline for receipt of entries is 15 November 2014 (12 noon GMT).
-Only one entry per writer may be submitted.
-The story must be the entrant’s own work.
-The story must be original and should not have been previously published anywhere in full or in part. Published work is taken to mean published in any printed, publicly accessible form, e.g. anthology, magazine, newspaper. It is also taken to mean published online, with the exception of personal blogs and personal websites. Entries previously submitted to the Commonwealth Short Story Prize are not eligible.
-All entries must be in English. Translations of short stories written in languages other than English are eligible if submitted by the writer (not the translator) and provided the translator is a citizen of a Commonwealth country. Details of the translator must be stated on the entry.
-Entries must be 2,000 words minimum, 5,000 words maximum.
-Entries should be uploaded in a PDF document. Please save your document as a PDF and use the title of the story as the file name. Please note the story must not be saved as ‘Commonwealth Story’, ‘Short Story’ or any other generic title. If it is not possible to save the entry as a PDF document, it may be uploaded as a Microsoft Word document, with the file name in the same format as above. The first page should include the name of the story and the number of words (and details of the translator if it is a story written in a language other than English).
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