Narratives Against Poverty in Africa Literary Prize 2025 – YOA

Deadline: June 30, 2025

Applications are open for the Narratives Against Poverty in Africa Literary Prize 2025. An modern literary initiative, the Narratives Against Poverty in Africa Literary Prize, has been unveiled, providing African writers a daring platform to inform their continent’s tales by means of a prose, poetry, essay, and hybrid narratives that dig into heavy hitters like poverty, starvation, injustice, local weather change, corruption, pandemics, struggle, and violence.

Spearheaded by govt curator Mbizo Chirasha, this multi-style competitors goals to unearth and have a good time expertise from throughout Africa’s 52 nations and its diaspora, specializing in the theme “Narratives Against Poverty in Africa.”

The prize seeks to empower African voices to relate their very own histories and realities—each the continent’s wealthy heritage and its up to date struggles with the intention to focus on the deep nicely of African writing expertise whereas tackling the gorgeous and darkish current of a continent outlined by resilience amid adversity.

Benefits

• Three winners can be awarded money prizes together with alternatives and accolades, to be introduced in July 2025.
• Additionally, 52 standout submissions, together with these of winners and particular mentions, can be compiled right into a ebook anthology slated for publication in August 2025. Participants will obtain PDF copies, with paperback variations obtainable for on-line order.

Eligibility

• Open to African writers in African nations and different Africans in the diaspora;
• Applicants ought to be from the age of 18 and above.

Submission Guidelines

• Only two submissions per style (poetry, quick story and essays/hybrid narratives)
• Judges/curators expectations are extremely important work that delves onto thematic areas of poverty, starvation, injustice, results of local weather change, corruption, pandemics, results of struggle and violence in Africa.
• Submission size and measurement: for poetry, a most of 40 strains per submission; for brief story, a most of 4 pages; and for essays, a most of 4 pages.

Application

Entries have to be formatted in 12-level Times New Roman font and despatched as Word doc attachments to [email protected]. Each submission requires a title, style, and the creator’s identify in the topic line and on each web page, accompanied by a 15-line bio and a headshot photograph.

For extra info, go to Narratives Against Poverty in Africa Literary Prize.