Alexander Nderitu World Literature Prize 2025 (up to Kshs 50,000) – YOA

Deadline: November 15, 2025

Applications are invited for the Alexander Nderitu World Literature Prize 2025. The 2025 Edition will honour authentic, one-act stage performs from wherever on the planet. A single winner will probably be chosen by the founding father of the prize, Kenyan-born author and critic Alexander Nderitu.

The longlist will probably be introduced in December 2025. The shortlist will probably be introduced in February 2026 and the eventual winner will probably be unveiled at a literary occasion in April 2026.

Prize

• The profitable playwright will stroll away with a money prize of Kshs 50,000, a one-12 months on-line promotion marketing campaign, and style the duvet of The African Griot Review journal.

Eligibility

• Open to writers wherever on the planet, aged over 18.
• All entries should be in English. Translations and variations are usually not eligible.
• The entry should not be optioned, commissioned, carried out or been beforehand revealed wherever, together with on-line. Simultaneous submissions are advantageous however inform the organisers in case your work is revealed or staged elsewhere through the judging course of.
• They are on the lookout for a play that’s about quarter-hour lengthy. A minute of dialogue is roughly one web page of script. The playwright’s identify should not seem wherever on the submitted doc. One might submit up to three totally different performs. Each play should have just one author, no collaborators.
• Plagiarism and help from Artificial Intelligence (AI) writing instruments are grounds for immediate disqualification.

Application

All entries are to be submitted in Adobe PDF format to: [email protected]. In the topic tab, kind: ‘2025 Alexander Nderitu Prize for World Literature Submission’. In the physique of the e-mail furnish the next info:

• Title of your play
• Your full identify
• Your nationality
• Your age
• Your daytime phone quantity
• Your most popular e-mail tackle
• A short bio (300 phrases max)

Add your brief play as a PDF attachment. (Remember not to embrace any identifiers within the attachment.) The Judge’s determination is remaining. The profitable entry will probably be revealed in The African Griot Review.

For extra info, go to Alexander Nderitu World Literature Prize.