Submission for the Fourth Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize has been announced and will run from February 1-28, 2023. The prize is awarded for a first novel by an African author primarily residing in Africa. To be judged by Tsitsi Dangarembga (author of the Booker Prize short-listed This Mournable Body), in conjunction with the Graywolf editors, the prize seeks novels that are “engaged with the current moment and that approach contemporary issues with innovative prose and fresh perspectives”. The winner will receive an advance of $12,000 and publication by Graywolf Press.
Submissions must be “full-length, previously unpublished first novels, or first novels published in Africa that have not been distributed or available for sale outside of the continent of Africa.” Submissions will be accepted here, on their Submittable page.
Previous winners of the prize include The House of Rust (October 2021) by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber and If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English (April 2022) by Noor Naga.
For more details about the prize, click here.
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