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Commonwealth Short Story Prize
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded annually for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000 to 5,000 words). The prize is open to citizens of member states of the Commonwealth of Nations aged 18 and over. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is managed by Commonwealth Writers, the cultural initiative of the Commonwealth Foundation, which was set up in 2012 to inspire, develop and connect writers and storytellers across the Commonwealth. The Prize replaced the Commonwealth Short Story Competition, a roughly similar competition that existed from 1996 to 2011 and was discontinued by the Commonwealth Foundation, along with the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. The Prize is open to writers who have had little or no work published and particularly aimed at those places with little or no publishing industry. The prize aims to bring writing from these countries to the attention of an international audience. The stories need to be in English, but can be translated from other l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Rokonadravu
Mary Rokonadravu is a story writer from Fiji. She was the first Fijians, Fijian to win the Pacific regional Commonwealth Short Story Prize twice in 2015 and 2022. Career Rokonadravu was the first Fijians, Fijian to win the Pacific regional Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her short story "''Famished Eels''" in 2015. She was also shortlisted for the same award in 2017. She has directed a prison writing programme at Suva's seven correctional facilities for four years and in 2008, she published ''shedding Silences'', the Pacific's first anthology of prison writing. In 2017, Rokonadravu launched a writing competition under the banner of the Fiji Media Watch Group. Rokonadravu was again awarded with the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story ''The Nightwatch'' in 2022. Awards Books * ''Famished Eels'' — A short story narrating inter-family and regional relations. * ''Sepia'' See also * Fijian literature References Living people Fijian writers Fijian women wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |