K&L Prize for African Literature has made calls for new short story entries, for the year 2020.
This year’s prize themed “Africanfuturism”, seeks powerful young African voices. The K&L prize, founded and sponsored by New Zealand-based Nigerian writer Myles Ojabo in 2018, awards NZD1,000 for the best unpublished short fiction. The inaugural edition was awarded to South African writer, Sisca Julius, for her story, Honey Bee.
Africanfuturism, a term coined by Nigerian Sci-Fi writer Nnedi Okorafor, is a genre that often depicts aliens, and sometimes witches, and is mostly set in a recognizable future Africa, with African lineages — which “are not cultural hybrids but rooted in the history and traditions of the continent with no element or traits drawn from Western culture or even pop culture”.
The judges for this year’s prize are; Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba an assistant professor of English at the University of Winnipeg, Canada, and Dione Joseph the founder of Black Creatives Aotearoa.
To enter one must submit a short fiction of 1000-2000 words to –id.ojabo@gmail.com. And the entrant should be between the ages of 18-25 years.
