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Welcome to the Annual ARSO Essay Competition, a prestigious platform dedicated to fostering creativity, innovation, and critical thinking among the youth across Africa. Each year, we invite students to explore pressing topics, share their perspectives, and contribute to the ongoing dialogue on sustainable development and standards in Africa. Join us in celebrating the power of words and ideas in shaping a brighter future for our continent.

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“The role of standardisation in promoting the growth of Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) for sustainable, inclusive and diversified industrial and economic development in Africa”

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Writing Competitions In Africa 2024: Poetry, Short Stories, Fiction

access to the African writing competitions 2024, we compiled a list of writing opportunities for African writers. Enjoy writing competitions in Africa

Writing Competitions In Africa 2024 List

• Ensure you read the submission guidelines before submitting for the writing contests
• Ensure you are conversant with what the organizers of the writing contests want. You can do this by checking the works that won the previous contests.
• Ensure you meet the submission deadline for the writing contest. One mistake most writers make while submitting for contests in 2024, is omitting the date the submission closed or not paying close attention to it.
• Eligibility requirement for the contests. Checks if there's one provided for in the contest.
• And lastly, take a deep breath and submit your entries after proper checks for possible errors.
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Writing Competitions In Africa 2024 January 

• Defenestrationism's Lengthy Poem Contest 2024
• Gemini Magazine Poetry Prize 2024
• The Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies 2024
• Quantum Shorts Flash Fiction Contest 2024
• The Colorado Prize for Poetry 2024
• The Gulliver Travel Grant 2023
• Rattle Chapbook Prize 2024
• Chris O'Malley Prize in Fiction 2024 and Phyllis Smart-Young Prize in Poetry 2024
• Pawners Paper's Spoken Word and Poetry Contest 1.0 2024
• Askew’s Word on the Lake Writing Contest 2023
• Story Unlikely Annual Short Story Contest 2024

Writing Competitions In Africa 2024 February 

• Dragonblade Publishing's Write Track Competition 2024
• The Ambroggio Prize 2024
• Harold Morton Landon Translation Award 2024
• The Tower Poetry Competition 2024

Writing Competitions In Africa 2024 March 

• The 2024 New Poets Prize
• Black Women’s Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize 2024
• Indignor House Writing Competition 2024

Writing Competitions In Africa 2024 April

• Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2024
• SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2024 | $4,000 Cash Prizes 
• Tadpole Press 100-Word Writing Contest 2024 |$2000+ Cash Prize  
• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize 2024 | $5,000 Cash Prize
• Poetry International Prize 2024 | $1000 Cash Prize 
• 2024 Oversound Chapbook Prize | $1000 and 50 Copies
• The Iowa Poetry Prize 2024
• Own Voices, Own Stories Award 2024 | $2000+ Cash Prizes  
• Al Blanchard Award 2024 | $100 Cash Prize And More  
• $100 cash award.
• Publication in 2024’s Best New England Crime Stories anthology
• Free admission to the Crime Bake Conference.
• A handsome plaque.
• The winner is not required to attend the conference.
• The Author of Tomorrow Award 2024 | £1000+ Cash Prizes 

Writing Competitions In Africa 2024 May 

• The Waterston Desert Writing Prize 2024 | $3000 Cash Prize  
• 15th Call for the Casa África Essay Awards 2024 | 2000 Euros Cash Prize
• Montreal International Poetry Prize 2024 | $20,000 Cash Prize
• Academy of American Poets' James Laughlin Award 2024 | $5,000 Cash Prize and Sponsored Residency
• ABA Journal / Ross Writing Contest for Legal Short Fiction 2024 | $5,000 Cash Prize
• Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 2024 | $25,000 Cash Prize
• The Yeovil Literary Prize International Writing Competition 2024
• The Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing 2024|$10,000 and publication

Writing Competitions In Africa 2024 June

• Boulevard Emerging Poets Contest 2024 | $1,000 Cash Prize 
• Bard College's The Bard Fiction Prize 2025 | $30,000 and Writer Residency
• The Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award 2024 | $25,000 Cash Prize
• Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition 2024
• The Bridport Prize 2024
• 2024 McLellan Poetry Competition
• The Goi Peace Foundation's International Essay Contest For Young People 2024 | $700+ Cash Prizes
• University of Akron Press's Akron Poetry Prize 2024 | $1,500 and Publication
• Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors Short Story Contest 2024 | No Entry Fee
• The Griffin Poetry Prize 2025 | $130,000 Cash Prizes
• The 2024 Poetry London Prize | $8,000 Cash Prizes
• Drue Heinz Literature Prize 2024 | $15,000 Cash Prize and Publication 

Writing Competitions In Africa 2024 July 

• The Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2024 | $1,000 Cash Prize  
• The Wanjohi Prize for African Poetry | $100, $50
• The HG Wells Short Story Competition 2024 | $1,000+ Cash Prizes and Publication  

Writing Competitions In Africa 2024 August 

• The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2024 | Poetry and Short Story
• £5,000 prize money
• (£2,500 for the Poetry Winner, £2,500 for the Short Fiction Winner)
• Publication in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual
• A five-day course from Arvon (Fiction Winner)
• Two online masterclasses with Arvon (Poetry Winner)
• One-year print subscription to Granta (Poetry & Fiction Winners)
• One-year digital subscription to Mslexia (Poetry & Fiction Winners)
• Six-week writing poetry course from Curtis Brown Creative (Poetry Winner)
• Full membership to The Poetry Society (Poetry Winner)
• A course from the Poetry School (Poetry Winner)
• Consultation with Redhammer Management (Fiction Winner)
• Six-week writing short stories course from Curtis Brown Creative (Fiction Winner)
• Full membership to Litopia (Poetry & Fiction Winners)
• One-year Deluxe Subscription to The London Magazine (Poetry & Fiction Winners)

Writing Competitions In Africa 2024 September 

• Rattle Poetry Prize 2024 | $15,000 Cash Prize  

List Of Writing Competitions In Africa 2023

• European Writing Prize 2023
• The prize for the winner will be as follows:
• 50 euros paid via PayPal or bank transfer
• Automatic lifetime membership into The European Society of Literature
• Publication in the following quarterly literary journal of TESL
• Potential talks with literary agents — they may scout the shortlist and winners.
• The prestige associated with being victorious! An unmatched opportunity to get your foot in the burgeoning literary industry of Europe and the Americas.
• Island Prize For African Writers 2023
• International Student Essay Competition 2023
• Stacy Doris Memorial Poetry Award 2023
• Nine Dots Prize 2023
• Ako Caine Prize For African Writing 2023
• Welkin Writing Prize 2023

I’m running this competition as a thank you to the writing community which has done so much to support both my writing and my freelance work over the past few years. In September 2022, I was lucky enough to receive a DYCP grant from Arts Council England to fund paid research and writing time, and this competition feels like a small thing that I can do to pay forwards my good fortune. As such, the competition is free to enter and I hope it will be a welcoming space for all writers. The competition is open to all forms of narrative prose, be that flash fiction, short-short, vignette, haibun, hermit crab, prose poem or work that sits outside such labels. There is a whole universe (or welkin) of possibilities.

• 1st place (£150 + annual membership of Writers' HQ worth £190)
• 2nd place (£75 + AdHoc Fiction book voucher worth £25)
• 3rd place (£50 + a copy of "Deflection" by Roberta Beary)
• Jerry Jazz Musician Short Fiction Contest 2023
• Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest 2023
• Deep Wild 2023 Graduate Student Poetry Contest  
• Global Essay Competition 2023
• Center For African American Poetry and Poetics Book Prize 2023
• The Diana Woods Memorial Award 2023
• The Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize 2023
• Annual BSFS Poetry Contest 2023
• Please no previously published submissions.
• Winners will receive a cash prize, convention membership and be invited to read their winning entries at Balticon. Attendance at Balticon is not required to win.
• Winning poems will be published one time in the BSFAN, the Balticon convention souvenir book. In addition, a pdf version of the winning poems as they appear in the BSFAN will be available on the Balticon Poetry Contest website. Writers retain all rights to their work. By submitting to the contest, entrants agree to these terms
• Stephen Spender Prize 2023
• 2023 Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest
• Winchester Poetry Prize 2023
• The 1729 Book Prize in Poetry 2023
• SURGING TIDE: THE ANNUAL SUMMER WRITING CONTEST
• 2023 Platt Family Scholarship Essay Contest
• 3rd Singapore Unbound Awards for the Best Undergraduate Critical Essays on Singapore and Other Literatures 2023
• The Granum Foundation Prize 2023
• The Yale Drama Series 2023
• Lucky Jefferson Poetry & Prose Summer Contest 2023
• Palette Poetry's Chapbook Prize 2023
• The Kari Howard Fund for Narrative Journalism 2023
• The Masters Review’s Short Story Award for New Writers 2023
• The Edinburgh Award for Flash Fiction
• Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2023
• The Val Wood Prize for Creative Writing 2023: The Hungry Tide 30th Anniversary Special
• The Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing
• The Amazon Kindle Storyteller Award 2023
• Academy For Teachers: Stories Out of School Flash Fiction Contest 2023
• The Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multilingual Texts 2023 
• The Diana Woods Memorial Award in Creative Nonfiction, Issue 24
• The New York Labor History Association’s Bernhardt Prize 2023
• Frontier Poetry's Roots and Roads Prize 2023
• Source Writing Prize 2023
• Mslexia Women's Fiction Competition 2023
• The César Egido Serrano Foundation 2023
• The Iowa Short Fiction Award & John Simmons Short Fiction Award 2023
• Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize 2023
• The Peter Poetry Prize 2023
• The National Poetry Competition 2023
• The ServiceScape Short Story Award 2023
• Frontier Poetry's Award For New Poets 2023
• The Benjamin Franklin Essay Competition 2023
• 2024 Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize
• Happiful Poetry Prize 2024 
• The Poetry.com Contest 2023
• One Teen Story Contest 2023
• 2024 Minotaur Books/Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel Competition
• The Betty Trask Prize 2023
• Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition 2023
• Cafe Writers Poetry Competition 2023
• Tadpole Press 100-Word Writing Contest 2023
• 2023 Information Warfare Essay Contest
• How might the opening salvoes of the next war begin in the information space,and what should be done now to defend against those attacks? How might our adversaries be planning to win without fighting by using information warfare?
• What specific information warfare technologies (offensive and defensive) should the U.S. military be investing in now?
• How can the military recruit, educate, train, and retain the information warriors it needs to prevail in the information environment?
• Are there any recent case studies (that went well or poorly) that can provide lessons to guide strategy, operations, tactics, or acquisition over the next three to five years?
• What role will electronic warfare and emissions control play in the future of naval warfare?
• J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction 2023
• The Sarah Maguire Poetry in Translation Prize 2023
• The Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry
• Mslexia Women's Poetry Competition 2023
• Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2023
• first prize £2,000
• second prize £1,000
• third prize £500
• plus 20 commendeds
• plus – winners & commendeds will be invited to read with judges (live & online) at the Bedford Park Festival ‘Yeats Birthday’ poetry event in June 2024.
• Afritondo Short Story Prize 2024
• The Masters Review Chapbook Competition 2024
• The 2023 Society of Classical Poets International Poetry Competition
• 2024 Elizabeth Alexander Creative Writing Award 
• The Lyric College Poetry Contest 2023
• The Writivism Literary Prizes 2023
• The Tony Quagliano Poetry Award 2023
• Harbor Editions' Laureate Prize 2024
• Lilith Magazine Annual Fiction Contest 2023
• Kinsman Quarterly’s Iridescence Award 2023

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