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2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize

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Applicant criteria

  • NationalityNo specific nationality required
  • AgeNo specific age required
  • GenderBoth

Opportunity criteria

  • Opportunity FieldForeign Languages and Literature
  • Job locationUnited Kingdom
  • Deadline2025-06-30

Opportunity description

The 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize is open for entries.

Submission Guidelines

  • The prize supports writers who have not yet published a book-length work, with no limits on age, gender, nationality, or background.
  • All prizes are for short works, not for novel/memoir extracts. While extracts from longer works are eligible, they must stand alone as complete works in their own right.

Categories: Fiction, Poetry, Life Writing.

Entry fee: £12 for a single entry, £16 for a double entry and £6 for a single subsidised entry. You may make multiple entries if you would like to do so by completing the entry form multiple times.

Judges: Romesh Gunesekera, Anton Hur, Noreen Masud, Yasmine Seale.

Prizes

  • The winners of each category will receive a £1,000 cash prize and publication in Wasafiri magazine.
  • All winners and shortlisted writers will be offered the Chapter and Verse or Free Reads mentoring scheme in partnership with The Literary Consultancy (dependent on eligibility), as well as a one-year print subscription to Wasafiri.

Deadline: 11.59 pm BST on 30th June, 2025.

Benefits

  • £1,000 cash prize.
  • Publication in Wasafiri magazine.
  • Mentoring scheme (dependent on eligibility).
  • One-year print subscription to Wasafiri.

Eligibility criteria

No limits on age, gender, nationality, or background. All prizes are for short works, not for novel/memoir extracts.

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