New award offers prize for first novel manuscript

The Graywolf Press Africa Prize, a new literary award, is offering $12, 000 and a publishing deal to the winner of its first novel manuscript contest.  Grawolf is looking for a first novel manuscript by an African author primarily residing in Africa, novels that are engaged with the current moment. The inaugural prize will be […]

The Graywolf Press Africa Prize, a new literary award, is offering $12, 000 and a publishing deal to the winner of its first novel manuscript contest. 

Grawolf is looking for a first novel manuscript by an African author primarily residing in Africa, novels that are engaged with the current moment.

The inaugural prize will be judged by Igoni A. Barrett, author of the 2013 short story collection, ‘Love Is Power, or Something Like That’, and the 2015 novel ‘Blackass’, in conjunction with the Graywolf editors.”

Founded in 1974 and located in Minneapolis, USA, the award-winning Graywolf Press is committed to the discovery and energetic publication of contemporary American and international literature. 

Graywolf Press is always looking for work that is distinctive, artistically singular, and of a high literary quality. For this prize, 

Igoni A. Barrett, who lives in Nigeria, is a recipient of the Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency.

Submissions would open from October 1 and close on October 31 2017.