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The Federation Brief tale Prize Composing Challenge is a yearly honor for unpublished
short fiction managed and supported by the Republic Establishment.
The award is allowed to enter and open to any resident of a Ward country matured 18 and over. It is granted for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000-5,000 words).
More grant open doors are continuous in nations across Europe, the US and Canada. Look at a few chose potential open doors beneath:

List of chapters
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Subtleties:
Requirements:
2O23 Continuous Grants
Reward
Section Rules
Strategy for Application
Cutoff time: November 1, 2023

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Have: Ward Establishment
Class: Contests
Qualified Nations: 56 chose nations
Reward: £15,000
Cutoff time: November 1, 2023

Subtleties:
a. The Republic Brief tale Prize is a yearly honor for unpublished
short fiction regulated and supported by the Federation Establishment.
b. The award covers the Ward districts of 1. Africa, 2. Asia, 3. Canada and
Europe, 4. Caribbean and 5. Pacific. ( See Area 5 for nations in every district).
c. The global passing judgment on board contains one adjudicator from every one of the five areas. If it's not too much trouble
note that while the sections will be judged territorially, all judges will peruse and ponder on
sections from all locales.
d. There will be five champs, one from every locale. One provincial champ will be chosen as
the overall winner. The general champ of the District Brief tale Prize will get
£5,000 and the leftover four provincial victors £2,500. In the event that the triumphant brief tale is a
interpretation into English, the interpreter will get extra award cash.
e. The last selection will be decided by a worldwide passing judgment on board; experienced readers will
help the named decided in choosing the long list.

Requirements:
a. Contestants should be residents of a Federation country - if it's not too much trouble, see Segment 5 for the list
of Province nations - or stateless people at present dwelling in a
Province country. The Region Establishment will demand check of
citizenship status before champs are chosen. Sections from residents of non Commonwealth nations are not qualified.
b. For provincial purposes, sections will be decided by nation of citizenship. Where the author
has double citizenship (of two Region nations), the passage will be decided in the
district where the essayist is forever occupant.
c. There is no necessity for the essayist to have current home in a District
country, giving that they are a resident of a District country.
d. Contestants should be matured 18 years or over on 1 November 2023.
e. All passages will be acknowledged at the circumspection of the District Establishment which will
practice its judgment, in meeting with the award seat, in administering on inquiries of
qualification. The decision of the seat on inquiries of qualification is conclusive, and no further
correspondence will be placed into.
f. Sections from past by and large champs of the Region Brief tale Prize are
not qualified. Contestants who have won the territorial award multiple times are likewise not
qualified to submit to the award.
g. Passages from current individuals from staff at the District Establishment are not qualified.
h. Sections should be unpublished and stay unpublished in any language until 1 May 2024.
I. On the off chance that your entrance has been shortlisted or won an award in different contests, gave it has not
been distributed, it is qualified.

Reward
There will be five victors, one from every locale. One local champ will be chosen as
the overall winner. The general champ of the Province Brief tale Prize will get
£5,000 and the leftover four local victors £2,500. In the event that the triumphant brief tale is a
interpretation into English, the interpreter will get extra award cash.

Section Rules
a. Sections, remembering those for interpretation, should be made by the first creator.

b. Passages may be acknowledged by means of the internet based section structure.
c. The cutoff time for receipt of passages is 1 November 2023 (11.59pm in any time region).
d. Just a single passage for every essayist every year might be submitted for the Region Brief tale Prize.
e. The story should be the participant's own work.
f. The story should be unique work and shouldn't have been distributed anyplace, in that frame of mind in
part, in any language, before 1 May2024. Distributed work is interpreted as meaning distributed in any
printed, openly available structure, for example compilation, magazine, paper. It is additionally taken to
mean distributed on the web, with the exception of individual web journals, individual sites and individual Facebook
pages.
g. Sections recently submitted to the District Brief tale Prize are not qualified.
h. Sections ought to be submitted in English, with the accompanying special cases: sections from
Province residents who write in Bengali, Chinese, Creole, French, Greek, Kiswahili,
Malay, Maltese, Portuguese, Samoan, Tamil and Turkish and who don't have an English
interpretation of their story, may present their accounts in the first language. English
interpretations of brief tales written in different dialects are qualified whenever presented by the
essayist (not the interpreter) and given that the interpreter is likewise a resident of a Ward country.
I. Concurrent entries are qualified the same length as the participant illuminates the coordinators (through
creatives@commonwealthfoundation.com) promptly should the story be acknowledged
for distribution somewhere else or be chosen for an award.
j. Passages should be 2,000 words least, 5,000 words greatest (excluding title).
k. Sections ought to be transferred in a PDF record. Please save your documents as PDF and use
the title of the story as the record name. Kindly note that the story should not be saved as
'District Story', 'Brief tale' or some other nonexclusive title. On the off chance that it is beyond the realm of possibilities to expect to save
the passage as a PDF report, it very well might be transferred as a Microsoft Word record, with
the record name in a similar configuration as above. The main page ought to incorporate the name of the
story and the quantity of words.
l. The creator's subtleties ought to be remembered for the section structure. They should not be given
anyplace on the transferred report. All sections are judged namelessly.
m. Where applicable,the interpreter's subtleties ought to be remembered for the passage structure.
n. Passages in English ought to be submitted in Arial 12-point textual style and twofold line separating.
For sections in other languages,the suitable text style ought to be utilized. All pages ought to be
numbered.
o. There are no limitations on setting, class or subject.
p. The story ought to be grown-up fiction and should not have been composed for youngsters alone.
q. Participants concur as a state of section that the prize coordinators might pitch the way that
a story has been placed or shortlisted for the Prize.
r. Overall copyright of every story stays with the author. The District
Establishment will have the unlimited right to distribute the triumphant stories (the generally
winning story and the four provincial winning stories) on the web, in a collection, or for
limited time purposes where proper.
s. The shortlisted authors, the provincial champs, and the general victor will be supposed to
participate in exposure exercises including web-based entertainment where conceivable.
t. The by and large and provincial victors might be supposed to embrace an OK together
program of territorial effort exercises to create and advance the District
Establishment. 

Strategy for Application
To apply, click on the connection underneath.
CLICK HERE TO APPLY
https://commonwealthfoundation.com/short-story-prize/

Cutoff time: November 1, 2023