Ronasi Fiction Prize for Mototi Ward Primary Schools (Zimbabwe)

The Ronald Sigauke Memorial Fiction Prize, in collaboration with Chisiya Writers’ Workshop in Mazvihwa, Zimbabwe, announces the first edition of the RONASI Fiction Prize for Grade 7 students at Mototi Ward Primary Schools (Gudo, Mototi, and Gwen'ombe Dip). This prize is offered by the Sigauke family in memory of Ronald Sigauke, who died at the age of 7 in Harare. He was in primary school and had already expressed his dream to get an advanced education.  Although his school in Glen View was about 20 minutes' walk from home, he had asked his uncle in America to send him a bicycle so he could cycle to school, to arrive quicker. He was young but already was showing signs of an emerging scholar. This competition honors his ambition by making education and bicycles the two themes contestants can base their stories.


Themes:  Contestants will choose one only.

1.      Education and success: Your story should feature characters doing all they can to get an education. This might be through their own effort, or through the efforts of their parents, guardians or their school. You can show the challenges they face and how they overcome them. The story may also be about other challenges or experiences, but it should still have the theme of education in the background. In other words, a story about someone losing a parent may connect to how that affects their educational success.

2.      Bicycles:  If you choose this theme, the subject of your stories can be about anything, but make sure you feature a bicycle. If you want to be more experimental, you may also make the bicycle a character, like a person, telling its own story. The important thing is to write an interesting story that mentions a bicycle playing an important role.

Guidelines

1.      The story can be in Shona or English
2.      The story should be between 800 to 1500 words
3.      When possible, the stories should be typed
4.      The story should not show your name. Submit your name on a separate piece of paper where you give a short bio about yourself.
5.      This competition is for students in Grade 7 at these primary schools: Mototi, Gwen'ombe Dip, and Gudo. 
6.      Submit one story only.
7.      Contestants chosen for the top five list will work with an editor who suggests improvements to their stories. The writers will revise their stories and resubmit them for final consideration. Three winners will be chosen from the top five.

RONASI Fiction Prize  Money

First Prize: $130
Second Prize: $70
Third Prize $50


Deadlines:  Submit your short story by February 29, 2024
                    The top five stories will be announced on March 14, 2024
                    The winners will be announced on March 28, 2024

The judge/s will be announced soon.  

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