WEALTH OF IDEAS

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 d...

Joe Melia reports that the 2012 Bristol Short Story Prize is now open.  Melia writes, "Stories can be entered online or by post. The closing date for entries is 31st March 2012. Please read the rules and competition details before entering." The First prize is £1,000.  Twenty stories will be published in the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 5. The winning story will, also, be published in Bristol Review of Books and Venue magazine. The 2012 Bristol Short Story Prize awards ceremony will be the final event of our 2 nd ShortStoryVille festival which will be held next July. The 2012 judging panel will be chaired by former Random House editor, Ali Reynolds, who now runs her own Literary Consultancy in Bristol. Ali will be joined on the panel by the writer broadcaster and critic, Bidisha , Anna Britten, writer and contributing editor to Venue magazine, and the celebrated novelist, Chris Wakling , whose latest novel ‘What I Did’ was published by John Murr...