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THE BWW SHORT STORY AWARD
The BWW Short Story Award celebrates and nurtures new writing voices, particularly in short fiction, in English. The best short stories offer a unique insight of the world and its people, while also capturing the cultural and societal concerns of a particular time and place.
The award will consist of a cash prize and a plaque, which will be awarded at the Bangalore Literary Festival (BLF).
The winning entry will be discussed at the BWW Short Story Community event at Atta Galatta (AG).
The award also offers the winner an opportunity to enrol in a no-cost workshop with the Bangalore Writers Workshop (BWW).
The plaque, called the R K Anand Prize, is a memorial tribute to a simple, artistic man whose worldview was always tinged with kindness, empathy, and joy. We are using his artwork for the plaque.
OUR JURY
Jahnavi Barua
Jahnavi Barua is an Indian writer based in Bangalore. Next Door (Penguin India, 2008), her debut collection of short stories was longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Her next, a novel called Rebirth (Penguin India, 2010), was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. The third, Undertow, a novel, was published by Penguin Random House India (Viking Books) in February 2020 and was longlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2020 and the BLF Atta Galatta Book Prize 2020. It won the Best Fiction Prize in the Auther Award 2021 and the Kalinga Award for Fiction 2021. Her short fiction has been widely anthologized and her work is part of several university syllabi. Jahnavi is a qualified doctor but does not practise medicine. She was born in Guwahati and raised between Assam, Meghalaya, Delhi and Manchester.
Saikat Majumdar
Saikat Majumdar, Professor of English & Creative Writing at Ashoka University, is the author of five novels, most recently, The Remains of the Body. His previous novels include The Scent of God, a story of love and friendship between two boys in a boarding school run by a monastic order, The Firebird, which narrates a young boy's destructive obsession with his mother's life as a theatre actress, and The Middle Finger, a contemporary college campus retelling of the Ekalavya myth. Saikat has also published a work of nonfiction on higher education, College, two books of literary criticism, The Amateur and Prose of the World, and a co-edited collection of essays, The Critic as Amateur.
Indira Chandrasekhar
Indira Chandrasekhar is a writer, literary curator and founder and principal editor of the award-winning literary journal Out of Print that publishes short fiction bearing a connection to the Indian subcontinent. The journal features work that is written in or translated into English. An anthology marking ten years of the magazine was co-published with Context Books, the literary imprint of Westland, in 2020 and reissued in 2023. She is co-editor of the anthology Pangea, Thames River Press. A collection of her short stories Polymorphism that draws on concepts she explored as a research scientist was published by HarperCollins. She is the principal author of Celebrating the Arts: Forty Years of the International Music and Arts Society in Bangalore brought out by the Society in 2023.
Submission Guidelines
1. Submitted work must be a short story in English. There is no theme.2. Submitted work must not be published elsewhere. Simultaneous submissions are accepted.
3. Stories should be between 1000 and 4000 words but in special cases, editorial discretion may be applied.
4. We invite stories that are detailed, craft-intensive, and that look at the world we inhabit with openness and empathy, or as we say,
stories with a lot of heart.
5. We discourage material that includes erotica, rampant racism, or hateful accounts of sensitive subjects such as religion, caste, gender,
or sexuality, or works that are offensive or excessively violent.
6. Please provide a cover letter which includes the following contact information: name, postal address, email address and telephone
number.
7. Please provide a brief biographical sketch of no more than 150 words.
8. In the attachment, (word doc or pdf format only) kindly mention the title of your story and the number of words at the top of the
page. Remember to number your pages and please DO NOT mention your name on the story document.
9. Please email your cover letter and attachment to bangalorewritersworkshopbww@gmail.com Subject line should contain 'The BWW
Short Story Award Submission' only.
10. Copyright remains with the author. Should your piece be published again, we request the courtesy of an acknowledgement stating that
the piece was first published in Out of Print Blog and was the winning entry at The BWW Short Story Award Competition.
11. Please include a self-attestation stating that
i. the entry being submitted has not been published elsewhere, particularly in an anthology of short stories.
ii. You are not an author who has previously published a novel(s) or an anthology of short stories.
iii. If you have self-published a book, that is alright.
What is the prize for the winning entry?
The author of the winning entry will be announced at the Bangalore Literature Festival, and awarded a cash prize of Rs. 25,000 and a plaque.
The winner will receive an unconditional offer to have their story feature in The Out of Print Magazine Blog in a separate section dedicated solely for this prize.
The winning entry will be discussed at the BWW Short Story Community event at Atta Galatta. The winner also gets a no-cost enrolment to any workshop offered by the Bangalore Writers Workshop.
There will be no runners-up. We will, however, announce a shortlist.
What is the eligibility criteria to participate?
All persons, above the age of 18, are eligible to submit. As we are trying to provide a platform for emerging writers, authors who have previously published a novel(s) or an anthology of short stories are requested not to apply. If you have self-published a book, that is alright.
Note: the story being submitted for consideration should NOT have been published on any platform (online or offline).
Can I submit more than one story?
Yes, we will accept simultaneous submissions.
What is the deadline for submission?
Please send in your story by October 15, 2024..
Is there any theme or a word limit?
You are free to write any short fiction story in English.
There is no theme.
The maximum word limit is 4000 words (spaces not included).
We invite stories that are detailed, craft-intensive, and that look at the world
we inhabit with openness and empathy, or as we say, stories with a lot of heart.
Please read the Submission Guidelines for more details.
How do I submit my entry?
Please read the Submission Guidelines.
Is there a submission format?
Yes! Please read the Submission Guidelines.
Who do I contact if I have any questions?
There should be no questions if you adhere to the Submission Guidelines. Please submit your entry. All the best.
About BWW
Bangalore Writers Workshop (BWW), is a first-of-its-kind writing and storytelling school, established in 2011 that fosters the creative mind and encourages a community of writers.
About Out of Print Magazine
Out of Print is an online platform for short fiction with a connection to the Indian subcontinent. It is published quarterly and features work in English, or translated into English. The first issue of the magazine was released in September 2010.
A list of contributors to Out of Print is featured on the Out of Print blog and includes a range of writers, from the famous to the well-established to those publishing for the first time. A number of writers who published in Out of Print have gone on to successful publishing careers, winning awards and accolades, with work from the magazine featuring in their books.
About Atta Galatta
Atta Galatta (AG) is an independent Indian language bookstore and events space. Nestled in the quiet streets of Indiranagar, AG offers an experiential space to shop through a curated collection of books and attend a wide range of community-centric events.