Submission Guidelines

Eligibility

The author must be a citizen of an African state or a dual citizenship holder (a copy of a passport or comparable document will be required of winners).
African citizens of all ages qualify to present submissions.
There is no restriction on race or geographical location.
Writers below the ages of 18 years will be automatically considered for the Rising Writer Prize.

Closing date for submissions to The Golden Baobab 2012: Midnight GMT, Sunday, June 24, 2012. Winners Announced: First week of November, 2012.

Submission Guidelines

Contestants and entries must comply with ALL of the following criteria. Works that do not conform to the rules will be disqualified.*

Submitted stories should fall into either Category A (stories for readers aged 8-11 years) or Category B (stories for readers aged 12-15 years).
Entry should be a work of fiction between 1,000 to 5,000 words. The category a story falls into may influence its length.
There are no restrictions on themes but stories must be set in Africa or have a very evident African content.
Stories should be in written in English and should not have been previously published elsewhere, in part or in full.
Pseudonyms may not be used. Entries must be submitted under entrant's real name.
Entrants may enter up to five stories.
All entries must be the unaided work of the entrant.
Previous entrants of the Prize are eligible to enter in subsequent years. Past winners of the Prize are ineligible to enter in subsequent years.
The title page of submissions should state the category and title of the story. All biographical information should be sent in the body of submission email.

ALL entries will be acknowledged with an email to the address from which the entry was sent.

The Golden Baobab Prize administration reserves the right to disqualify entries that do not conform to set rules. No correspondence will be entered into in this regard.

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Entries should be submitted as typed Microsoft word or PDF documents. There should be a title page with the following information:

Title of Story:
Story for Junior Category ( readers 8-11 years) or Senior Category (readers 12-15 years)?:
Age of entrant:

The body of the email should include the following personal information:

Name:
Title of story:
Age of entrant:
Country of citizenship:
Story for Junior Category ( readers 8-11 years) or Senior Category (readers 12-15 years)?:
Email:
Phone number (country code-area code- number):
How I heard about the Golden Baobab Prize (just a sentence or two):

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