SI Leeds Literary Prize : Check your eligibility

Above All,
Happy Writing,
JJ

Multi-ethnic Women Writers/ Based in the UK/ Check Eligibility for your unpublished manuscript

The SI Leeds Literary Prize is the prize for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women resident in the UK aged 18 years and over. A biennial award, the 2014 Prize was launched at the 2013 Ilkley Literature Festival – submissions can be made online from 1 December 2013, with a deadline of 31 March 2014 using this link:
Submit to SI Leeds Literary Prize

The prize aims to act as a loudspeaker for Black and Asian women’s voices, enabling fresh and original literary voices from a group disproportionately under-represented in mainstream literary culture to reach new audiences.

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