{"id":64419,"date":"2025-11-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/?p=64419"},"modified":"2025-12-01T16:48:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:48:55","slug":"the-caine-prize-for-african-writing-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/opportunities\/the-caine-prize-for-african-writing-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The Caine Prize for African Writing 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Caine Prize for African Writing<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Free to Apply<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Closing: 27th February ’26<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Annual literary award of \u00a310,000 for the best short story by an African writer published in English. Open to African writers (whether in Africa or the diaspora) aged 18+. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stories must be 3,000-10,000 words, published within the five years preceding the deadline, and constitute fictional short stories only (novels, children’s stories, factual writing, academic essays, plays, poetry, autobiography\/biography not eligible). Entries must be submitted by publishers (including publishers of physical\/digital books, literary journals, magazines, arts-oriented websites) via email with publisher’s letter confirming writer consent, publication date, and author nationality. Self-published and unpublished works not eligible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winner and shortlisted writers invited to participate in events in Africa, London and elsewhere with travel awards provided. Shortlisted stories published in annual Caine Prize Anthology by Cassava Republic Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Caine Prize for African Writing awards \u00a310,000 annually for best short story by African writer published in English. 3,000-10,000 words. Publisher submissions only. Winners\/shortlist invited to international events, published in anthology. Deadline: 27th February 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"wp-custom-template-post-opportunity","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[880],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opportunities"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65871,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64419\/revisions\/65871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}