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AKO CAINE PRIZE AWARDS FOR AFRICAN WRITING, 2026

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Application Deadline: on Friday, 27 February 2026 (12:00 GMT)

LOCATION: United Kingdom

The 2026 AKO Caine Prize Award for African Writing is open for application. Entries must be submitted by a publisher. This includes publishers of physical and digital books, literary journals, magazines, and arts-oriented websites.

ELIGIBILITY:

The story must have been published in the five years preceding the submission deadline. For 2026 eligibility, the judges will only consider work published between 27th February 2021 and 27th February 2026.

Entries must be between 3,000 and 10,000 words in length

Writers must be over 18 years of age at the time of submission.

Self-published and unpublished short stories are not eligible.

Publishers are encouraged to submit multiple short stories as long as they do not submit more than one story by the same author.

Stories may only be entered for consideration for the Caine Prize for African Writing once. Unfortunately, this means that you may not resubmit a story for consideration, even if it was not selected for the shortlist.

Genres not eligible for entry include novels, children’s stories, factual writing, academic essays, plays, poetry, autobiography/biography, and any work that does not constitute a fictional short story.

Submissions must specify which African country the author comes from and the short story word count.

Publishers must obtain the consent of the author before submitting the short story.

When submitting digitally published short stories, kindly provide a PDF version. Alternatively, you may instead provide a PDF containing a link to the publication.

Submissions that do not meet the above criteria will not be eligible for the prize. If you have any questions or queries regarding our eligibility criteria, please email: submissions@caineprize.com we will be happy to assist!

By submitting a story, publishers and writers agree to the conditions outlined above in the criteria, as well as those below in the Frequently Asked Questions section and Google Form. Shortlisted candidates will receive separate terms and conditions.

BENEFIT:

Up to £10,000 cash prizes are available to be won

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7TH INTERNATIONAL POSTER COMPETITION THEMED: “WE WANT JAZZ”

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Application Deadline: September 5, 2025, 11:59 p.m

LOCATION: Poland

The 7th international jazz competition was organized by the EUROJAZZ Foundation for the Popularization of Jazz Music, the publisher of the RadioJAZZ.FM online radio and the JazzPRESS magazine.

Theme: “We want Jazz”

ELIGIBILITY:

Entry is FREE.

The competition is open. We welcome both students and professionals.

The competition participants are asked to design a poster. The topic is “IN JAZZ WE HOPE.”

TECHNICAL PARAMETERS OF POSTERS: Each author may submit a maximum of 3 posters / dimensions: 70×100 cm (vertical) / file format: JPG / colors: CMYK / resolution: 200 dpi / Please note! SIGN FILE NAME: country_surname_first-name_poster-title.jpg

The poster does not have to include the competition title! Works that do not meet all technical parameters will not be evaluated by the jury!

DATES: Deadline for submitting works: September 5, 2025 / Competition results: September 2025 / Final exhibition of the competition: September 2025.

The organizers will select the submitted posters. Selecting 25 works from among them. Out of the selected 25 final posters, three winning posters will be chosen, whose authors will receive a final prize. The jury will also award distinctions. The selection of posters and the selection of winning work will be made by a jury appointed for this purpose, consisting of experts and representatives of the organizer. The results of the competition will be announced on September, 2025, on the website JAZZPRESS and on social media.

Please be advised that the author, by submitting his works, grants the organizer of the project, free of charge and for an indefinite period of time, a non-exclusive license to use the submitted works. Under the license, the organizer of the competition is authorized to use the works in all fields of exploitation known at the time of granting the license, in particular:

Recording and multiplying the works by creating copies of the work by printing, reprographics, magnetic recording, and digital techniques,

Lending or renting the original or copies of the work,

Publicly exhibiting, displaying, and making the works publicly available in such a way that everyone can access them at a place and time of their choice.

The project organizer may sublicense the use of the works to other entities in the scopes listed above. By submitting works to the exhibition, the participant declares that they have the proprietary copyrights to the work and its ’submitted digital version and agrees to publish their name, surname, and nationality.

Questions about the competition? Write to: wewantjazz@radiojazz.fm.

BENEFIT:

12 000 PLN which consists of the following:

1st prize—PLN 6,000

2nd prize—PLN 3,500

3rd prize—PLN 2,500

The amount of the prizes is the gross amount and will be reduced by the tax due on the prizes.

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