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CONRAD N. HILTON FOUNDATION NOMINATION FOR HUMANITARIAN PRIZE

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Application Deadline: April 30, 2024

LOCATION: USA

Every year, they receive hundreds of nominations from around the world for the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize. Nominations for the Hilton Humanitarian Prize are open year-round. The Prize year for which the organization will be considered is determined by when we receive the organization’s nomination.

ELIGIBILITY:

Nominees must be organizations, not individuals.

Nominees must be established, nongovernmental, publicly supported charitable organizations. U.S. Internal Revenue Service tax-exempt status—or the equivalent for international organizations—will determine eligibility. (International nominees will be contacted by the Foundation for appropriate documentation.)

Nominees must be legally established for at least five years in order to be considered.

Nominees must have their own audited financial statements for at least five consecutive years.

Nominees must have expenditures greater than U.S. $750,000 in their most recent audited fiscal year of operation.

Nominees may not be a Hilton Humanitarian Prize Laureate or a local office or member organization of a Prize Laureate.

Nominees may not be local offices or member organizations of parent organizations or fiscally sponsored organizations.

Nominees may not be specific programs within organizations or university-based projects.

Nominees may not be academic institutions, such as colleges or universities that provide educational degrees, however, nominees may be an affiliate of academic institutions so long as they maintain an independent tax-exempt status, or equivalent for international organizations, and produce their own audited financials. 

Submission dates:
2025 Prize: January 2024 – April 30, 2024
2026 Prize: May 1, 2024 – April 30, 2025
2027 Prize: May 1, 2025 – April 30, 2026

BENEFIT:

$2.5 million

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THE CAINE PRIZE FOR AFRICAN WRITING

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Application Deadline: Sunday 31st March 2024 (12:00 GMT).

LOCATION: England

Applications for the The Caine Prize for African Writing are open. The aim of the program is to bring Afican writing to a wider audience using one annual literary award.

ELIGIBILITY:

The story must have been published in the five years preceding the submissions deadline. For 2024 eligibility, the judges will only consider work published between 1st April 2019 and 25th March 2024.

Entries must be more than 3,000 words or less than 10,000 words.

Entries must be submitted by a publisher. This includes publishers of physical and digital books, literary journals, magazines, and arts oriented websites.

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 re-submit 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 are required to upload a ‘publisher’s letter’ with each submission. See program website for more information.

BENEFIT:

£10,000 prize to be won.

The winner and shortlisted writers will be invited to participate in events in Africa, London and elsewhere should resources and circumstances permit. In these cases, there will be travel award granted to each of the shortlisted candidates.

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