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QUATAR UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP

Application Deadline: 18 October 2023

LOCATION: Quatar

Quatar Uinversity welcomes international students of outstanding academic performance to apply for scholarship opportunities in the institution. Application opens on 8 October, 2023.

ELIGIBILITY:

The applicant must have a high school certificate or its equivalent.

A minimum high school average of 95%.

Applicant must receive the final acceptance in the university.

The applicant must meet the admission requirements for the college that they applied to.

The scholarship should be utilized starting from the semester in which the scholarship was awarded. The start of the study can be postponed for one semester, if necessary, conditional of approval of the scholarship committee. If the student does not pass his/her first semester, the scholarship will be canceled and the student will be informed by QU email.

Applicant must have a good reputation.

Applicant should not get benefit from this scholarship and another sponsorship/scholarship simultaneously.

BENEFIT:

Exemption from tuition fees

Exemption from textbook fees

500 QR monthly salary

Student housing (two students per room) including transportation to/from campus.

Annual round trip air fare ticket

Residence permit under QU sponsorship

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COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION SHORT STORY PRIZE

Application Deadline: 1 November, 2023

LOCATION: London, United Kingdom

The 2024 Prize will open for submissions from 1 September 2023 to 1 November 2023. The prize is free to enter and open to any citizen of a Commonwealth country aged 18 and over. It is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction

ELIGIBILITY:

The prize is open to all Commonwealth citizens aged 18 and over –  please see the full list of Commonwealth countries here.

The story must be between 2,000 and 5,000 words.

The prize is only open to short fiction, but it can be in any fiction genre–science fiction, speculative fiction, historical fiction, crime, romance, literary fiction–and you may write about any subject you wish.

Submissions are accepted in Bengali, Chinese, Creole, English, French, Greek, Malay, Maltese, Portuguese, Samoan, Swahili, Tamil, and Turkish. Stories that have been translated into English from any language are also accepted and the translator of any winning story receives additional prize money.

Your submission must be unpublished in any print or online publication, with the exception of personal websites.

BENEFIT:

The regional winners receive £2,500 and the overall winner receives a total of £5,000.

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