Closed: 2016 New Voices Mentorship Competition

Deadline: July 30, 2016 (extended from July 20)

The 2016 New Voices Mentorship Competition, organized by New Contrast, is now open for submission until July 30.

A poet or author will win in each language category: IsiXhosa, English or Afrikaans, a total of three winners. The winners will be mentored for 3 months by an established poet or author. Prose winners shall produce a short story during the mentorship. And poets will be expected to produce up to three poems. The pieces will be published in New Contrast’s special Rising Stars Edition, summer 2016.

Submit no more than three poems or one short story or a prose extract. No multiple submissions please! Send entries to its Submittable page, with a reference in the cover letter to 2016 New Voices Mentorship Competition.

Contributions must be previously unpublished. The preferred file types are .DOC or .DOCX. Also acceptable are .ODT, .RTF, or .TXT files. Each piece (poem, short story, review etc.) must be in a separate document. In the case of poems that are part of a set that needs to be published together, these should be submitted as a single document.

Each document must have your name in the header or footer. If the document exceeds a page, the pages must be numbered in the header or footer. Please include a 50 word biography and your postal address.

Winners will be contacted directly. The judges’ decision is final.

Eligibility: Only New Contrast subscribers are eligible. Students who take up the 50% off subscription are eligible.