UJ Arts and Culture and the Johannesburg Institute for Advance Study (JIAS) at the University of Johannesburg have launched a writing competition.
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Short-form writing in any language that expresses experiences of Johannesburg’s public spaces is eligible.
Submissions should be maximum 4 000 words in length, with no minimum word limit, and can be fiction or non-fiction in any literary form including poetry, prose, play or a film script.
Authors from all age groups are welcome but must be previously unpublished.
The writing should describe, discuss or be set in a specific public space somewhere in greater Johannesburg.
Three entries will be selected by a panel for cash prizes of R2 000 each.
One work will be chosen to be paired alongside an excerpt from an established literary work set in Johannesburg, with both texts being used as inspiration for a site-specific public performance to be produced by UJ Arts & Culture in May 2023.
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Funding dependent, a selection of entries may, in due course, be published in book form.
To submit an entry for the competition fill in the online application form available at https://arts.uj.ac.za/news/
The closing deadline for submissions is midnight on November 30, 2022.
No late submissions will be considered.
For more information, please visit arts.uj.ac.za and/or https://jias.joburg/
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