Competition: Give Your Best Short

NaijaStories.com is pleased to announce another online writing contest titled “Give us your best Short” to be judged by Chika Unigwe. We want to read your best short story. You can write in any genre, but bear in mind the five elements of a short story – Plot, Point of View, Character, Setting, and Theme. Conflict is not compulsory but it gives your story that extra oomph. They are looking for really good shorts and winners may be selected for the next NS Anthology. So, Give Us Your Best Short!

About the Judge

Chika Unigwe is an award winning Nigerian author based in Belguim. Chika’s novel, On Black Sisters’ Street, recently won the 2012 NLNG Literature Prize for Fiction. She won the 2003 BBC Short Story Competition for her story “Borrowed Smile”, a Commonwealth Short Story Award for “Weathered Smiles” and a Flemish literary prize for “De Smaak van Sneeuw”, her first short story written in Dutch. 

Important Dates

The contest opens November 21 and submissions end on December 20, 2012.

Release of the Longlisted Stories – January 5th

First Round Polls and Naijastories Scoring- January 6th – 12th

Shortlist released – January 13th

Public Choice Ratings – Jan 14th to January 19th

Final Judging – January 14th to January 20th 2013

The winner will be announced by January 21st 2013.

Prizes :

First Prize – 200,000 points ($200)

Second Prize – 100,000 points ($100)

Third Prize – 50,000 points ($50)

2 Public Choice Winners – 25,000 points (25) each

Contest Guidelines:

• You must be a registered member of Naijastories.com.
• Submit your entry as a post with a title that illustrates your entry.
• In the body of the post, provide a 1 or 2 sentence summary of your short story and then the complete story;
• Your entry should be between 1000 and 2500 words.
• Put the entry in the category of “Best Short” and press the button, “Submit for Review”.

Find out more details about the competition here