The Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry is Open for Entries

Deadline: 1 October 2016
Prize: USD $5,000

The Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry is open for submissions. Last year’s prize was won by PEN SA member Kobus Moolman for his collection, A Book of Rooms.

Press release:

The Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry, now in it’s third year, is looking for submissions. This Pan-African Poetry Prize, established to promote African poetry written in English or in translation and to recognize a significant book published each year by an African poet, is the only one of its kind in the world. The author of the winning book will receive an award of USD $5,000. The prize is open to any book of original poetry published in English during the previous calendar year in a standard edition of a full-length collection of poetry written by any African writer. An “African writer” is taken to mean someone who was born in Africa, who is a national or resident of an African country, or whose parents are African. This year’s prize will be judged by Matthew Shenoda, author of Somewhere Else, Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone, and Tahrir Suite, and founding editor of the African Poetry Book Fund. To submit a book for consideration, please send four copies of each entry to the following address, postmarked between May 1 and October 1, 2016:

The Glenna Luschei Poetry Prize
The African Poetry Book Fund
Prairie Schooner
110 Andrews Hall
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0334

Click here for more information, and if you have any additional questions, email
africanpoetrybf@unl.edu. Stay tuned for more information on the finalists and the winner, to be announced in December.

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(Image courtesy of African Poetry Book Fund)