Call for Submissions for Tomorrow I’ll be Twenty Competition

Deadline: Sunday 18 June 2017
Prize: £100

Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou will be speaking at Africa Writes which is being held in London in July so AFREADA and Africa Writes are holding the Tomorrow I’ll be Twenty Competition, which invites writers to take the first line of Mabanckou’s short story “Tomorrow I’ll be Twenty” and continue the story:

We are inviting writers, anywhere and everywhere, to participate in a 500-word short story competition which is loosely based on Mabanckou’s amusing and heart-warming story, Tomorrow I’ll be Twenty. Told from the perspective of 10-year-old Michel living in Pointe Noire, Congo, the story begins:

In this country, a boss should always be bald and have a big belly. My uncle isn’t bald, he hasn’t got a big belly, and you don’t realise, the first time you see him, that he’s the actual boss of a big office in the centre of town…

The rules are simple: …open a Word Document and continue the story.

Submission guidelines: Africa Writes