Here’s a message from the Brooklyn Caribbean Literature Pageant (BCLF) staff saying the BCLF Brief Fiction Story Contest:
Diaspora Individuals,
We’re approaching the start of Could and around the BCLF neighbourhood, meaning contest season is drawing nigh. It feels prefer it was simply final week we have been crying, “We Exterior!” with exultant pleasure, not so?
This 12 months, our pleasure is even larger. 2023 marks 5 (5) years of the BCLF. Yep, that’s proper. Is we birthday. And a few of the finest issues within the Caribbean are available 5s. 5 finger (carambola), frangipani and hibiscus instantly come to thoughts.
Internally to our organisation, we’re thrumming with delight over the fifth chapter of the BCLF Brief Fiction Story Contest for Caribbean-American and Caribbean writers.
We open for entries on Could 1st, 2023 as traditional and we’re sending this advance discover simply because we love you all a lot.
Mud off your journals. Tidy these manuscripts. Hem and tuck these tales saved to your drafts. This 12 months is your 12 months. There is no such thing as a tomorrow, there’s solely at the moment. These tales received’t inform themselves. We’d like to crown you our winner.
Celebrating Previous Entrants of BCLF Brief Fiction Story Contest
This 12 months we’re all too proud to say that some previous entrants of our contest have gone on to take their place out within the writing world, and if this doesn’t function impetus to mud your manuscript(s) off, we don’t know what is going to.
The Commonwealth Brief Story Prize shortlist for 2023 included works by authors from Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, and the Bahamas, three of whom submitted to our contest within the final two years: Alexia Tolas (2022 winner), Cosmata Lindie (2022 entrant), and Deborah Matthews (2021 entrant).
Our 2021 winner, Ahkim Alexis, was a finalist in Repair’s annual Think about 2200 climate-fiction quick story contest with “The Lexicographer and One Tree Island.” Sharma Taylor, who made the BCLF 2021 shortlist printed her e book, What A Mom’s Love Don’t Educate You in 2022. Cleyvis Natera was a BCLF 2019 finalist printed Neruda on the Park in 2022.
With all this stated, you understand what it is advisable to do. We stay up for your submission for 2023!
For extra data, see https://www.bklyncbeanlitfest.com/