The International Children’s Peace Prize 2022

The International Children’s Peace Prize is awarded annually to a child who fights courageously for children’s rights. 

The prize was launched by KidsRights during the 2005 World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates at the Capitol in Rome, chaired by Mikhail Gorbachev. Since then, the prize has been presented every year by a Nobel Peace Laureate. The International Children’s Peace Prize is an initiative of Marc Dullaert, Chairman and Founder of the KidsRights Foundation.

Benefits

The “Nkosi” statuette which depicts a child that sets the world in motion

A study and care grant to enable the child to obtain an education

A project fund of € 100.000, which is invested by KidsRights in relevant children’s rights projects that are closely connected to the winner’s area of work.

In addition, winning the International Children’s Peace Prize gives the winner a global platform to promote their work. For example, the message of Nav and Vhiaan, the winner of 2021, reached 3.5 billion people all over the world!

Eligibilities

The nomination requirements are the following:
Any person above the age of 18 or an organization can nominate a child
The child must be between the age of 12 and 17 by the time of the nomination deadline
The child can be from any country in the world
The child must have a demonstrable history of standing up and fighting for the rights of children, including himself or herself
The child needs to be able to travel abroad and feel comfortable communicating with other people.
The child agrees to being nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize.

Eligible Regions: Open For All 

APPLICATION PROCESS

The powerful and heartening stories of all the nominees will be posted on their website, and some of them will also be posted on their social media platforms (with the authorization of the parents/guardians). This way, they aim to create a buzz for children’s rights and to inspire as many people as possible!

1. Download the nomination form from the Apply Now link.
2. Complete the form.
3. For more details, please visit the Main Website. 

Application Deadline: March 1, 2022 

Bristol Short Story Prize UK 2019

The Bristol Short Story Prize aims to publish great short stories and promote the stories and writers as much as possible. 
Discovering previously unpublished writers is central to their aims and they are absolutely committed to celebrating the short story genre and making it accessible and available to as wide an audience as they can.

The Bristol Short Story Prize was founded by the editors of the quarterly cultural magazine Bristol Review of Books in 2007.

Aims:
To publish a brilliant short story anthology every year full of fresh and original stories, and to get it stocked in as many bookshops as possible. This includes high street chains, independent shops, and online booksellers.

To inspire and encourage writers.
To discover and promote previously unpublished writers.
To provide an opportunity for writers to get published.
To share the enthusiasm for short stories in as many ways and with as many people as possible.
To establish Bristol as a short story centre.
To raise the profile, support and raise funds for Bristol Review of Books magazine.

They have published a huge range of stories in first 11 anthologies – stories set throughout history from ancient Greece to the present day, and beyond to imagined futures. 
There have been stories narrated by octogenarians, by children not yet a decade old, and others with narrators and protagonists at all stages of life in between. 
Stories written in the first, second and third persons, with the broadest sweep of styles and genres from the familiar to the obscure: historical, romance, literary, science fiction, harsh realism, surreal flights of fancy, tense thrillers, comic capers, ‘experimental’ tales, sparsely written hammer blows of what some might call flash fiction and lots more. 
Stories set in countries all over the globe, written by writers worldwide. There have been high, mid and low brow stories; stories written as blog posts, album reviews, in verse, as diaries, as a series of emails, as well as a sumptuous crop of the more traditional; stories of 4,000 words and those with just a few hundred, one of which won first prize in 2010.

They are inviting to show what’s possible in a short story, what a short story can be, what a story can do and what ‘short story’ means to you.

You’re the writer, it’s up to you what you do. It’s your story. They will read every submission with the same objectivity, respect and relish.

Benefits
Each of the 2019 Bristol Short Story Prize shortlisted authors will receive 2 free copies of the paperback version of Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 12 and will be able to purchase further copies at a discount of 50%.

All 2019 Bristol Short Story prize shortlisted writers will be able to purchase any number of copies of any volume of Bristol Short Story Prize Anthologies at a discount of 50%.

Prizes for 2019 are: 
1st prize-£1000, 
2nd prize -£500, 
3rd prize -£250. 
Each of the 17 remaining shortlisted writers will receive £100.

The winning story will also be published in the print edition of Bristol 24/7 magazine in November 2019.

 An additional prize of £100, The Sansom Award, in recognition of the contribution to Bristol publishing of John and Angela Sansom, will be presented to the highest placed story by a Bristol writer.

Eligibilities
Open to all published and unpublished writers. 
There is no geographical restriction on entry – the 2019 Bristol Short Story Prize is open to everyone, whether they are based in the UK or outside the UK
Entrants must be over 16 years old on the closing date
Open for All

Application Deadline: April 30, 2019 

Website
https://goo.gl/SWYsFb

Application Form
https://goo.gl/XsNNpf