Bessie Head writing competition back
Thursday, February 14, 2008
According to Dr Leloba Molema, who is a voting trustee of the Bessie Head Heritage Trust, the deadline for submissions is May 1. To entice more entries, the organisers and main sponsor Pentagon Publishers have increased the monetary prizes.
"This year, the winner in the novel category will get P 2,500, the short story winner, P 1,000, while the poetry winner will get P 1,000," says Molema.
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