iReason Publishers launch Debut Authors’ Prize

Through this prize, the award-winning writer says he wants to help young authors who are being "ignored or passed on" by major publishing outlets. Keitsemang explained that he knew a lot of talented writers whose works he feel deserves to be seen, but do not have the opportunity to get published. Therefore, the iReason Debut Authors’ Prize was created to represent the soul of what they do, publishing untamed voices from nontraditional corners and providing a literary home for new talent.

“The goal is to promote stories that are not being heard. Stories by the ‘misfits’; the children, the queer, the skeptics, the women, those living with disabilities and everyone else who is ever been told that what marks them out as different means they do not matter. From these stories, we hope to find the writer within which the new generation can find an ambassador,” he explained.