Polirom publishing house is starting the annual Debut Contest, 2024 edition, Prose section. Writers have two months to enter the competition, which carries the prize of publication of the winning volume.
The debut Polirom competition takes place every year. PHOTO: Unsplash
Manuscripts participating in the contest (without CV) will be attached to an e-mail, from an account created for this occasion, and sent to the address: [email protected], by April 1, 2024. E-mail address mail can be the motto of the volume, a fragment of the motto or the title of the book. Example: [email protected]/gmail.com etc.
It is very important that the e-mail address, the e-mail and the attached manuscript do not contain the competitor's name in any way – otherwise it will lead to disqualification.
Manuscripts must be a minimum of 150,000 characters (including spaces) and be completed by the date of submission. Manuscripts from authors who have previously been included in anthologies or published in collective volumes are also accepted. Manuscripts of writers who have published as sole authors other volumes, regardless of their type, are not accepted. Manuscripts without diacritics are not accepted. Unpublished manuscripts will be deleted.
The winner of the contest will be announced in June 2024, to the email address from which the manuscript was sent, and the result will be made public after contacting the author.
The prize for the manuscript declared the winner consists of its publication and launch at the Gaudeamus Book Fair.
Winners of previous editions:
Alex Olteanu, Short Treatise on Animals Working from Home (2023);
Irina Anghel, The Beggars' Banquet (2022): Prize of the First Roman Festival in Chambéry, France, 2023 edition;
Teodor L. Nedeianu, Kafka's Jacket (2021): Young Writer of the Year Award, Young Writers Gala/Poetry Book of the Year 2021;
Ema Stere, Copiii lui Marcel (2020): Romanian Writers Union Award, Debut section, 2021 edition • Sofia Nădejde Award for Literature Written by Women, 2020 edition, in the Debut-Prose section; § Roxana Dumitrache, Papa Nicolau and other very, very short stories (2019);
Iulian Bocai, The strange and touching life of Priță Barsacu (2018): Prize of the First Novel Festival in Chambéry, France, 2019 edition • “Observator cultural” magazine prize for Debut, 2019 edition; § Alexandru Done, Downshifting (2017): Romanian Writers' Union Award for 2017, Debut section.
