The Brittle Paper Awards is back for the 2018 edition. We are opening up the nomination process to the public. Anyone can nominate works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and essays or think pieces for consideration by our editorial team.

ELIGIBILITY

1. All kinds of essays and think pieces, poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by Africans, or about the African literary scene, are eligible.
2. Such works published on any platform, literary or pop culture or otherwise, are eligible.
3. Eligible works must have first appeared online between 1 August, 2017 and 31 August, 2018. Works published in print before this window but which appear online within it are eligible.
4. Eligible works must be available for free online. Availability is necessary as the Awards are an invitation to the literary community to consider nominated pieces.
5. Works in online anthologies can be nominated provided the anthologies are accessible for free.
6. We can only consider works in the English language.

HOW TO MAKE A NOMINATION

Send an email to brittlepaperawards@gmail.com with the header “BPA 2018 Nomination.” The email is to contain only the following:

1. Title of the nominated piece.
2. Name of nominated author.
3. Category for consideration.
4. Link to nominated piece. In the case of an anthology, include the link to the anthology.

A nomination email can contain more than one nomination.

The nomination period is from 9 July, 2018 to 31 August, 2018.

The shortlists will be announced in September. Visit https://brittlepaper.com/2018/07/nominations-open-2018-brittle-paper-literary-awards/ for further details