Submissions to the 2021 Ruritania Prize for fiction are now open! The 2021 Ruritania Prize is organized by the Panel magazine. They accept and publish
The 2021 Ruritania prize For Fiction
Submissions to the 2021 Ruritania Prize for fiction are now open! The 2021 Ruritania Prize is organized by the Panel magazine. They also accept and publish writers works in their issues.
According to the organizer:
"The Ruritania Prize is a prize for those writing from a place that doesn't exist, English-speakers who are struggling to find their role in a contradictory literary tradition which is simultaneously patronizing and affectionate. Its judges are drawn from a variety of major Central and Eastern European cities, to better reflect the real diversity of the lands in which the Ruritanian romances were (and are) set."
The rationale behind the 2021 Ruritania prize:
In 1894 Anthony Hope published The Prisoner of Zenda. Set in the fictional kingdom of Ruritania, it was a swash-buckling adventure that involved mistaken identities in a small Eastern European country. The book, which became a bestseller, spawned a genre, the Ruritanian Romance. These were books and films—sometimes unselfconscious capers, sometimes self-aware parodies—that were set in imaginary countries that were supposed to exist somewhere in Central and Eastern Europe. Other notable entries included Frances Hodgson Brunett's The Lost Prince (Samavia), The Marx Brothers' Duck Soup (Freedonia) and Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire (Zembla).Ruritanian fiction has always been emblematic of the West's view of Central and Eastern Europe, crowded by small, unstable states that are full of breathless intrigue, unusual customs and ethnic strife. For those of us that inhabit the real places these fictional countries are said to occupy, the genre is a reminder of the misapprehensions and prejudices of the West, as well as the resonant absurdities of life in the East.
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Submission Guidelines For The 2021 Ruritania prize For Fiction
Submissions should be between 1000 and 4500 words and written in English, translated or otherwise, so long as they are previously unpublished.
Prizes
The first place winner will receive 350 euros and publication in Panel’s issue #8.
Second and third place will receive 50 and 20 euros respectively, and will be closely considered for publication.
The judges for the 2021 Ruritania prize are:
- Shel Merlow, the 3rd winner of the 2020 Ruritania prize (Prague)
- Jayde Will, a writer and literary translator (Riga)
- Duncan Robertson, a novelist and editor of Panel (Budapest)
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