Kannada Creative Writing Award 2017: Call for Entries (English Version)

TOTO AWARDS 2017

CREATIVE WRITING IN KANNADA

CALL FOR ENTRIES

Toto Funds the Arts (TFA) invites applications from persons between the ages of 18 and 29, for its seventh annual Toto Award for Creative Writing in Kannada in three genres: short plays, short stories and poetry. The winner, to be decided by an eminent panel, will get a cash award of 

Rs 30,000. Entries should reach TFA by 10 September 2016 at the latest.

***IMPORTANT UPDATE***

The deadline has been extended to 7 October, 2016.

The awards are meant only for Indian nationals resident in India (Overseas Citizen of India card-holders are not eligible.)  And, since the spirit of the awards is to identify promising young writers, you are eligible to apply if you were born on or after 1 January 1987. No exceptions will be made.

Each entry should be not more than 7,500 words.

If you are submitting poems, please send 6 to 10 poems.

If you are submitting short stories, their combined word length should be at least 2,500 words. You may, if you wish, send only a single story of 2,500 to 7,500 words.

For plays, you may submit a single play or two or three, but again their combined word length should not exceed 7,500 words.

You can send entries in all three categories — poems, short stories and plays — but you must send in a separate entry for each category. For example, your poems can constitute one entry, your short stories a second, and plays a third. Please submit only a hard copy of your entry or entries. Please state the awards category for which you are applying on the envelope, e.g., Writing-Kannada (poetry) or Writing-Kannada (play) or Writing-Kannada (short story). 

Entries should be sent by courier or ordinary post only (and NOT by speed or registered post) to the address below (the phone numbers supplied are for courier purposes only).  

Toto Funds the Arts (TFA)

H 301 Adarsh Gardens

47th Cross, 8th Block

Jayanagar

Bangalore 560 082

Phone 080 26990549/098806 23357

Each entry must be accompanied by a statement, signed by you, confirming your name, date of birth, whether your work has been published in print (give details), and also affirming that the submitted work is original. Please also give us your postal address, email ID, phone number (landline and mobile) and a short bio. Also ensure that no page of your submission carries your name on it. Your entries will be given code numbers to protect your identity from the jury.  

If you have any further queries please email sarita.tfaawards@gmail.com or call   +919844264157

Note: Submitted material will not be returned. The decision of the TFA jury will be final and cannot be contested in any forum. We reserve the right to use your submitted writings (if necessary) to publicise the awards either on our blog or in any in-house materials. Otherwise, the copyright rests with the writer and your submission will be put to no other use without your express permission. 

This award is supported by Bhoomija Trust.

Toto Funds the Arts is a not-for-profit public trust set up in memory of Angirus ‘Toto’ Vellani, who was intensely passionate about music, literature and films.