TOTO AWARDS 2024
CREATIVE WRITING IN ENGLISH
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Toto Funds the Arts (TFA) invites applications from persons between the ages of 18 and 29 for the 2024 TOTO Awards for Creative Writing in English in three genres: short plays, short stories and poetry.
To mark the twentieth year of the TOTO Awards, the cash prize for the each of the two winners has been increased to Rs 60,000. The winners will be decided by an independent panel of jurors. Soft copies of the entries should reach TFA by 20 September 2023 at the latest.
These awards are meant only for Indian citizens 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 can apply if your birthday falls between 1 January 1994 and 1 January 2006. No exceptions will be made.
The soft copy of each entry MUST be accompanied by a completed Application Form, which can be obtained from the link below. No entry will be accepted without this form, with all particulars filled in, along with your name as it appears in your bank account, and signature.
Entries should be sent in 12 pt Times New Roman, with 1.5 line space.
We prefer unpublished work.
If you are submitting poems, please send us a minimum of 10 poems (maximum combined word length 7500 words).
If you are submitting short stories, you must send a minimum of 2 stories. An entry with only a single short story will not be accepted. The combined word length of your submission should comprise a minimum of 3,500 words and a maximum of 7,500.
For plays, you may submit one or more plays, but the combined word length of your entry should not exceed 10,000 words.
You can send entries in all three categories — poetry, 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 the second entry, and plays a third.
Those who have applied previously are eligible to apply again (unless you have won this TOTO Award) but please submit new work for consideration.
The subject line of your email should clearly state the category for which you are applying, e.g., Writing-English (poetry) or Writing-English (short fiction), or Writing-English (plays).
Your entry and application form should be sent as separate attachments on your email (MS Word document only) to toto.tfaawards@gmail.com
Also ensure that apart from the Application Form, your name does not appear ANYWHERE on your submission - either on any page or in the title of your MS Word document.
If you have any further questions, please write to the email address given above.
The Fine Print: 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, website or in any in-house materials such as a newsletter. Otherwise, the copyright rests with the writer and your submission will be put to no other use without your express permission.
These awards are being supported by the Mani Rao Foundation and Naboneeta Majumdar (in memory of Dipali and Nitai Majumdar)
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. TFA encourages and supports young emerging talent in the arts in India
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