The Restless Books Competition for New Immigrant Writers with the Opportunity to Win $10,000

Restless Books offers the Restless Books award for new immigrant writing with the opportunity to win $10,000. The winner receives $10,000 and publication by Restless Books. The ethos of the modern world is defined by immigrants. Their stories have always been an essential component of the world's cultural consciousness, from Isaac Bashevis Singer to Isabel Allende, from Milan Kundera to Yiyun Li. In novels, short stories, memoirs, and works of journalism, immigrants have shown us what resilience and dedication we’re capable of, and have expanded our sense of what it means to be global citizens.

The winner receives $10,000 and publication by Restless Books.

• Fiction submissions can take the form of a novel or a book-length collection of short stories. Nonfiction submissions can take the form of a memoir, a collection of essays, or a book-length work of narrative nonfiction. The submission should address some combination of identity, the meeting of cultures and communities, immigration and migration, and today’s globalized society.
• Fiction manuscripts must be complete. Nonfiction submissions must consist of either a complete manuscript or a sample of at least 25,000 words and a detailed proposal that includes a synopsis and an annotated table of contents. All submissions must be in English (translations welcome). 
• Candidates must be first-generation residents of their country. “First-generation” can refer either to people born in another country who relocated or to residents of a country whose parents were born elsewhere.
• Fiction candidates must not have previously published a book of fiction in English. Nonfiction candidates must not have previously published a book of nonfiction in English. The competition encourages applicants to look at the other titles Restless has published and previous contest winners to get a sense of the competition's aesthetic.
• The competition will accept only one submission per candidate per submission period, and submissions must be under the author’s real name, not under a pseudonym.
• Candidates may not submit the same manuscript for the Prize in subsequent years unless specifically invited by Restless.
• Restless reserves the right to invite writers to submit for the prize.
• There is no fee to submit a manuscript for consideration.

About Restless Books:

Restless Books is an independent, nonprofit publisher devoted to championing essential voices from around the world, whose stories speak to us across linguistic and cultural borders. It seeks extraordinary international literature that feeds our restlessness: our hunger for new perspectives, passion for other cultures and languages, and eagerness to explore beyond the confines of the familiar.

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