Creative writing award: Benjamin Franklin House Literary Prize 2024

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30 October 2024
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The annual competition is for fiction and non-fiction by writers aged 18-25

Writers entering the prize are asked to explore the contemporary relevance of a quotation from Benjamin Franklin. The 2023 quote is:

'Truth will be Truth tho' it sometimes prove(s)... distasteful.' A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain (1725)

There is a first prize of £750 and a runner-up prize of £500. Winning entries will be published on the Benjamin Franklin House and Telegraph websites.

Enter original, unpublished fiction or non-fiction between 1,000 and 1,500 words.

Entry is free. Each writer may submit one entry.

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The closing date is 30 November.

For full details see the website.

 

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