translated from Spanish: Second edition of the Stimulus to Writing Award launched

The “All Time 2021” Writing Stimulus Award competition is launched, aimed at writers, screenwriters, playwrights, cartoonists and illustrators aged 20 to 40 from across the country. The initiative, which was born in the context of the pandemic, is organized by the Bunge y Born Foundation, Fundación Proa and the newspaper La Nación and awards the stimulus prize to five winners in the categories of fiction, non-fiction, dramaturgy, screenplay and graphic narrative, and mentions. The jury is composed of the essayist and critic Pablo Gianera; the renowned journalist and writer Leila Guerriero, the filmmaker Mariano Llinás and the writer Ariana Harwicz.La call will be open until September 16 inclusive, and in November 2021 the winners and mentions will be announced. All those interested can see more information and registration here.

Among the requirements is to be Argentine or have permanent residence for at least five years and be between 20 and 40 years old at the time of registration. On the other hand, the project of work must be unpublished and of exclusive authorship or in co-authorship, or projects of group work of a maximum of four people. And the delivery time of the finished work will be five months. The jury will award five prizes and will distinguish with a special mention up to 15 projects of work with potential and their authors will attend the writing clinics that will be given again by the writers Alan Pauls and Romina Paula -between March and April 2022-, with the aim of continuing to work their work from the interdisciplinary crossing between authors of different genres and formats. In the first edition more than 1100 projects from 23 provinces were presented and the winners were Valentino Cappelloni in the fiction category, Julia Inés Mamone in graphic novel and Lucas Mertehikian in non-fiction, Lucas Schujman in screenplay, among other awards given.

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