The Prototype Prize is a new, biennial prize for published or unpublished writers and artists resident in the UK or Ireland who are working at the intersections of different literary and artistic forms. Free to enter.
The Prize awards £3,000 plus publication by Prototype to the best book-length project, and a second prize of £2,000 plus publication by Monitor Books to the best short-form work. Both prize-winners will also have an excerpt of their work published by frieze.
Fiction, poetry and non-fiction prose are all eligible, with no restrictions on style, form or subject-matter, with interdisciplinary approaches particularly welcomed. We welcome submissions of work that interrogate the boundaries of established formal, narrative and genre conventions. We are interested in text-based work that can appear on the printed page as well as work that might be extended into other media, such as film, audio, exhibition or performance. Submissions open to individuals and collaborative projects.
The judges for the inaugural prize are Bhanu Kapil, Tom McCarthy and Elizabeth Price, who will work alongside an editorial board from the publishers.
The Prototype Prize is being run in conjunction with an adjacent development programme in partnership with New Writing North.
The Prototype Prize is supported by Shane Akeroyd, Sadie Coles and Emmanuel Roman, and by public funding from Arts Council England.
Find out more here.
Deadline: 23:59 on 1 February 2024