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The Vani Foundation will award Fellowships each of Rs. 20,000 to two writers and two illustrators of children’s books at Jumpstart 2014. The winners also get to attend a Jumpstart 2014 Masterclass.
Fellowship Mentors:
Gulzar Sahib - poet, filmmaker and Academy award winning lyricist
Paro Anand - renowned children’s author
Application guidelines:
Submissions are invited from writers in Hindi, English and other Indian languages.
One of the two awards for writers will be allocated to a Hindi language writer.
Writers
- Please submit previously unpublished work
- Please label your work under one of the following themes
- Fantasy, ghost and monster stories
- Reality Fiction
- Graphic novels and Comic books (5 – 6 layouts)
- Please categorize your content based on the age group
- 4 years – 8 years
- 9 years – 12 years (Tweens)
- 13 years – 16 years (Young Adults)
- Short stories submitted will have to be the complete unpublished work.
- The word limit for longer works of fiction/ non-fiction is 2000 words. Please include a synopsis.
- Please email your submissions to fellowship.w@jumpstartfest.com
Illustrators
- Please submit five previously published or unpublished illustrations.
- Please email your submissions to fellowship.i@jumpstartfest.com
The deadline for submissions is 06:00 am, Monday, Aug 18, 2014.