Travis is on the jury for the 2019 Büro BDP Writing Prize.

Büro BDP is delighted to announce its inaugural Writing Prize, a prize dedicated to excellent new international writing that displays progressive and bold qualities in both form and content. Envisaged as a prize that takes its inspiration from the unique, cosmopolitan and open city of Berlin and its inhabitants the award will result in a book publication.

It is envisioned that this is a reward for the best contemporary (and for want of a better word) creative writing that is formally innovative, genre bending and which may point toward a 21st century supra-national tradition that is continually in the process of emerging. A familiarity with the BDP backlist may point toward the arena of literature and contemporary art in which the press is interested in producing.
The shortlist will be selected by the BDP team from which the jury shall choose a winner. The juries will judge these shortlisted entries anonymously.

Prize

1st Prize: 1000 euro cash prize

The winner will have an opportunity to publish a book with Broken Dimanche Press in 2020 and excerpts from the shortlisted entries will be collected together in a journal, which will be published at the time of the prize giving.

Judges

• Ida Benke, curator and senior editor of Broken Dimanche Press
• John Holten, novelist and editor-in-chief of Broken Dimanche Press
• Travis Jeppesen, artist and writer
• Quinn Latimer, poet and critic

Entry

The prize is open to anyone who who is resident in the EU and Associated Agreement countries

Entries should take the form of:

• A writing sample of up to 5000 words or up to 50 pages.
• A description of the overall book
• CV or biographical note with contact email
• Order Number as proof of payment of entry fee (https://www.brokendimanche.eu/shop-1/the-2019-bro-bdp-writing-prize)

Entry fee is 7 euros. This goes towards running costs of the prize and its viable continued existence in the future.

Email bdpwritingprize@gmail.com

Deadline: midnight May 31, 2019

Timeline

The deadline is May 31, 2019 at 19h.

The shortlist will be announced in June.

The winner will be announced at a party at Babes Bar in Berlin in July.

For more info, visit the Broken Dimanche website.