The eighth annual Christopher Hewitt Award is open to entries of fiction, poetry, drama and creative non fiction. The contest honours the first literary editor of A&U magazine and aims to ‘showcase outstanding responses to the AIDS pandemic and the realities of individuals living with or affected by HIV/AIDS’.
Fiction and non fiction entries should be a maximum 1,200 words and be double spaced. Drama submissions should be a ten-minute, maximum ten pages play of 1,400-1,600 words using Dramatists Guild format (www. dramatistsguild.com/script-formats). An excerpt from a longer work will be considered and this should include a separate page with a synopsis and full character cast list. No restrictions on length are given for poetry.