The winner of the 2017 Berlin Writing Prize will be offered the opportunity of a month-long writing residency at the Circus Hotel in Berlin.
The competition is for prose up to 3,000 words on the theme of Home is Elsewhere. Entries may be fiction or non-fiction.
As well as the month-long residency at an apartment in the Circus Hotel, the winner will receive a month’s-worth of breakfast vouchers and up to €100 to help with their travel costs to Berlin. The winning entry will be published in SAND Journal and in The Reader Berlin anthology. Two runners up will each win two nights at Circus Hotel and €100, and their entries will be published online and in a Reader Berlin anthology. Seven further shortlisted writers will receive Reader Berlin goodie bags and anthology publication.