Literary Competition

The Women's International Association for the Communication

calls
a literary competition for:

The competition is addressed to young woman writers,
(maximum 35 years old),and to woman writers
making their debut in their first literary experience
(without age limit).

The competition will be divided in two session:

(4-5 pages, 30 lines each)                       (minimum 100 pages)

The theme of the competition is

The general plan of the competition is about one’s own personal experience:
it is necessary to write stories in the first person, stories about relationships marked by sexual difference;
direct testimonies about life in their own place and about “movings” towards others places, towards other realities.
The conflicts inside and outside to oneself constitute the plot about which to develop the story.
The choice of this theme is born from the consciousness that in the world
wars and conflicts are more and more frequent and numerous.
Many of these conflicts don’t create a stir and the public opinion has short knowledge about their tragic consequences. Their results, whether these wars are far from our cities or in Balkan region and in Middle East, are observed up to our houses; they reverberate on our governments’ economic and political choices,
on our customs and behaviours, on the kind of relationships we establish.
Our society, that we consider ‘democratic’, is animated by class struggles,
cultural and social contrasts, religious, racial, family and generational antagonisms. The participants can choose the theme of the conflicts in its different acceptations and shades of meanings:
from the pure wars to debates about international law;
from the social conflicts to the individual,inner ones;
from the faraway wars to the conflicts that originate inside home o in a detentive context.