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Overview
| Donor: | Commonwealth Foundation |
| Application procedure: | Online Application |
| Donor base: | United Kingdom |
| Reference number: | - |
| Eligible applicants: | Individual |
| Deadline: | 01.11.2025 |
Financial details
| Grant size: | Small - up to $100,000 |
| Minimum grant size: | - |
| Total available budget: | - |
| Funding type: | Grants |
| Maximum grant size: | 5.000GBP |
| Funding ratio: | 100% |
Sectors
- Arts & Culture
- Capacity Building
Project Locations
Africa
Cameroon, Eswatini, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia
America
Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia
Asia
Bangladesh, Brunei, India, Malaysia, Maldives, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Pacific
Kiribati, Samoa
Description
1) Objective
The Commonwealth Foundation’s mission is to support civic voices to share their stories, learn and act together and influence the institutions that shape people’s lives. The Foundation works to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development with effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels of participatory governance which implies creative and constructive engagement between civil society and other governance stakeholders. They see their programmes, contributing to Sustainable Development Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
The search for some of the Commonwealth’s best short stories has begun again. The prize is free to enter and open to any citizen of a Commonwealth country aged 18 and over. It is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words). The prize is only open to short fiction, but it can be in any fiction genre–science fiction, speculative fiction, historical fiction, crime, romance, literary fiction–and you may write about any subject you wish.
2) Eligibility
Commonwealth citizens aged 18 and over can enter a short story of 2,000-5,000 words for a chance to win £5,000.
3) Location
The Commonwealth Foundation is operational worldwide in countries which are currently members of the Commonwealth Foundation.
4) Budget
Grants may range up to £5,000.
5) Application
Entries are open from 1 September – 1 November every year.