Following the close of the Kwani Manuscript Project, 282 unpublished fiction manuscripts were submitted from 19 African countries. They include at least five submissions from Rwanda, Zambia, Cameroon and Zimbabwe, more than 10 submissions from Botswana, Ghana and Uganda, over 20 submissions from both South Africa and the Diaspora, and over 65 submissions from both Kenya and Nigeria.
Over 50 per cent of the submissions were sent two weeks before the September 17 deadline. To do justice to this response and to the writers who shared their work, the organisers have decided to allot more time for reading and judging.
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