The JJ Bola Emerging Writers Prize comes with £1,000 and a contract at the Pontas Agency, and is geared to writers from ‘Black, ethnic minority, LGBTQ+, and working-class backgrounds.’
Submission Deadline: March 15
The Pontas Literary and Film Agency in Spain will have been in business for 29 years in May, and in a new announcement provided to Publishing Perspectives, Maria Cardona there tells us that the company is opening submissions for a new support-award for writers, one that provides both some money and mentoring.
[Pontas Agency] Named the Pontas and JJ Bola Emerging Writers Prize, the program expects to provide a £1,000 grant (US$1,365) and mentoring from author JJ Bola, whose 2017 novel No Place To Call Home is published by Skyhorse Publishing in North America, as well as by Crystal Mahey-Morgan’s Own It in the United Kingdom.
Bolla’s new book, Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined, is at Pluto Press, an examination of the performative nature of many masculinities and issues around “toxic masculinity” in many cultures.
Maria Cardona
The intent of the new program for authors is to have it serve, in particular, writers 18 and older, and unagented, unpublished, and under-represented.
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