The fifth iteration of the Madrid-based Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction sends its winner to an Umbrian retreat.
As you’ll remember, when the Madrid-based organizers of the Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction opened the program for submissions in April, they announced a newly arranged partnership with the United Kingdom’s Literary Consultancy.
The real draw here, however, is annually the offer of a week’s residency at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation’s 15th-century castle in Umbria for the winner and the chance for a shortlisted writer to have a residency at Tbilisi’s Writers’ House of Georgia as well as access to the Tbilisi International Literature Festival, known well to our readers for its leadership from Gvantsa Jobava.
A familiar name, Anton Hur, the literary translator, is among the jury members this year, along with Joanna Walsh, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Natasha Brown.
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