The 2022 edition of the Madrid-based Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction offers a long-form manuscript consultation and more

Deadline for Submissions: April 1

In opening the 2022 Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction, the Madrid-based organizers of the program tell Publishing Perspectives that they have a newly arranged partnership with the United Kingdom’s Literary Consultancy. What’s interesting about that is that the consultancy link will offer the 2022 winner of the competition a long-form manuscript assessment—for a winner in short-form writings—and “editorial consultancy service” as part of the prize package.

The real draw here is the annual 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.

Read more here: Publishing Perspectives