Submissions have been opened for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize (EBFP) 2024, with a grand prize of S$25,000 awaiting the winner, and S$5,000 each for three finalists.

Submissions should be original, unpublished works of fiction or new translations of non-English works, be at least 40,000 words long and in English. The closing date is August 1, 2024.

The prize has been given out since 2015, with past winners including Yeoh Jo-Ann for Impractical Uses of Cake, Joshua Kam’s How The Man in Green Saved Pahang, and Possibly The World, and Karina Robles Bahrin’s The Accidental Malay. Vrushali Junnarkar won the prize last year for The Campbell Gardens Ladies’ Swimming Class.

The judging panel includes Kenny Chan, former Kinokuniya senior director, Cheong Yip Seng, former editor-in-chief of The Straits Times, Anitha Pillai of the National Institute of Education, Gwen Robinson of the Nikkei Asian Review and Epigram’s own Edmund Wee.

See Epigram’s rules and regulations page for more information and to download the submission form.

Separately, if you’d like to become a reader for the Fiction Prize, you can sign up here. Readers will be asked to read and evaluate a minimum of four manuscripts from August to October 2024, with a 40% discount on titles published by Epigram Books upon completion. Registration to become a reader closes on July 26, 2024.