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Submissions Form: Gratiaen Trust Writing Workshop. Deadline 5pm (sri lanka time) 28 February 2018

Posted on 15/01/2018

By Commonwealth Foundation

First Name*
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(must be 18 years or older)
Any special requirements you would have:
Genre of submission:*
Type of submission: (memoir, biography, article etc.)
A writing sample of up to 2500 words:*
Accepted file types: doc, docx, pdf, Max. file size: 128 MB.

This may be an extract from a longer work or a complete short story. If it is an excerpt please include (within the word count) a short paragraph that situates the extract in the context of the whole work.
Up to 500 words about yourself and your writing:*
Accepted file types: doc, docx, pdf, Max. file size: 128 MB.

Tell us what experiences of living and working you bring to your writing and more about the sort of writing you do or would like to do. We are much more interested in those things than lists of awards or accolades.
Up to 200 words describing what you would most hope to find at the workshop in terms of support for your writing:*
Accepted file types: doc, docx, pdf, Max. file size: 128 MB.

If we can provide what you are looking for we will!

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