The Anna Lindh Foundation and the European Institute of the Mediterranean have launched the sixth edition of the international competition of short stories and tales “A Sea of Words”, aimed at young people from the 43 countries of the Euro-Mediterranean area.
This year, in the framework of the European Year of Citizens, the competition is aimed at producing stories or short stories focusing on solidarity and citizenship issues with the purpose of showing different sensibilities and realities lived at the Euro-Mediterranian region from the citizens’ point of view.
Participants should be young people between 18 and 30 years old, who are citizens of one of the 43 countries of the Euro-Mediterranean space.
The short stories must be original and unpublished works, of maximum 2,500 words and can be written in any of the official languages of the participant countries.
They must address issues related to intercultural dialogue, mainly of a political, socio-cultural, economic and environmental nature.
The authors of the 15 best short stories will be awarded with the publication of their short stories and will also be invited to the awards’ presentation ceremony in Barcelona, Spain on 16th September 2013.
During the days following the awards’ presentation, the winners of the contest will be invited to participate in a programme of cultural visits and activities in the cities of Barcelona and in another Spanish city.
Short stories should be sent to concurso@iemed.org by 25 May 2013, midnight.
All details are available [ ]here
