In exactly 12 weeks The Asian Writer turns three and to celebrate we’ve got an exciting project up our sleeves.
We’re taking the best content and turning it into a collection – that any book lover will treasure. We want you to choose your best bits and pieces, quotes and favourite  books to go in the collection.
That’s not all.
The Asian Writer is inviting writers to contribute new writing on the theme ‘Celebration’ for a collection.
We’re happy for you to flaunt your talent and send us your poems, haikus, …

The world’s largest literary award for young writers, Dylan Thomas Prize has teamed up with Sony UK to offer a new award in this year’s competition.
The Sony Reader Award will be awarded to a British novel writer under the age of 30. The process of submission, judging to publishing will be undertaken electronically and the winning entry will be made available as an e-book.
Closing date: 31st August 2010
Visit http://www.thedylanthomasprize.com/

Unpublished women writers are being invited to submit their short stories to the biennial prize, The Asham Award.
For the first time, the award has a set theme: Ghost or Gothic? and twelve winning entries will be published by Virago, alongside new writing by some of the UK’s best known women writers.
The award is open to women who have not previously published a novel or collection of short stories. Entries must not exceed 4000 words.
Closing date: 30 September, 2010
Visit http://www.ashamaward.com/

Rana Dasgupta becomes Best Book Winner of The Commonwealth Writers Prize (April 12, 2010)
The judges chose Solo for its innovation, ambition, courage and effortlessly elegant prose. A remarkable novel of two halves, this is a book that takes risks and examines the places where grim reality and fantastical daydreams merge, diverge, and feed off each other. Solo, the judges concluded, is a tour de force, breathtaking in its boldness and narrative panache. The Best Book Winner takes home a £10,000 prize. Glenda Guest, …

The Asia House Festival of Asian Literature returns to London from 5th – 27th May 2010. Now in its 4th year, the Festival will host 20 talks and events by 40 acclaimed writers working in and writing on the region.
The line up of speakers includes established and emerging talents: Author of Songs of Blood and Sword, Fatima Bhutto; writer and historian William Dalrymple; author of A Life Apart, Neel Mukherjee; biographer Hilary Spurling; author and commentator Yasmin Alibhai-Brown; poet Daljit Nagra; writer Victoria Schofield and author and broadcaster John …

The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature to celebrate the rich and varied literature connected to the subcontinent has been announced. The prize will award US$50,000 to the winner starting from 2011. The award will recognize writers of any ethnicity writing about South Asia and its Diasporas. The books competing for the prize must be an original work of fiction published during 1st April 2009 and 31st March 2010, written in English or translated into English.
The judging panel for the DSC prize will comprise persons of eminence in literature, arts …