The Commonwealth Foundation has made the call for entries for the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize and Commonwealth Short Story Prize.  Part of Commonwealth Writers, the prizes unearth, develop and promote the best new writing from across the Commonwealth. Expanding the breadth of the Prizes to translated and self-published books opens up more opportunities for people in countries with little or no publishing infrastructure and to those who are writing in a language other than English.

Awarded for best first book, the Commonwealth Book Prizeis open to writers who have had their first novel (full length work of fiction) published between 1 January and 31 December 2012. Regional winners receive £2,500 and the overall winner receives £10,000. More.

See: Common Wealth Writers