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In 2020, the Shevchenko Foundation also launched a Can$ 1,500 Emerging Writers Short Prose Competition, setting the groundwork for new writers to explore the short prose form with unpublished entries, and to one day aspire to submit an entry to the main KOBZAR Book Award. [2]
KOBZAR Book Award
Shevchenko Foundation Emerging Writers Short Prose Competition
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