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UPDATE (07-02-14): The deadline has been extended to July 15, 2014.
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Established in Thailand by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration and the Organizing Committee of the SEA Write Award, in collaboration with the SEA Write Network and the Mahidol University Faculty of Liberal Arts, the ASEAN Young Writers Award is an annual literary prize given to promising young writers in Southeast Asia.
Alternating between fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, this year's competition focuses on short stories.
The prize is open to writers aged 15 to 24, who are nationals of the ASEAN member countries (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam).
