RFI – AUF Prize for Young Writing 2025: (Deadline 30 June, 2025)

Applications are open for the RFI – AUF Prize for Young Writing 2025. Organized by the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), Radio France Internationale (RFI) and Short Édition, the RFI-AUF Prize for Young Writings aims to encourage writing and reading in French. For its 7th edition, the jury of this literary competition will be chaired by the multi-award-winning Franco-British author and director, Alexis Michalik.

To participate in this edition, the fiction story must be a maximum of 8,000 characters (including spaces) and must begin with: “I can’t tell where I come from. I have forgotten everything”, an incipit taken from Alexis Michalik’s play, Passport, published by Albin Michel.

Prizes

Two prizes will be awarded:

• The public prize, an endowment worth €250.
  • It will be awarded to the story that has received the most votes from Internet users among a selection of the best works.
• The jury prize, one or more training courses offered by IFIC with a total value of €2,000.
  • It will crown the work elected by a jury of professionals with a particular attachment to the Francophonie.

Eligibility

• Open to French-speaking people from all over the world aged 18 to 29.
• They must be enrolled in one of the AUF’s member institutions or at the École de Management de la Francophonie (ESFAM).

Application

Do you like to write? It’s time to get started. Take your best pen and send your short story before Monday, June 30, 2025, midnight (Paris time, France).

For more information, visit RFI – AUF Prize for Young Writing.

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