Junkets
Publisher is a small independent South African publisher founded in 2005 by
Robin Malan. In 2009, it was the winner of the Arts & Culture Trust
Excellence Award for Literature. It specialises in publishing The Playscript
Series, new Southern African plays; as well as The Collected Series,
anthologies of new Southern African plays.
Junkets has
announced a new project: African
Folktales Onstage! plays for pre-teens compiled by Fatima Dike, André
Lemmer, Robin Malan and Omphile Molusi
Junkets
Publisher is looking for short stage adaptations of African folktales to
include in a collection of plays for the upper Grades of the primary school and
the lower Grades of the high school, especially for performance or for
rehearsed class presentation.
Submissions
as a Word Doc, not as a pdf by email to info.junkets@iafrica.com should follow the following
guidelines:
Use only
Times New Roman 12pt. Do not use underlining or lines anywhere in the document.
All African folktales derive from the general consciousness of the people, so
all will be an ‘adaptation’ of a sort. Submitting your play will be an
undertaking that this is your own work. If, however, you are adapting a
specific prose re-telling, you must acknowledge this, giving the author’s name,
the title of the book in which the original appears, stating compiler,
publisher and date.
Your
play should be for performance by or to youngsters at the top end of the
primary school or the bottom end of the high school. Most experts are agreed
that very young children should not be performing written texts in public.
In your
retelling, go for the authentic, the robust, the vigorous. Studiously avoid the
“cutesy”.
Your
play should be a minimum of 1,500 words and a maximum of 5,500 words, counted
from the title to ‘The End’, including everything. Nothing shorter or longer
will be considered. State the number of words below your play.
The
author must be a member of a SADC country or a person living or working in
Southern Africa. There is no age restriction. It does not matter whether or not
you have had plays published or performed before.
You may
submit one play or two plays or three plays, but not more.
Only
emailed PC-generated submissions are acceptable; no hard-copy submissions. If
you do not have access to a PC and email, you will need to get your work
scanned, formatted and emailed by a PostNet or copy shop. We need to be able to
communicate with you by email.
Submissions
need to reach Junkets at info.junkets@iafrica.com by January 31, 2014. No late
submissions will be considered. Publication will be in early-December, 2014.
Only writers whose work is accepted for publication will be contacted.
“If you
have not heard from us by July 2014, you can assume that your submission did
not make it through the selection process; and please accept our thanks for
submitting your work. No correspondence can be entered into concerning entries
not selected,” says Robin Malan. “This is not a competition; there are no
prizes, there is no money involved at this stage. Junkets is usually a
not-for-profit operation, so no fee is offered. Instead, contributors will
receive a gratis copy of the book. In the unlikely event of there being a
profit after all expenses and bookshop discounts are factored in, contributors
will be paid a small royalty pro rata. Authors retain the copyright of their
individual plays.”
As the
selection will be made anonymously, your name (and postal address) should
appear only on the title-page; nowhere else.
For
further enquiries contact Robin Malan at email info.junkets@iafrica.com or on 076 169 2789. For layout
guidance, visit www.junkets.co.za
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