Alternarratives was a £15,000 prize for writers to explore innovation in short-form storytelling.
Nesta and its Arts & Culture Finance team (now part of Figurative) were looking to unearth the future of cutting-edge short-form storytelling. In its pilot year, the Alternarratives prize encouraged storytellers to imagine how short-form fiction could be told in new ways to help re-engage young people at secondary school, aged 11-16, with the act of reading for pleasure. The project started in October 2019 and ended in September 2020.
Find out more on Nesta’s website.
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