Junkets Publisher The Collected Series

email info.junkets@iafrica.com website www.junkets.co.za

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. We announce a new project: African Folktales Onstage! plays for pre-teens
compiled by Fatima Dike, Andr Lemmer, Robin Malan & 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. Guidelines for Contributors 1 2 3 4 Submit by email to info.junkets@iafrica.com as a Word Doc, not as a pdf. Use only Times New Roman 12pt. Do not use underlining or lines anywhere in the document. A sample half-page of the required format is given at the end of this call. 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 authors 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. (Click on Tools, then Word Count.) 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.

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10 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. 11 Submissions need to reach us at info.junkets@iafrica.com by 31 January 2014. No late submissions will be considered. Publication will be in earlyDecember 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. 12 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. 13 As the selection will be made anonymously, your name (and postal address) should appear only on the title-page; nowhere else. 14 For further enquiries, contact Robin Malan at email info.junkets@iafrica.com or on cell number 076 169 2789. Sample of format in which play is to be typed The setting of the play is a wide, open stretch of veld. Whistling is heard offstage. HYENA enters. Hyena (Sees audience, addresses them.) Hello, people. That was me whistling back there. Im full of beans today. (Burps. Smiles.) Well, not literally. Now, down to business. I have a little plan There is a loud crash-bang offstage, and AMEHLO THE OWL enters, carrying a bucket, a mop, and a step-ladder. Amehlo Oh, eish, eina! I keep not seeing where Im going. (Drops everything.) I just cant do this on my own. (Sits down on the upturned bucket, dejected. Mops his brow.) Hyena Morning, Amehlo the Owl! I wonder, (With a sinister laugh.) if I can perhaps help you Amehlo Would you? Thats kind. I have to clean the sky so that the sun can paint a rainbow on it, but I seem to have mislaid my spectacles. HYENA climbs the ladder and plucks the spectacles off a branch of a tree. He hands them to AMEHLO. Hyena (Speaking very carefully.) Are these they?

These are the details of the above format: Everything flush-left; no indenting of speeches or stage directions Character-name in Bold uc&lc (e.g. Hyena), no colon, 1 character-space, then speech, running on, no indenting Single spacing within a speech 1 line-space between speeches and before & after external stage directions external stage directions in italics, no brackets before or after. e.g. [flush left]: HYENA climbs the ladder and plucks the spectacles off a branch of a tree. internal stage directions (within speeches) inside regular round brackets, text in italics, start with u.c. letter, end with full stop, e.g. (With a sinister laugh.) This is how we want you to present the play to us. Our typesetter will adjust this format for the final published text.
email info.junkets@iafrica.com website www.junkets.co.za

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