KADOKAWA Entertainment Next Award
カドカワエンタテインメント ネクストしょう
Open call new writer literary prize sponsored by Kadokawa Shoten (held twice in total)
- Established
- 2002
- Organizer
- Kadokawa Shoten
- Category
- General Fiction and Popular Fiction
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Newcomer
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Status
- Ended
Description
Established for writers with passion and fresh sensibility to create new entertainment works unbound by established genres, it ended with the announcement of the second round. Winning works were published by Kadokawa Shoten in B6 variant parallel-bound format.
Prize
- Main Prize
- Publication of winning work as B6 variant parallel-bound book
Selection
Selection Process
| Stage | Judges | Pass Rate | Announcement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sending comment sheets to all submitted works (initially) | Editorial department | 100% | — |
| Announcement of works with overall ratings A to C (from midway) | Editorial department | Unknown | Announced within 5 months of arrival at editorial department on Next Award website and in 'Yasei Jidai' magazine |
Criteria
- Excluding non-fiction, papers, poetry, picture books
- Entertainment novels unbound by established genres
- Passion and fresh sensibility
Related Awards
- Yasei Jidai Youth Literature Grand Prize
- Yasei Jidai Frontier Literature Prize
- Mephisto Prize
- KAPPA-ONE Dragon Gate
Official Resources
https://www.kadokawa.co.jp/contest/next/index.htmlPast Winners
ハワイッサー is a fictional work by 水野スミレ. As the award-recognized work, it builds its appeal around the images and human movement suggested by the title, giving even a compact form a sense of layered time.
The title ハワイッサー conveys the atmosphere and tension at the center of the work.
アフリカン・ゲーム・カートリッジズ by Makoto Fukami is known as a カドカワエンタテインメントNext賞 winning work, shaping its subject through relationships, memory, and the atmosphere of its time.
アフリカン・ゲーム・カートリッジズ is an award-recognized work by Makoto Fukami.
ラヴ☆アタック! by Ryo Kawakami is known as a カドカワエンタテインメントNext賞 winning work, shaping its subject through relationships, memory, and the atmosphere of its time.
ラヴ☆アタック! is an award-recognized work by Ryo Kawakami.
リベンジ・ゲーム by Ai Tanigawa is known as a カドカワエンタテインメントNext賞 winning work, shaping its subject through relationships, memory, and the atmosphere of its time.
リベンジ・ゲーム is an award-recognized work by Ai Tanigawa.