Kyoto Kita Short Story Award
きょうときたたんぺんぶんがくしょう
A public literary award soliciting short fiction set in Kita Ward, Kyoto City
- Established
- 2022
- Organizer
- Kita Ward Office, Kyoto City
- Category
- General Fiction and Popular Fiction
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Open
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Application Deadline
- around October
- Announcement Period
- around February
- Status
- Active
Description
As part of the charm dissemination project established by Kyoto City's Kita Ward in 2022, soliciting short stories set in temples and shrines such as Kamo Wakeikazuchi Shrine and Ryoan-ji Temple, historical buildings, and unique local features. Award-winning works will be published as a short story collection. Planned to commemorate the release of the 2nd volume of the paperback "Kyoto Funaokayama Astrology" set in Mount Funaoka.
Prize
- Main Prize
- Award-winning works will be published as a short story collection
- Grand Prize
- Excellence Award
- Funaokayama Category Award
Related Awards
- Japanese literary awards
Official Resources
https://www.city.kyoto.lg.jp/kita/page/0000306999.htmlPast Winners
A Kyoto Kita Short Story Award piece about a sister and her brother, who uses a wheelchair, as they rediscover family time through photography.
Taking photographs becomes a way to see the city and themselves anew.
A top-prize Kyoto Kita Short Story Award work that follows the meaning of home where memory and the present overlap in northern Kyoto.
Home emerges in the space between the past and the present.
A Kyoto Kita Short Story Award finalist piece in which an onmyoji hunts down a guardian dog that has slipped out of the gate at Kamigamo Shrine.
When the guardian dog escapes, the story crosses into the boundaries of the old capital.
An award-winning Kyoto Kita short story in which Moeka, unable to connect with her grandfather who weaves Nishijin textiles, slowly reaches him through weaving.
She closes the distance to her grandfather little by little through weaving.
A work confirmed as an honorable-mention winner of the Kyoto Kita Short Story Award, but no standalone book publication could be found.
The award is confirmed, but a book edition is not.
A nominee for the Kyoto Kita Short Story Award about reading aloud at Funaokayama. No standalone book edition could be found.
Helping choose picture books for a reading session at Funaokayama.