Yu Literary Award

ゆうぶんがくしょう

Open call newcomer literary award for kaidan literature sponsored by KADOKAWA Corporation, Kadokawa Shoten.

KaidanOpen callNewcomer literary award

Established: 2006
Organizer: KADOKAWA Corporation, Kadokawa Shoten
Category: Genre Fiction
Selection Method: Open call
Target: Newcomer
Frequency: 1 per year
Application Deadline: around August–September
Announcement Period: around January–February
Status: Ended

Description

Established in 2006 as the literary specialist newcomer award for the kaidan specialist magazine ''Yu''. Solicits long-form and short-form works in the kaidan genre. Grand prize winners receive an original blue andon lantern as the principal prize, with sub-prizes of 300,000 yen for the long-form category and 200,000 yen for the short-form category. Long-form grand prize works are published as single volumes by ''Yu Books'', and short-form grand prize works are published in the ''Yu'' magazine. Ended after the 10th edition (2015).

Prize

Main Prize: Original blue andon lantern (principal prize)
Cash Prize: 300,000 JPY

Sub-prize: Long-form category 300000 yen
Sub-prize: Short-form category 200000 yen
Long-form grand prize work published by ''Yu Books''
Short-form grand prize work published in ''Yu'' magazine

Selection

Selection Process

Stage	Judges	Pass Rate	Announcement
First selection	Editorial department	—	—
Final selection	Selection committee (Shimako Iwai, Natsuhiko Kyōgoku, Yōsuke Takahashi, Takeji Nanjō, Masao Higashi, Kōkatsu Kihara)	—	Winning works are announced in the ''Yu'' magazine