Public vote

Voting opens on July 15 for those 12 texts that have been nominated for the people’s choice award.

The winner receives 200,000 Huf total prize and will have the chance to be on stage at the PesText Festival at the end of September. According to the original plans there would have been 11 texts in the competititon but the applications were so convincing that the pre-selection board decided to shortlist 12 stories. Members of the board were: Péter Borbáth writer, literary translator, guide, Bálint Urbán, literary scholar, translator, professor at the Portuguese Department of the University of ELTE, editor at the online journal Versum and Péter Górász literary scholar, librarian, board member at the Young Writers’ Association.

Details of the competition:

We are expecting Hungarian language texts of up to 6000 characters by contemporary Hungarian writers in the theme ‘reset’. The assessment is going to have two stages.

Following a thorough pre-selection process, the best 11 texts will be presented to the jury, consisting of respected professionals. One piece on the shortlist is going to win the jury’s award and one is going to receive the people’s choice award. Both pieces are going to be translated to English, Czech, Polish and Slovakian and will be published in the fanzine of the festival. The two writers will receive a 200,000 Huf gross prize each and will be invited to PesText Festival.

The international literary festival, PesText, is held for the second time in Budapest in the fall of 2020 by the Hungarian Literature Copyright Protection and Rights Management Association (MISZJE) and the Petőfi Literary Fund.

Scheduled dates of the festival: September 22 – September 26, 2020

Votes are welcome for the people’s choice award winner as of 15 July, 2020 until midnight 10 August, 2020 on the festival website.

We are receiving texts at [email protected] with the word RESET in the subject line.

Deadlines and prize pool

Closing date for submissions: 15 June, 2020

Eligibility: any author who writes in Hungarian (one author can only submit one piece). There are no restrictions on the genre of the texts.

First Prize: 200,000 HUF

People’s Choice Award: 200,000 HUF

Conditions:

ATTENTION!

We only accept applications with a code-word. The submitted document cannot contain the author’s name. Please indicate your code-word on top of the first page of your document and make sure it is visible. The code-word must be a minimum of 8 characters preferably including letters and numbers as well. We are expecting pieces that have not been published online or offline either, and are not being published during the time of the competition, nor are they expected to be published until the closing of the  competition.

For further information and update please follow the Facebook page of PesText Festival: https://www.facebook.com/pestext.festival/ Contact: Borbáth Péter ([email protected])

Applicants agree that the organizers of PesText International Festival can publish their pieces under the applicants’ names on the platforms of the festival.

Those applicants who do not consent to their work being used according to the conditions listed above are not going to be able to receive the First Prize or the People’s Choice Award either. Their prize is going to be taken by the runner-up. By submitting an application the applicant agrees that the organizers can later send them furher information via email about the Festival and related literary tenders, competitions and events.

In case you prefer not to receive such information please let us know in your application.

For a description of data protection principles of the Hungarian Literature Copyright Protection and Rights Management Association (MISZJE) please consult the link below.