The Provincial Council of Cáceres announces the 2027 Short Novel Prize with 9,000 euros

The Provincial Council of Cáceres has approved the rules for the 52nd edition of the 2027 Cáceres Short Novel Prize, featuring a single and indivisible prize of 9,000 euros, with a deadline for submitting originals until 11:59 PM on January 29, 2027. The call for entries is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Cáceres number 0218, dated November 13, 2026, via a resolution signed by the first Vice President of Territory, Equality, and Culture, María Esther Gutiérrez Morán, dated November 11, 2026.

A resolution with advance processing

The agreement, contained in the announcement with official reference BOP-2026-5328 (pp. 25466 to 25470), approves in its first point the regulatory bases of the call and, in the second, the expenditure of 9,000.00 euros, which will be financed through the budgetary application 05.3340.48701 (Competitions and Prizes) of the Council’s budget for the 2027 fiscal year. As this is an advance processing, the call is subject to the existence of adequate and sufficient credit at the time the award resolution is issued.

The file is supported by Law 38/2003, of November 17, General Law on Subsidies, the General Subsidy Ordinance of the Council, and other applicable regulations, with the declared objective of promoting literary creation in the Spanish language. The announcement bears the signature of the corporation’s secretary, José Álvaro Casas Avilés.

Extract in the National Subsidies Database

In parallel, the gazette publishes the extract of the call (BOP-2026-5331, pp. 25485 to 25487), with the identifier BDNS 941761, which refers to the full text deposited in the National Subsidies Database. The admission period begins the day after the publication of the extract in the BOP and closes on January 29, 2027, Cáceres-Spain time; no work will be admitted outside of this period.

Work requirements and electronic submission

The rules establish the conditions for participation:

• Any adult author of any nationality who has not previously won this competition may apply.
• Works must be submitted in Spanish under a visible pseudonym, without reference to the real identity.
• Only one work per author is permitted, which must be original and unpublished, not published or awarded on any platform, including digital ones.
• Length of 100 to 130 pages, 1.5 line spacing, Arial 12 font, A4 format, and submitted in PDF.
• Submission exclusively electronically via https://certamenes.dip-caceres.es, selecting the competition call.
• The generated receipt is encrypted with a password and kept until the verdict, at which point the jury decrypts it to learn the identity of the winner.

The prize includes the publication of the winning work: the author grants exclusive first edition rights to the Provincial Council, which will publish the book within one year of the verdict and may translate and disseminate it without financial compensation. The rules also incorporate a specific clause on the use of artificial intelligence and plagiarism, which empowers the institution to request documentation proving authorship and to automatically disqualify works that violate this prohibition, with the possible annulment of the prize if plagiarism is revealed after the verdict.

Jury, verdict, and publicity

The jury will be appointed by the Provincial Council and will be composed of people of recognized prestige, with a secretary without voice or vote appointed from among the corporation’s civil service staff. Its verdict is final and will take place before the end of the first half of 2027; the prize may be declared void. The award is granted by the First Vice-Presidency of the corporation upon the jury’s proposal, via a resolution that will be published in the BOP. Participants may not contact the institution during the process, except to communicate the withdrawal of a work or for technical incidents, which will be handled at soporte@dip-caceres.es.

The call for entries comes at a time when the provincial institution maintains its commitment to promoting literary creation in Spanish, with a contest already consolidated in its fifty-second edition and an endowment that places it among the reference prizes for authors in the provincial area. Interested writers have slightly more than two and a half months from the publication to finalize their originals and formalize their registration.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Cáceres, no. 0218, of November 13, 2026, Section I - Local Administration, pp. 25466-25470 and 25485-25487 (official reference: BOP-2026-5328 and BOP-2026-5331).