2018 ANA LITERARY PRIZES: CALL FOR
ENTRIES
INTRODUCTION
The Association of Nigerian Authors
[ANA] hereby announces a range of prizes for its 2018 literary competitions.
The prizes are:
1. ANA Prize for Poetry (published
& unpublished) – N 100,000
2. ANA Prize for Prose Fiction
(published & unpublished) – N 100,000
3. ANA Prize for Drama (published
& unpublished) – N 100,000
4. ANA Prize for Children's
Literature- 7-13 years age range (Published works only and open to all
categories of authors) - N100, 0000
5. ANA/ Abubakar Gimba Prize
for Fiction (Short Stories Collection-Published) – N200, 000.
6. ANA/NECO Teen Authors Prize for
Prose (Published & Unpublished)- N100,000
6. ANA/Maria Ajima Prize for Literary
Criticism (Focus on criticism of emergent Nigerian Literature) – N100, 000
Nigerian writers, at home and
abroad, desirous of entering their works for the Annual Literary Prizes, may
now do so. Works entered should have been published between 2017 and
2018.
REQUIREMENTS
1. An entry fee of N3, 000 (per
entry) is required for all the prizes except the Teen Authors Prize. The fee is
to be paid by the author or the publisher in favour of the:
ACCOUNT NAME: Association of
Nigerian Authors(ANA)
BANK: Zenith Bank of Nigeria
Plc
ACCOUNT NO: 1014606745
Please, note:
[a] The entry fee is for the purpose
of prize administration only.
[b] A photocopy of the appropriate
Deposit Slip[s] MUST accompany Requirement #2 below.
2. Six copies (6) of the book
or manuscript to be entered, specifying the Prize being entered for, alongside
a covering letter and the photocopy of the Deposit Slip used in Requirement 1
above, should be sent by post to:
The General Secretary,
Association of Nigerian Authors
(ANA),
KM 2, Mamman Vatsa Writers’
Village, Mpape, Abuja
Or PMB 18485,Area 10 Garki, Abuja
The covering letter should contain
accurate contact details of the writer or/and publisher of the work, including
email and surface mail addresses and telephone numbers.
Please, note also that:
[a] The Association will NOT take
responsibility for the delay in the postal service nor claim registered parcels
in cases where it has to pay for such entries or parcels.
[b] Multiple entries, where
applicable, are allowed but a work must not have been entered for the same
prize prior to the present entry and it must have been published between 2017
and 2018.
GENERAL INSTRUCTION
The works that are to be
submitted in all categories should be original and not recast(s) of already
existing works. All submissions are subjected to copyright laws of Nigeria as
authors should note that they retain full responsibility for any sort of
infringement. Works entered into for ANA prizes are expected to be of the
highest language and literary quality.
(a)ANA/ Maria Ajima Prize for
Literary Criticism (published works only)
Length: Not more than 15 pages of A4
paper size following format of academic essays.
1. Type double spaced using MS
Word. Use Times New Roman Type face 12 point font size.
2. The essay, if published in a journal,
newspaper, books or as electronic text on-line, must be within the valid dates
indicated on this call for submissions.
3. Referencing style is either the
latest MLA or APA style.
6. The essay should not be a
generalized survey but should rather be focused on specific texts (in any of
the genres) of selected authors at a time.
7. The essay should state where the
texts or performance analysed can be accessed or located and where it (essay)
has been published.
8. All entries in this category
should be accompanied by a letter affirming the originality of the essay and
authorial authenticity.
9. In addition, all other rules
covering ANA competitions are applicable.
Copyright: The copyright to every
winning entry is to be held by the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Maria
Ajima Trust, and the author of the work. The winning entry will be published in
subsequent ANA Reviews.
(b) ANA.NECO Teen Authors Prize
for Prose(Published & Unpublished)
Entries must be accompanied by photocopies
of Birth Certificate/Declaration of Age and any other evidence of the entrant
as a school-going person.
DEADLINE
Deadline for the receipt of ALL
entries is Friday, May 25th, 2018(there will be no extension of
this deadline). A shortlist will be announced in September, 2018. Winners
of the prizes will be announced by the judges at the Awards Dinner during the
37th International Annual Convention of the Association of Nigerian Authors in
October, 2018.
Ofonime
Inyang, PhD
General Secretary
