Shortlist of
2018 ANA Literary Prizes
1) ANA PROSE FICTION
PRIZE: The Beginning of Everything
Colourful- Onyeka Nwelue; Hang No Clothes
Here- Bolaji Olatunde; The Longest Trial- Uchenna Eze; Absolution-
Oreva Ode-Irri and The Return of Half-Something– Chukwudi Eze
2) ANA DRAMA PRIZE: Teeth set on Edge – Akin Bello; Mr. Brother –Achalugo
Ezekobe; Guerilla Post – Obari Gomba and Saint Ojedi –Amechi
Chiedu Obumse.
3) ANA POETRY PRIZE: The Poet of Dust – Umar Abubakar Sidi; The Lagos
Cuban Jazz Club – Onyeka Nwelue; Bomb blast or Breakfast – J. O. J.
Nwachukwu-Agbada and Blood Drops – Patrick Oguejiofor.
3) ANA/ ABUBAKAR GIMBA
PRIZE FOR SHORT STORIES: Justice
Club –SasiMietJajja; Things That
Start Small But Sweet –Bibi Ukonu and Vacancy for the Post of a Bride –
Emmanuel Asika
4) The ANA Prize
for Children’s Literature: Nwauwa:
the Girl with big Dreams- Paschal Okeke
& Vera O. Chuks-Iwuchukwu; Primrose and the Kidnappers –
JideOgunlana and Once Upon a Village– Su’eddie Vershima Agema
5) ANA/NECO TEEN AUTHOR
PROSE PRIZE: If You Looked Inside a Girl –
Chibundum Kosisochukwu Ndukwe and Tomorrow Brings Beautiful Things: Stories
-Ernest Ogunyemi
6) ANA/MARIA AJIMA
PRIZE FOR LITERARY CRITICISM: Nativisation
as Style and Identity Marker in Barclays Ayakoroma’s Dance on His Grave –Ebi
Yeibo
The ANA Literary Prizes panel of
judges include: Prof Nelson Fashina-University of Ibadan; Prof. Effiong Johnson
– University of Uyo; Ismaila Bala Garba- Bayero University, Kano; Dr.
Owojecho Omoha- University of Abuja and Prof. G.M.T. Emezue- Alex Ekwueme
Federal University, Ndufu-Alike Ikwo.
