ANA Poetry Prize receives Endowment of $1,000 from Senator Shehu Sani

ANA POETRY PRIZE RECEIVES ENDOWMENT OF $1,000 FROM SENATOR SHEHU SANI

The Association of Nigerian Authors(ANA)ANA Poetry Prize already advertised for this year 2019 cycle of ANA literary Prizes has received an endowment of $1,000 from Senator Shehu Sani, an author, playwright ,human right activist and politician who has been a long-standing benefactor of the Association . In a message relayed to the Association recently, Senator Shehu Sani expressed his desire to jerk up the prize money which was N100,000 to $1,000 for a poetry collection(Published and unpublished) that evokes or denotes peace, tolerance, social justice and egalitarianism. 

By this endowment, the winning work this year 2019 will be rewarded with the sum of $1,000. It should be recalled that the poetry prize has been one of the most rewarded monetarily of ANA prizes over the years when it was endowed by Cadbury for $1,000 and later $2,000 before it was rested in the late 2000s. By this endowment, the prize will now be known as ANA/Shehu Sani  Poetry Prize . 

The deadline for the submission for any of the ANA literary prizes as earlier advertised is 31^st May,2019.

 

Wole Adedoyin

PRO South