2019 ANA LITERARY PRIZES: CALL FOR
ENTRIES
INTRODUCTION
The Association of Nigerian Authors
[ANA] hereby announces a range of prizes for its 2019 literary competitions.
The prizes are:
1. ANA Prize for Poetry (published
& unpublished works) – N 100,000
2. ANA Prize for Prose Fiction
(published & unpublished works) – N 100,000
3. ANA Prize for Drama (published
& unpublished works) – N 100,000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-Publishedworks) – N200, 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 2018 and 2019.
REQUIREMENTS
1. An entry fee of N3, 000 (per
entry) is required for all the prizes .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 518, 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 2018
and 2019.
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.
4. Five hard copies as loose sheets
or as a bound monograph are to be submitted to ANA, plus a soft copy sent by
email to foninyang@yahoo.com and anaexco2015@gmail.com
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.
DEADLINE
Deadline for the receipt of ALL entries
is Friday,
May 31st , 2019(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 38th International Annual Convention of the Association of
Nigerian Authors in October, 2019.
Ofonime Inyang,
PhD
General Secretary
