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to $1,000 for a poetry collection(Published and unpublished) that evokes or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 31st
May,2019.
Wole Adedoyin
PRO South
