The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) hereby announces the following prizes for its 2025 literary competitions:

ANA/KMVL Prize for Poetry - 200,000

ANA/King Dakolo Prize for Fiction – N 100,000 

ANA Prize for Drama – N 100,000

ANA/Amina Talaku Zakama Prize for Literary Criticism - N100,000

ANA/Sir Chukwuemeka Sam Nwelue Prize for Non-Fiction – N100, 000

ANA/Ngozi Chuma-Udeh Prize for Children’s Fiction – N100, 000 

Nigerian writers, at home and abroad, desirous of entering their works for the advertised annual literary prizes, may now do so. Works entered should have been published between 2024 and 2025. Prizes are for published works/books only. 

REQUIREMENTS AND GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

An entry fee of N10,000 (per entry) is required for each entry. Please, note that the entry fee is for the purpose of prize administration only. The fee is to be paid by the author (or the publisher on behalf of the author) in favour of:

            ACCOUNT NAME: Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) 

            BANK: First Bank of Nigeria Plc 

            ACCOUNT NO:  2020543538

2. An author is required to send six copies (6) of a given book, alongside a photocopy of a deposit slip showing payment of the required entry fee and a covering letter specifying the prize being entered. The covering letter should contain accurate contact details such as email address, surface mail address, and a telephone number. All materials are to be posted to: 

            The General Secretary, 

            Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), 

            KM 2, Mamman Vatsa Writers’ Village, Mpape, Abuja

3. An author should also attach photocopied proof of Nigerian citizenship.

4. The Association will NOT take responsibility for delays in postal service/parcel delivery nor claim registered parcels in cases where it is required to pay for such entries or parcels.

5. Multiple entries, where applicable, are allowed but a work must not have been entered for any of the Association’s prizes prior to the present entry and it must have been published between 2024 and 2025 to qualify.

6. The works that are to be submitted in all categories should be original and not recast(s) of already existing works. 

7. Unlike the other advertised prizes established for creative writing, the ANA/Amina Talaku Zakama Prize for Literary Criticism is for a book of academic research/critical writing (not less than 100 pages) on Nigerian literature.

8. The ANA/Sir Chukwuemeka Sam Nwelue Prize for Non-Fiction is for a book of creative non-fiction (autobiography, biography, memoir, travelogue, essays) not less than 100 pages.

9. All submissions are subject to copyright laws of Nigeria and authors will bear full responsibility for any sort of infringement. 

10. Works entered for ANA’s prizes are expected to be of the highest quality in language and literariness.

11. The Association will present a plaque/certificate and the appropriate prize-money to each winner.

12. The prizes are not open to the members of the National Executive Council (NEC) of ANA and their immediate family members. 

13. The Prizes are not open to the members of the jury and their immediate relatives/family members. 

14. Where a prize judge has written a supporting material (a blurb, a foreword, an introduction) for a submitted title, or has edited the work or served as its publisher, the judge concerned shall recuse himself/herself from taking decisions concerning that book and must communicate to ANA NEC to enable the Association to make an alternative arrangement. 

15. Where there is only one entry for any of the prizes, the prize administrator reserves the right to award the prize to that entry if it is a deserving book or defer the prize to another year. 

16. Where there is no entry for any of the prizes, the prize administrator reserves the right to award the prize to a deserving book, but such a winner will be entitled to only a certificate/plaque without the prize money. 

17. The Judges for this year are Prof. Musa Okpanachi, Prof. Oyeh Otu, Mr. Anote Ajeluorou, Mr. Aj. Dagga Tolar, and Mr. Nzube Nlebedim. The decision of the Judges is final.

DEADLINE

The deadline for the receipt of ALL entries is 30th June 2025. There will be no extension of this deadline, please. A short-list will be announced in August 2025. Winners of the prizes will be announced by the judges at the Awards Dinner during the International Annual Convention of the Association of Nigerian Authors slated for 30th October 2025 – 2nd November 2025.