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The Golden Baobab Prize - Entries

The Golden Baobab Prize is “An African literary award established to inspire the creation of the best kinds of African stories that children and young adults all over the world will love.” They are currently inviting entries of unpublished short stories written [...]

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Third Round Stories - More Judges' comments

Still keeping within our dates, if a few days late (bear with our Jegas Judges), we now announce the top 10 stories for The Vote Chronicles contest. These submissions came tops according to a total of scores by our three judges. All scored at least [...]

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Results - African Writing Prize for Flash Fiction

The African Writing Prize for Flash Fiction has released results of the competition which we also announced here on Naija Stories. One of our members was shortlisted, and is happy to share his joy with us.

Jeff Unaegbu is an active member of Naija [...]

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2011 ANA LITERARY PRIZES

Nigerian writers, at home and abroad, who have and are willing to enter their new works for the Annual Literary Prizes of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) may now do so.

Interested creative writers should send six copies (6) of their entries, (specifying [...]

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IBADAN LITERATURE PRIZE

CALL FOR ENTRIES The Ibadan Literature Prize is the brainchild of EMGEE PUBLISHING LIMITED-and you can WIN US$4,000 in four categories of Nigerian literature.

Each category carries a prize of US$1,000. The categories where writers can enter for prizes are:

i. Short Story, ii. [...]

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Commonwealth Short Story Competition

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The Commonwealth Short Story Competition is an annual scheme to promote new creative writing for radio, funded and administered by the Commonwealth Foundation and the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association.

Established in 1996, the competition aims to increase understanding [...]

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