The Campus Writing Challenge, which is focused on discovering
students with
raw, bold and creative writing talents, is open to
students of tertiary institutions across Nigeria and is aimed at
providing them with the necessary exposure to hone their craft and
become master storytellers.
Judge, Chika Unigwe
During the entry period that spans from Monday, August 27th to Sunday, October 7th, 2018, students are invited to visit the website and submit short stories with a word count of between 3,000 and 5,000, to stand a chance of winning great prizes.
The
winning entry will receive a cash prize of N500,000 with the second and
third best entries winning N200,000 and N100,000 respectively. There
will also be a mini award category, including a N50,000 prize for the
best designed short story cover as well as an audience favourite award
and several other consolation prizes.
Best of all, the winning and
short-listed works will be forwarded to leading publishing houses in
Nigeria for a chance to get published, in a bid to help jumpstart the
writing careers of these students and possibly discover the next Chinua Achebe.
Judge 2, Abubakar Ibrahim-Adam
The panel of judges for the competition includes Chika Unigwe, author, facilitator of Awake Creative Trust and winner of the 2003 BBC Short Story Competition and Abubakar Ibrahim Adam, creative writer and winner of the 2016 Nigeria Prize for Literature award.
Remember,
participants must be undergraduates of any of the Nigerian tertiary
institutions as at the entry deadline to be eligible for the
competition.
So go ahead and submit that short story for a chance
to represent your school. Who wins the grand prize? Will it be
University of Ilorin or Imo State University or maybe University of
Maiduguri?
Don’t be left behind, click here to get started.
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