Deadline: Could 10, 2025 | Prize: ₦100,000
The Idumaese Alao Basis (IAF) invitations entries for the 2025 Idumaese Alao Prize for Literature, a poetry award established in reminiscence of Idumaese Alao to have fun daring, artistic voices and honor excellence in literary craft.
This 12 months’s prize shall be judged by Osieka Osinimu Alao and Saddiq Dzukogi, two acclaimed Nigerian poets and students.
Awards for the Idumaese Alao Prize for Literature.
- Winner: ₦100,000
- Runner-up: ₦50,000
- Publication in a print and digital anthology curated by the Basis
2025 Theme
“The Starting and Finish of Humanity”
Writers are inspired to discover this theme by way of experimental, ingenious, and deeply private interpretations.
Eligibility Necessities for the Idumaese Alao Prize for Literature
- Open to Nigerian poets aged 18 and above, residing wherever on the earth
- Submissions have to be unpublished and not into account elsewhere
Submission Tips
- One poem solely, most of 40 traces
- Format: .doc file, Occasions New Roman 12 pt, 1.5 line spacing
- Don’t embrace your identify or figuring out information within the doc
- E-mail entry to: idumaesealaofoundation@omniinkus.com
- Topic line: 2025 IDUMAESE ALAO PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
- Embrace a cowl letter within the e-mail physique with:
Vital Dates
- Deadline: Could 10, 2025
- Outcomes: To be introduced by the Basis after judging is full
Word
- Plagiarism and AI-generated submissions shall be disqualified
- Submission grants the Basis first publication rights of their forthcoming anthology
- The choice of the judging panel is remaining
Meet the Judges
Osieka Osinimu Alao is a Nigerian author and scholar whose poetry seems in The Offing, ANMLY, The Shore, and extra. He holds an MA in Artistic Writing from Anglia Ruskin College.
Saddiq Dzukogi is an award-winning poet and professor at Mississippi State College. His guide Your Crib, My Qibla has earned a number of honors together with the Derek Walcott Prize and Julie Suk Award.
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