Deadline: Might 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 rejoice daring, inventive voices and honor excellence in literary craft.
This 12 months’s prize might 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, creative, and deeply private interpretations.
Eligibility Necessities for the Idumaese Alao Prize for Literature
- Open to Nigerian poets aged 18 and above, residing anyplace on this planet
- Submissions should be unpublished and not into consideration elsewhere
Submission Tips
- One poem solely, most of 40 strains
- Format: .doc file, Occasions New Roman 12 pt, 1.5 line spacing
- Don’t embody your identify or figuring out data within the doc
- Electronic mail entry to: idumaesealaofoundation@omniinkus.com
- Topic line: 2025 IDUMAESE ALAO PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
- Embody a cowl letter within the e mail physique with:
Essential Dates
- Deadline: Might 10, 2025
- Outcomes: To be introduced by the Basis after judging is full
Notice
- Plagiarism and AI-generated submissions might 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 e book Your Crib, My Qibla has earned a number of honors together with the Derek Walcott Prize and Julie Suk Award.
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