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Call for Submissions ~ 2020 Aminiya-Trust Hausa Short Story Writing Competition

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OPEN ARTS in collaboration with GANDUN KALMOMI are announcing the 2020 AMINIYA-TRUST HAUSA SHORT STORY WRITING COMPETITION. THEME : The theme for this year, is CHALLENGES OF DEMOCRACY AND POLITICKING IN NIGERIA. WORD COUNT : All entries should be a piece of creative writing in Hausa that fall between the word count of 1000 – 1500 words and conform to Hausa traditions and cultural norms. SUBMISSION All entries should be sent to wasikunaminiya@dailytrust.com as a Microsoft Word attachment including full name, a short bio, home or office address and phone number. DEADLINE Submissions will be open from May 15 2020 and close at 11:59pm West African Time (WAT) on July 15 2020. Entries sent outside the submission window will not be accepted. PRIZES The top 3 Entries will be awarded prizes as follows: 1st Position: N250,000 2nd Position: N150,000 3rd Position: N100,000 Winners of the 2020 Aminiya-Trust Hausa Short Story Competition will be announ

Call for Entries: The Arojah Students' Playwriting Prize (TASPP)

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Are you a student of any of Nigeria’s tertiary institutions (Universities, Colleges of Educations and Polytechnics)? Are you a Nigerian student currently studying in other parts of the world? Do you have a previously unproduced/unpublished ONE-ACT play that addresses issues of corruption and its human costs, lack of accountability and good governance, or a call to action to engender change and ethical revolution? Arojah Royal Theatre and the International Centre for Creative and Performing Arts with the support of MacArthur Foundation and the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) is pleased to announce the maiden edition of The Arojah Students' Playwriting Prize (TASPP). Interested students are hereby invited to submit entries for a chance to win N100,000 plus an opportunity to be published in an anthology of new plays.  Please study the guidelines and agreement before submitting your play in the link below: https://forms.gle/DqxtAJVkp8j6

Call for Submissions: Maple Tree Literary Supplement Special issue on Harry Garuba.

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After the generation of Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe and John Bekeder emo-Clark, Harry Garuba, as a world-renowned scholar and poet based in Ibadan where he also led the Thursday group of poets, was at the bridgehead of a new wave of Nigerian Literary culture and scholarship since the 1980s till his passing in February 2020. For over 30 years, he sponsored, mentored, taught, supported and befriended that new generation of academics and writers. Always self-effacing, he never took or sought credit for his intellectual, financial and moral generosity, a palpable example of which was the 1987 poetry anthology, "Voices from the Fringe," which he organised and edited. This work is a formal introduction of the third generation of Nigerian writers to the literary world. In the area of scholarship Garuba’s quiet but powerful intelligence and erudite influence is widespread. His academic essays are landmarks of rigorous postcolonial enquiry within a global school culture. Garub

Call for Participation: Residency Programme for Artists and Curators from Berlin and Lagos

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The Goethe-Institut Nigeria, in cooperation with 16/16 residency in Lagos and the Berlin art institutions, ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics, SAVVY Contemporary and Galerie Wedding, is offering residencies for artists / curators from Lagos and Berlin. Goethe-Institut Nigeria in the context of its partnership with the Center for Art and Urbanistics (ZK/U) in Berlin, the cultural office of local government Berlin Mitte, SAVVY Contemporary Art Space Berlin and 16/16 Lagos, continues with a  residency programme for artists and curators  from Berlin and Lagos. Since its founding in 2015, the aim of »Artist’s and Curator’s Residency // Berlin-Lagos« has been initiated to strengthen the dialogue between Germany and Nigeria. It provides an individualized offer in order to get an insight into the art and culture scene of the respective city and the partner institutions. They will offer possibilities of exchange, mentoring, making contacts and the presentation of work results

Call for Entries: Nigerian Students Poetry Prize (NSPP) 2020

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Deadline: 31 st  March, 2020 INTRODUCTION Nigerian Students Poetry Prize (NSPP) is an initiative of Poets in Nigeria (PIN) aimed at stimulating literary creativity and encouraging critical thinking among Nigerian undergraduates. Since its inception in 2016 at the University of Ibadan, the prize has received about 2500 entries from students representing over 100 tertiary institutions (including universities, polytechnics, colleges of education, schools of nursing and seminary schools). Reputed as the foremost poetry prize for Nigerian students, the NSPP has awarded over a million Naira (1,000,000) to winning entrants and published 400 poems authored by selected student-poets in four anthologies:  The Sun Will Rise Again (2016), Mixed History (2017), Deep Dreams (2018) and Micah (2019). Notably, tertiary institutions such as University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu and Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Yenagoa hosted the NSPP Awards in

Call for Proposals: Performing and Visual Arts Projects ~ The African Culture Fund

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Application Guidelines: The African Culture Fund is a pan-African organization that aims to support professionalization of the cultural and creative sector of African countries through innovative artistic projects that it finances. TO BE ELIGIBLE: Be an African artist or cultural actor or from the African diaspora, an artistic or cultural organization or association established in Africa or cooperating on African projects with at least one African organization and having at least three years of experience; Have a structure or be a member of an artistic or cultural organization or association; Have a legal status (organizations); Present a structuring project in response to the call for projects. Lot 1 : Performing arts The projects involved in this call are activities and projects of creation, production and dissemination of works and capacity building in the field of the performing arts. The current call concerns the following performing arts: music, dance

Call for participation: China-Nigeria Friendship Photo Contest

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Deadline: September 20, 2019. The Chinese embassy in Nigeria in collaboration with the Abuja International Photo Festival invite entries from interested photographers for the maiden China-Nigeria Friendship in Pictures Photo Contest to mark People's Republic of China's 70th anniversary and 48th Anniversary of Bilateral relations with Nigeria.     The Photo Contest is open to all Nigerian citizens, other nationals and Chinese citizens in Nigeria. HOW TO PARTICIPATE: 1. Enter single image or set of images (not more than 5). 2. Images on Landscape/Humanities/ Chinese presence in Nigeria. 3. Images from DSLR or Mobile Phones are accepted. 4. Image can be Coloured or Black and White. Send entries to: nigeriaandchina@hotmail.com Each image must have: 1. Title of work 2. Photographer's Name 3. Contact Phone Number PRIZES ·       The two top winners shall get an all-expense paid trip to China for a One Week Exchange program. ·      

Call for Proposals ~ African Artists Mobility Fund

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A collaboration between the British Council’s _in Motion grant and the Prince Claus Fund Mobility Grant. The British Council, and Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development are issuing a Call for Proposals to support Mobility in and from Africa, specifically prioritising young artists and cultural practitioners from a range of African countries. This joint collaboration is intended to assist emerging practitioners from Africa in their professional growth and networking possibilities. The Mobility Fund is aimed at artists and cultural professionals from the following African countries, who are looking to strengthen their cultural practice: Botswana; Ethiopia; Ghana; Kenya; Malawi; Mauritius; Mozambique; Namibia; Nigeria; Rwanda; Senegal; Sierra Leone; South Africa; South Sudan; Sudan; Tanzania; Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe. Eligible travel routes that would be supported include travel within the countries listed above as well as between the above listed African countrie

Call for Applications ~ African Writers Residency

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Deadline: September 7, 2019 The African Writers Development Trust, in partnership with the Writers Guild Kenya, is calling for writers of African descent living in Africa, to apply for the African Writers Residency to hold in November 2019, as part of the PenPen Africa Project. The PenPen Africa project is funded by Culture at Work Africa and co-funded by the European Union. According to Anthony Onugba, the Executive Director of the African Writers Development Trust, applicants from Benin Republic, Burkina Faso, Rwanda, Congo DR, and Nigeria, are invited to apply and are required to submit a nonfiction story of not more than 1500 words on the theme, The African Identity . The fully-funded residency programme will take place in Abuja, Nigeria, in November 2019 for 21 days. Mr Onugba explained that the objectives of the African writers residency programme is to expose African writers to new cultures and encourages local content in African literature, provide tran

Photography Open Call: Recentering Africa in a Digital Universe

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DEADLINE: 14th of September, 2019. Today, the advancement of technology and the digital world is reinventing the African Culture. Terms such as Pan-Africanism, Africanism are becoming more complex to describe. African Traditions are no longer been passed down, traditional roles of men and women in society and family are changing, beliefs are more being tested by logic and sentiments of heritage are being put on the shelf. This year, for the 3rd annual Photocarrefour Exhibition, we are interested in how these changes are shaping a new identity moving forward and what traditions will be emerging in this new African identity. Photographers are invited to visually show some of these changes using their camera. To get started, here are a few photographers who have done works that reflect this thinking. • Cristina de Middel Afronaut • Andrew Esiebo Na God • Osbourne Macharia Send your works (a minimum of 3) to photocarrefour.abj@gmail.com or send to this link: 

Call for entries ~ African Photography Prize 2019

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Deadline: 21 July, 2019 PHmuseum and African Artists' Foundation seek to recognise, honour, and nurture the next generation of visionary image-makers and storytellers in Africa with the AAF x PHmuseam African Photography Prize. ​ To apply, simply sign up at  PHmuseum , upload your project, and add the hashtag #AAFprize. The deadline is set for 21 July.

Call for entries ~ Sarraounia Prize for Young Adult Fiction

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The quest to contribute to the availability of reading material for young African adults, promote literature, and broaden the intellectual horizon of African youth birthed the  Sarraounia Prize for Young Adult Fiction . The Centre for Arts and Culture of Abdou Moumouni University in Niger and Amalion Publishing house in Senegal jointly call for entries for the 2020 edition of the Sarraounia Prize. Every two years, the Sarraounia Prize is awarded to the best unpublished fiction for young adults written in English, French or Hausa by African authors and illustrators based in Africa. For the 2020 edition, the winner will receive a prize of 1,000 euros, and the winning entry will be published and disseminated by Amalion and its partners from May 2020. The Sarraounia Prize will explore all traditional and digital media technologies to disseminate its activities and will endeavour to promote the writer and their work in various forums, in order to bring their work to th

Call for submissions: 2019 ANA Review

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Deadline: Friday, 2nd August, 2019. The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) has announced a call for submissions for the 2019 ANA Review. The ANA Review, published yearly by the ANA, is a journal that seeks to assess the pulse of contemporary Nigerian and African literary writing and critical discourse in the field. All submissions for the 38th edition of ANA Review should be directed to the Association’s Editorial Board headed by the General Secretary. Submissions are expected in the following genres— 1]          Poetry—No more than six poems per submission. 2]          Prose—Short stories or fiction excerpts must be under 4,000 words. 3]          Essays—Academic and literary essays on subjects related to literature, under 5,000 words 4]          Drama—Skits only, under 3,000 words. All submissions should be sent as MS Word attachments via email to: titiaofonime@gmail.com , and nwspublishers2016@gmail.com with the following details on the first page.

Call for Applications: Techpoint Writer Bootcamp Nigeria

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Deadline : June 25, 2019 at 11:59 PM (WAT). If you are passionate about writing and looking to intern with a reputable media organization, the Techpoint Writer Bootcamp should be your destination. The Bootcamp, scheduled to hold from the 17th to 20th of July, 2019 is being organized by Techpoint Africa, a leading media platform based in Lagos, Nigeria that is dedicated to startups, entrepreneurship, innovation and technology in Africa. At the boot camp, 12 successful applicants will receive intensive, hands-on introduction to the world of tech journalism and operations of Techpoint Africa. After the boot camp, 4 lucky writers will be offered a paid 6-month internship with Techpoint, with future work potential for the right candidates. Eligibility Applicants must: Be able to communicate effectively through writing. Be at least 18 years-old by July 17, 2019 Be available for a 3-day stay-in bootcamp in Lagos Be able to work out of Techpoint’s Lagos office (