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Five Nigerian Writers have emerged winners at the just concluded Ecuador/Nigeria Young Writers Short Story contest. The President of the Abuja Writers Forum (AWF), Mr. Emman Usman Shehu announced this in a statement. The winning stories are Wellington Street by Tunde Ososanya which won the first position and Canvas of Colours by Jude Valentine Badaki which came second. Other winning entries are The Tale of ‘Alvine’ Chike by Nzube Harry Nlebedim (third position), On The Shores of Death by Blessing Akinsehinwa (fourth position) while Killing Me Softly by Jojo Altine ElHassan emerged fifth position. The first Ambassador of Ecuador to Nigeria, Mr Leopold Verdosoto had announced the sponsorship of the Short Story Contest for young writers from Ecuador and Nigeria during the Guest Writer Session of the Abuja Writers Forum (AWF) in Abuja on June 24, 2017, where he said the winners will be published in English and Spanish, which are the official languages of Nigeria and Ec

Salamatu Sule is a writer, book reviewer and Literary Agent. The former Secretary Association of Nigeria Authors Abuja Chapter, runs a literary agency called the Fahimta Literary Discourse where  beside mediating on behalf of writers, authors and publishers, she also promote books by holding book chats and book distribution. She recently returned from Lebanon on a cultural visit facilitated by the Study Abroad In Lebanon (SAIL) programme.   TAMF :  I'd like you to talk about your book chats with authors. What are the thrills you get and how do authors and the audiences in your book chats engage with each other? Salamatu Sule : Book Chats especially what I do with Spilling-The-Ink with Salamatu Sule is something new and a bit creative. I wanted something more engaging and interactive and to reach more people especially those who are book lovers so we design it for the TV as a show that is fun but educational. TAMF . So it runs on which TV stations? Salamat

Introduction Nigeria is made up of two broad regions: Northern and Southern Nigeria. Northern Nigeria is a region with a diverse social cultural make up. It is a multi-ethnic and religious region consist of three sub-regions popularly known as geopolitical zones: North Central, North East, and North West zones that has nineteen states and Federal capital territory (FCT) all together today . Language is a means of communicating between two or more people in a particular area or medium. It could be oral or written. Virtually, one finds two or more speakers of a Nigerian language in almost all the regions of the country because of our integrated demography overtime. Mutual struggle to make ends meet led to migration of southerners to the North, and vice versa. So, today, there are Igbos, Yoruba, Hausas, Fulfulde, Nupes in also every state of the federation. When one visits Sabongari in Kano, you will think one is in Aba, Abia State, likewise if you are in Sabo in Ibadan, O

In 2014, the Abuja Writers Forum (AWF) started a Writing Workshop series covering introductory, intermediate and advanced phases of fiction, poetry and drama writing.  Yakori bint Muhammad is attending the ninth introductory edition of the workshop on poetry which began last Saturday 7 th October 2017, to continue on the 14 th , 21 st and end on Saturday, 28 th October. She reflects on the workshop and adds words of advice for budding writers. Gratitude: A Writer's Reflection 7th October, 2017. By Yakori bint Muhammed Yesterday, I posted 3 quotes of mine on my status on WhatsApp in gratitude to writing for how much I'd earned and improved all through these years in my writing journey. They were my earliest compositions, which over the years birth the reflective type of writing which I never knew I could do. My forte had been poetry and not prose. So, I have been sceptical to venture into prose. Yet, nature steered my path to forms it knew defined my path

Ikeogu Oke, has emerged winner of the 2017 NLNG Prize for Literature for his book The Heresiad . Oke won the Prize over Tanure Ojaide, who wrote Songs of Myself Quartet , and Ogaga Ifowodo, who authored A Good Mourning . Announcing this yesterday in Lagos, Emeritus Professor Ayo Banjo who Chair of the Prize Advisory Committee observed that Oke had won the Prize for his groundbreaking lyrical contents among other considerations by the judges. Professor Banjo, who commended the panel of judges, said they did a painstakingly thorough job to select the best work for the award. In his words, the Chairman of the Panel of Judges, Professor Ernest Emenyonu said “Oke’s poetry collection reveals a conscious /deliberate manipulation of language and philosophy in the style that reminds us of the writings of great Greek writers of Homeric and Hellenistic periods.” He disclosed that 184 entries of various poetry collections were received for this year’s prize from w

********THE MORGUE********* The air was cold and damp, more from the rain than the air conditioning, the walls white and pristine. Over a hundred silver freezers were scattered across the tiled floor, in a sequential assemblage. They glimmered under the white fluorescent, the glow hurting his eyes a little, the reality stinging him; not everyone ends up in a mortuary, but everyone ends up dead. Someday, somehow. "This way," the medical examiner's voice broke through his thoughts. He'd forgotten her name the minute she said it. But she was taking a left turn, and he also made the turn, just in time to avoid colliding with a freezer. A few paces, and she finally stopped in front of a three body refrigerator with the figures "85" engraved in it. Numbering. He thought sadly. An easy way of identification. "The diener just left." She said quietly, turning to look at him. "Your wife may have been here only six hours, but the other