ANA Annual Literary Prizes/Awards

At the last count ANA has 14 literary prizes award categories(for both published and unpublished works) cutting across all the genres of literature and open to both young and old Nigerian writers, at home and abroad, with the least cash prize being ₦50,000 and the highest being $2,500.These prizes, endowed by institutions and individuals and administered by ANA are publicly advertised, entered for, judged by reputable panel of judges and awarded without fail every year as appropriate. The detail of these prizes are as follows:

 

S/No. Competition Category of Entries Prizes
1 ANA/Cadbury Prize for Poetry Published works only $2,500
2 ANA/NDDC Flora Nwapa Prize for Women (Creative) Writing Published works only N100,000
3 ANA/NDDC Gabriel Okara Prize for Poetry Published   unpublished works ₦100,000
4 ANA/NDDC J. P. Clark Prize for Drama Published   unpublished works ₦100,000
5 ANA/NDDC Ken Saro Wiwa Prize for Prose Published   unpublished works ₦100,000
6 ANA/Chevron Prose Prize on Environmental issues (Prose) Published works only $2000
7 ANA/Esiaba Irobi Prize for Playwriting Published   unpublished works ₦50, 000
8 ANA/Jacaranda Prize for Prose Fiction Published works only ₦50,000
9 ANA/Funtime Prize for Children’s Literature (Prose)
*Winning entry to be published by sponsor (Funtime Publications) with a sign on advance royalty of N250,000
unpublished works only, Ages 8-15 ₦150,000
10 ANA/Atiku Abubakar Prize for Children’s Literature Published works and picture books only; Ages 0-7 ₦100,000
11 ANA/Lantern Books Prize for Children’s Fiction
*Winning entry to be published by Lantern Books.
Unpublished works only, Ages 8 – 15 ₦100,000
12 ANA/James Ene Henshaw Prize for Playwriting
*Playwright of winning entry to work with an experienced director for the production of the play
Unpublished play scripts only ₦100,000
13 ANA/NECO Teen Author Prize (prose) Published   unpublished works ₦100,000
14 ANA/Mazariyya Teen Author Prize (poetry) Published   unpublished works ₦50,000

However, during the Remi Raji led ANA National Executive Council (2011-2013) the list of annual prizes were audited to exclude prizes whose sponsors’ were no longer forthcoming or became inoperatable due to some other administrative issues. Consequently, the list of subsisting ANA awards to date is as follows:

S/No. Competition Category of Entries Prizes
1 ANA Prize for Poetry Published   unpublished works ₦100,000.00
2 ANA Prize for Prose Fiction Published   unpublished works ₦100,000.00
3 ANA Prize for Drama Published   unpublished works ₦100,000.00
4 ANA/Maria Ajima Prize for Literary Criticism Focus on criticism of emergent Nigerian Literature ₦100,000.00
5 ANA/Abubakar Gimba Prize for Fiction (Short Stories collections) Published works only ₦200,000.00
6 ANA Children’s Literature Prize (for ages 7-13 years) Published works only ₦100,000.00