SEVHAGE is proud to invite entries from the general public in the categories for the 2024 edition: Professor Hyginus Ekwuazi, multiple award-winning multi-genre writer, scholar, Professor of Broadcast Media and former Vice Chancellor of the Dominican University Ibadan, will serve as the Chief Judge for this year’s prizes, ensuring the selection of the highest-quality entries. … Continue reading
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Michael Imossan Wins 2024 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets
Nigerian poet, playwright, and editor Michael Imossan has been announced as the winner of the 2024 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets with his collection All that Refuses to Die. Imossan is the twelfth winner of the prize and joins the ranks of fellow Nigerian poets Tares Oburumu (Origins of the Syma Species, 2022) … Continue reading
THE EVENING NEWS AND BEYOND: A Conversation with Damilola Omotoyinbo on Writing, Winning, and the Nigerian Experience
Damilola Omotoyinbo is a Nigerian Poet/Writer, a 2019 Fellow of the Ebedi International Writers Residency, and a member of the Frontiers Collective. She emerged as Winner of the 2023 Writivism Poetry Prize. She has also won several poetry honors. Notably; Co-Winner of the 2023 Writing Ukraine Prize, 2023 SEVHAGE/Agema-Founders Prize (for Poetry), 2021 SprinNg Annual … Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: INCREMENT TO THE E. E. SULE/SEVHAGE PRIZE FOR AFRICAN LITERARY CRITICISM 2024 [DEADLINE: 24th August 2024]
SEVHAGE is delighted to announce that the prize money for the E. E. Sule/SEVHAGE Prize for African Literary Criticism 2024 has been increased from ₦100,000 (One Hundred Thousand Naira) to ₦285,000 (Two Hundred and Eighty-Five Thousand Naira). This increase was made possible through the kind generosity of an anonymous donor, in recognition of the work … Continue reading
SEVHAGE POET JUNE 2024: JIDE BADMUS, THE ENGINEERING POET
One of the more consistent poets on the Nigerian scene today is the vocal and sometimes controversial, Jide Badmus, a passionate poet and literary promoter who through the years has come to be a leading literary voice. Though Badmus has been writing for a long time (about twenty years), his first published poetry collection is … Continue reading
SEVHAGE’s DUL JOHNSON WINS THE ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIAN AUTHORS/ABUBAKAR GIMBA PRIZE FOR SHORT STORIES 2023
SEVHAGE author, Dul Johnson has clinched the Association of Nigerian Authors/Abubakar Gimba Prize for Short Stories 2023 with the short story collection, When Dreams Burn (SEVHAGE/NIPRI, 2023). The ANA prizes, which are among the most prestigious literary prizes in Nigeria were announced on the 4th of November, 2023 at the Association’s annual convention held in … Continue reading
SEVHAGE AUTHOR ABUCHI MODILIM LONGLISTED FOR THE NLNG NIGERIA PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2023
SEVHAGE author, Abuchi Modilim, has been longlisted for the NLNG’s $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature with his book, The Brigadiers of a Mad Tribe. The announcement was made yesterday by Professor Akachi Ezeigbo, chair of the Advisory Board of the prize, at a press conference yesterday. It is a completely crazy world that Abuchi Modilim throws … Continue reading
SEVHAGE Author, Su’eddie Vershima Agema in final three shortlist running for Africa’s most prestigious prize, the NIGERIA PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
Memory and the Call of Water by SEVHAGE author and CEO, S. Su’eddie Vershima Agema is in the running of the final 3 shortlist for the $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature, which is considered the most prestigious prize for literature in Africa. The poetry collection interrogates personal and communal experiences in tunes that everyone will … Continue reading
SEVHAGE and KONYA SHAMSRUMI Release a brief history of july part II by tares oburumu
SEVHAGE and Konya SHAMSRUMI, popular poetry promoters in Africa, are proud to publish a brief history of july part II by the poet, Tares Oburumu. The chapbook is a collection of twenty-one poems that are “a personal meditation, an autobiographical exploration of a poet, the circumstances of his birth and his immediate lineage.” Tares Oburumu … Continue reading
Prof Dul Johnson reads at Federal College of Education Pankshin
The room was electric as the students listened to the charged words of famed author and Deputy Vice Chancellor of Bingham University, Professor Dul Johnson talk about literary craft in general and his writing specifically. The 200 level students of FCE Pankshin, Plateau State drank in the wisdom of the learned professor who is also … Continue reading