What is your full name and what is the meaning of your Igbo name? Where are you from and has your native background any leanings on your writing? My full name is Ifeanacho MaryAnn Uchechukwu. There’s more sha but this is what the government knows. Uchechukwu means the will of God. My complete version of my surname … Continue reading
SEVHAGE Literary and Development Initiative and the ALINEA Initiative are delighted to announce the launch of the Eugenia Abu/SEVHAGE International Prize for Creative Nonfiction, funded and administered by their organisations. This prize, named in honour of the distinguished writer, broadcaster, and media consultant Eugenia Abu, aims to celebrate outstanding creative nonfiction from writers worldwide, highlighting … Continue reading
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
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
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
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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
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 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, 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
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
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