![PRESS RELEASE: INCREMENT TO THE E. E. SULE/SEVHAGE PRIZE FOR AFRICAN LITERARY CRITICISM 2024 [DEADLINE: 24th August 2024]](https://sevhage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/sevhage-k-l-prizes-2024-2.png?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "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
![CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: K & L FICTION PRIZE [DEADLINE: 29th August 2024 11:59 WAT]](https://sevhage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/k-and-l-2024-new.jpg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: K & L FICTION PRIZE [DEADLINE: 29th August 2024 11:59 WAT]")
We are proud to announce the K & L Short Story Prize 2024, the SEVHAGE Prizes category for Short Fiction 2024, open to African writers globally. This year, we are open to stories that focus on mental health and reduce stigma while encouraging positive stories to promote well-being. This is open to the interpretation of the … 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
Dear Readers,We are thrilled to announce the online publication of an easy-read emotionally charged short story, While We Watched by Chichi Uba. This poignant tale which was birthed and published in March, takes us on a journey through the depths of raw pain, unexpected love, loss, and renewal. Continue reading
![AN EVENING OF READINGS AT THE POETRY ON THE GO [PoGo] SESSION AND FABRICE GAGOS’S PORTRAITS OF THE NOTTINGHAM POETRY FESTIVAL](https://sevhage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/gpc07x1akaabctg.png?w=188&h=162&crop=1 "AN EVENING OF READINGS AT THE POETRY ON THE GO [PoGo] SESSION AND FABRICE GAGOS’S PORTRAITS OF THE NOTTINGHAM POETRY FESTIVAL")
by Su’ur Su’eddie Vershima Agema The Nottingham Poetry Festival 2024, held from the 7th to the 16th of June across various libraries in the city, featured amazing events. However, attending them all was always going to be daunting with the conflicting events and more importantly, the busyness of one’s schedules. With lots of hopping across … Continue reading
In this interview, SEVHAGE author, Amaka Felly Obioji, development enthusiast and author of Mother, Did You Call My Name? is in conversation with Jola Ademola on her writing and much more. Enjoy: JOLA: What inspired you to compile and publish “Mother, did you call my name?” AMAKA: I have always been writing short-form poetry that I usually … Continue reading
A Cry for Mercy is a book of lamentations. A distraught persona navigates mystical terrains with a carnal compass—interrogates pain from a spiritual slant. This 123-paged poetry book is a collection of letters to God. It’s like a diary—frustrated monologues & aching contemplations—mistakenly left in the open. Who writes letters, you wonder, in this age, … Continue reading
OPEN TO Africans all over the world. PRIZE: N285,000 for one winner + publication. DEADLINE: 24th August 2024 11:59pm WAT In celebrating and making more visible the culture of criticism, SEVHAGE will award the E. E. SULE/SEVHAGE Prize for African Literary Criticism for an outstanding well-researched work of literary criticism or critical appraisal in form … Continue reading
Number of pages: 111 Publisher: Cookingpot Publisher Place of publication: Jackson, Tennessee Year of publication: 2024 Genre: Children’s Literature With a story built on the innocence of children, siblings scuffle, and every banality of human existence in its beauty, a single switch, which begins with the contamination of a river breaks everything. Friendship tore apart, … Continue reading
Dear Readers,We are thrilled to announce the online publication of an easy-read emotionally charged short story, “While We Watched” by Chichi Uba. This poignant tale which was birthed earlier this month, takes us on a journey through the depths of raw pain, unexpected love, loss, and renewal. Set in the backdrop of a university … Continue reading
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