The Quramo Writers’ Prize, powered by independent Nigerian book publisher Quramo Publisher, is calling on African writers to submit for its 2024 Edition!
Now in its eighth year, the Prize is open to unpublished African writers living within and outside the continent.
Entrants must be at least 16 years old, and the manuscript must be prose fiction with a word count of at least 30,000. Each entry must be an original, unpublished work.
For the context of this prize, an “African writer” is taken to mean someone who is a national of an African country, with a parent who is African by birth or nationality. The Prize is awarded to a fiction prose manuscript by an African writer published in English, whether they reside in Africa or elsewhere.
The winner of the Quramo Writers’ Prize will receive a monetary prize and a publishing deal. Other writers who make the shortlist will also benefit from a creative writing workshop and miscellaneous prizes.
Created in 2017 as an avenue for fresh writers to showcase their manuscripts to the global literary community and contribute their works to the canonisation of African literature, the Quramo Writers’ Prize celebrates unpublished writers who are working every day to hone their craft and record original stories from the African continent.
The prize aims to encourage and stimulate a new community of talented writers, providing an opportunity for otherwise unexposed talent to achieve publishing recognition and encouragement. Previous winners include Samuel Monye’s Give Us Each Day, Ibrahim Babatunde Ibrahim’s Giveaway Bride, Alex Kadiri’s Sunshower and Chiziterem Chijioke’s Dear Zimi.
Quramo Publishing also has a film production wing, where it brings its published books to the big screen and produces commissioned projects.
The submission window, which opened on March 1, closes on May 31, 2024. For more information, click here: