Submission of entries for 2020 Quramo Writers’ Prize ongoing  

Submission of entries for the Quramo Writers’ Prize 2020 is ongoing and will end on July 30, organisers have said.

The Quramo Writers’ Prize (QWP) is an African award for new and emerging writers. It celebrates unpublished writers working to hone their craft and record the continent’s original stories.

A statement from Quramo Publishing Limited, an independent media company, invited interested unpublished writers to submit a manuscript, with a minimum word count of 30,000.

Each entry, the company said, must be an original, unpublished work of fiction. It asked interested participants to visit www.quramo.com, to read the entry rules and guidelines, terms and conditions, and upload their entries.

Vivian Onyekachi Ibe won the 2019 edition of the prize with her manuscript entitled ‘What Dreams Are Made Of’. The first female winner in the prize’s three-year history got a cash prize of one million naira alongside a possible book publishing deal for her efforts. The other past winners are Samuel Monye and Emmanuel Michael.

The best for 2020 will also get the winner’s prize and be eligible for a publishing contract with Quramo Publishing Limited.

Quramo Publishing has since 2015, published works of historical nonfiction, contemporary fiction, and children’s books, by authors including Yejide Kilanko, Abimbola Dare, and Sefi Atta. 

The company also creates, organises and curates initiatives to provide a richer, more rewarding experience for readers and writers. One of these is its first foray into film production with the docu-film and series, ‘Journey of an African Colony’, based on two of its published titles, ‘Possessed’ and ‘A Platter of Gold’, historical accounts of Nigeria’s journey to independence by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Supo Shasore. 

The Quramo Writers’ Prize (QWP) was launched in 2017 to develop and promote unpublished Nigerian, and African writers in Nigeria and across the globe.