In celebration of Olukorede S. Yishau’s recently published novel, After the End, from Masobe Books, reviewers are invited to submit a review of the novel. We are looking for critical reviews that will engage and expand the appreciation of the novel.
There is no precise rule, or rules, for how you engage a work under review. But certain things make a good review stand out, and that is what we are looking for in your submitted entries. It is important to creatively situate your text under review, as well as engage it in actual literary discourse and appreciation following the book’s attempt at interpreting truths about life or the human condition.
We prize erudition and the celebration of language, above all. We will look out for these in submitted entries.
About the author
Olukorede S. Yishau is a Nigerian creative writer and multiple award-winning journalist. His first novel In The Name of Our Father was nominated for the Nigerian Prize for Literature in 2021. After The End is his fourth book and second novel. Yishau is the United States Bureau Chief for The Nation Newspapers. He lives in Houston, Texas.
Entry regulations
The prize is open to writers not more than 35 years old, from any part of the world.
Entries should not be less than 1,800 words and not more than 3,000 words.
Entries must be submitted via this Google form.
Deadline for submission is 10 September, 2024, 23:00 WAT.
The winners will be announced on Afapinen on 17 September, 2024
The winners’ reviews will be published in Afapinen.
The entries will be judged by Tope-EniObanke Adegoke. Adegoke is a literary theorist and critic. He has a Wawa Book Review-Goethe Institut certificate in literary criticism and has written dozens of book reviews for Wawa Book Review and Africa in Words.
Prizes
First prize: N150,000
Second prize: N50,000
Third prize: N30,000
Yishau’s After the End is available via Roving Heights, Patabah Books, Ouida Books, Adams Pages, Terrakulture, The Book Market, Spine and Label, Bookville World, Bookpeddler, Jazzhole, Dainz Books, Fasaha Books, Just Read, Page Book, Chapters Books, Lumbooks, Bella Books, BBIP Bookstore, Book Nook, Boldoz Books, and Book O’clock.
We are looking forward to your submissions. Best of luck. You can read Adegoke’s interview with Yishau on the novel here.
This competition is organised by Tope-EniObanke Adegoke in partnership with Afapinen.
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