Six Literary Prizes Up For Grabs In ANA’s 2026 Literary Prize Edition

The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) has announced call for entries to the 2026 edition of the ANA Literary Prizes.
About six prizes are up for winning for works published between 2025 and 2026. They include the ANA KMVL Prize for Poetry with a N200,000 cash award, the ANA King Dakolo Prize for Fiction Novel with a cash prize of N100,000, the ANA Prize for Drama (Play), and the ANA Amina Talaku Zakama Prize for Literary Criticism, with a N100,000 cash award each.

There is also the ANA Sir Chukwuemeka Sam Nwelue Prize for Non-Fiction for a book of creative non-fiction, travelogues, biography, memoir, essay collections of no less than 100 pages, and the ANA Ngozi Chuma-Udeh Prize for Children’s Fiction (Prose), both spotting a N100,000 cash prize each.

All entries must be the author’s original work that has never been submitted before for an ANA prize. Multiple entries are allowed, provided the competition rules are adhered to. In cases where there is zero submission or one submission in a category, the association reserves the right to “award the prize if the work is deemed deserving, or to defer the prize to a later year. If no entries are received, the prize may be awarded to a deserving book, with the winner receiving a certificate and plaque, but no prize money”.

The deadline for entries is set for June 30, 2026. A shortlist of nominated works will be released in August 2026, while the winners of all prize categories will be announced on the ANA Dinner Night at the 2026 ANA Annual Convention, scheduled to hold October 29 to November 1, 2026.