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333:, writers from within Nigeria and elsewhere in the world were invited to submit completed manuscripts in either the fiction or nonfiction category. The prize judges would select five winners from a prior longlist of ten in each category. All shortlisted manuscripts will be published in digital book format and as audiobooks, while partnership deal with a renowned literary publisher within the country would ensure physical book publication. The prize comes with a 100,000 naira advance against royalties. 29: 284:, also featured folksongs from selected Nigerian ethnic groups such as Nupe, Idoma, Kakanda in the original languages and then in English translations. In 2015, a special issue on African literary festivals was produced in collaboration with the Storymoja Festival; it featured essays on selected literary festivals. In 2016, 135:
published by the Saraba Literary Trust in Nigeria. First published in February 2009, it aims "to create unending voices by publishing the finest emerging writers, with focus on writers from Nigeria, and other parts of Africa". It has become one of the most successful literary magazines in and out of
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Until 2017, all publications were made as freely downloadable PDF files or articles on the magazine's website. In February 2017, open submissions were suspended, to be reopened by the end of the year. Intentions to publish at least one print issue every year were also announced.
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was declared the winning manuscript "for his visceral excavations of the subterranean anguish of contemporary life using sinuous, prehensile prose that opens up new aesthetic possibilities in Nigerian fiction.”
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editions are published quarterly, mostly as themed issues. Prequel and supplementary editions as well as collective and individual poetry chapbooks have also been published with the first chapbook titled
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awarded the PEN Nigeria/Saraba Poetry Prize to the writer of a winning poem selected from all poems published the preceding year in the magazine or poetry chapbooks.
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has published a number of writers from Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa who have gone on to garner international renown, and notable careers such as
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The magazine's poetry is edited by Adebiyi Olusolape, nonfiction by Arthur Anyaduba and fiction by Ayobami Adebayo and
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announces a call for submission to a themed forthcoming issue that would be released usually on the next quarter.
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often collaborates with other literary institutions to produce special editions. In 2011,
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In August 2015, the Saraba Manuscript Prize was announced. Supported by the
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has also published poetry chapbooks by Umar Abubakar Sidi, Tunji Olalere,
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Saraba Literary Trust is a registered literary nonprofit that publishes
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Mosaic: Stitches of Stories Lived, Stories Learned and Stories Told
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and Jumoke Verissimo as part of their Individual Chapbook Series.
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Annually, from 2011 to 2013, in collaboration with PEN Nigeria,
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serves as Editor with Adaudo Anyiam-Osigwe as Managing Editor.
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was the first attendee. Ajayi and Iduma would go on to found
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and Arthur Anyaduba, in Obafemi Awolowo University, of which
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published another special issue on the 2015 edition of the
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was founded in 2008 after a writing workshop organized by
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created a literary exchange project for writers from
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Life on a Blackboard – Vignettes of a Queer Nigerian
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