ANA’s Ken Saro-Wiwa Residency Opens Application For Maiden Edition

The Affiliation of Nigerian Writer (ANA) has opened name for utility to its maiden version of the Ken Saro-Wiwa Residency.

The residency which can happen at ANA’s Mamman Jiya Vatsa Writers Village in Mpape, Abuja, is geared toward offering writers a possibility to finish a literary manuscript, foster creativity and cross-cultural change amongst chosen residents, and facilitate mentorship of rising writers by the established ones from totally different components of Africa, via sharing of their experiences, to develop their craft, and contribute to the event of the continent’s literary panorama.

The residency is known as after ANA former president, journalist and environmental activist, who alongside eight others had been accused of trumped-up costs and executed throughout Nigeria’s darkest navy regime.

To qualify for the residency, candidates should be training inventive writers primarily based in Africa and dealing on both the fiction, non-fiction, poetry and literary criticism. They work(s) will need to have been printed in any print media of reputation or authored a e book.

They have to additionally submit a two-page complete resume, two referral letters, a pattern of the inventive piece they’re at the moment engaged on, and can resume with on the residency. The submissions should be for non-fiction, fiction and literary criticism, together with a 500 to 750 phrases pattern of the work they intend to concentrate on throughout their keep on the residency. And for the poetry submissions – 5 poems from their work-in-progress.

Chosen candidates are entitled to N15,000 weekly bills, two additional weeks on the resident’s expense and N100,000 lump-sum transportation price for Nigerian, and N200,000 for worldwide residents.

Software closes Saturday July 12, 2025, whereas residency begins from August 30 to October 11, 2025.