After The End Book Review Competition / Prize: NGN230,000
Are you a book reviewer or critic? Then, write and submit your review of After the End by Olukorede Yishau to win a cash prize.
Literary enthusiasts and critics have a new opportunity to showcase their talents through the exciting book review competition for After the End by Olukorede S. Yishau. This competition invites participants to craft insightful reviews of this powerful novel, providing a platform to engage deeply with its narrative and themes.
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. (afapien.com)
After the End Book Review Competition 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.
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Deadline for submission is 10 September, 2024, 23:00 WAT.
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The winners will be announced on Afapinen on 17 September, 2024
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The winners’ reviews will be published in Afapinen.
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The entries will be judged by Tope-EniObanke Adegoke.
After the End Book Review Competition Prizes
- First prize:
N150,000 - Second prize:
N50,000 - Third prize:
N30,000
About the Book
One death. Four lives.
Idera: The new widow who discovers her perfect husband’s heartbreaking secret, and must live with the after-effects of his legacy while raising her three sons.
Demola: Despite his vow to be different from the father who abandoned him, inescapably makes some of the same choices his father made.
Lydia: Struggling with personal insecurities, she battles herself on how to stop loving an unworthy man too much and for far too long.
Justus: The ex-political prisoner who tries to rebuild his life and find peace in exile but can’t outrun his past.
Spanning Lagos, Liverpool, Ile-Ife, and London, After the End traces the journeys of four intertwined lives as they navigate personal growth, betrayal, forgiveness, and unforgiving pasts. And eventually, they will realise that death is not quite the end they thought it was.
After the End is available at major bookstores across the nation.
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