The fault for a badly written book lies with the writer while the fault for a badly published book belongs to the publisher’ while the shame is a joint venture. A respectable publisher should never knowingly publish a bad book.
“FACEBOOK IS NOT A SAFE PLACE TO POST YOUR POEMS” & OTHER ISSUES FOR NIGERIAN POETS
Again, by saving your works and releasing them only on foreign platforms, you are inadvertently taking everything away from us and making us have to borrow access. Right now, we can no longer read anything from most of our good poets unless we first access them from foreign platforms.
9 MUST-FOLLOW NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS FOR NIGERIAN WRITERS & READERS
A new year is here. 2019 has arrived as a blank book and a pen in your hands for you to write whatever you please. While you decide what to...
WRITING, PUBLISHING: THE FOUR CAREER STAGES OF AUTHORSHIP by King Samuel Benson
Every published author, whether traditionally published or indie published, fall into one of these four career stages of authorship. THE UNKNOWN AUTHOR All authors start out from this stage. This...
ANA REVIEW 2016: EDITORIAL NOTE BY RICHARD ALI
(Released at the 2016 ANA Convention) For the third time, it is my honour and delight to present the ANA Review, a journal of the Association of Nigerian Authors, to...
AFRICAN AUTHORS DON’T WRITE BOOKS OF INTEREST — Ray Ndebi
Ray Ndebi is a Cameroon writer and reviewer. He is the author of THE LAST GHOST: Son of Struggle, a novel. Ndebi lives in Yaoundé and works online with many...
“Nigerian writing is currently an iceberg” —Emmanuel Frank-Opigo
Emmanuel Ayibaemi Frank-Opigo, an engineer and a poet, is the Director of Works and Services at the Niger Delta University, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. He was the Chairman of the State Branch...
APPLY FOR THE WRR-CAPRECON GREEN AUTHOR PRIZE
WORDS RHYMES & RHYTHM LTD in partnership with CAPRECON DEVELOPMENT CONSULT is pleased to announce the ‘WRR-CAPRECON GREEN AUTHOR PRIZE’ for young, unpublished Nigerian poets. The prize was initiated in...
APPLY FOR THE WRR-GREEN AUTHOR PRIZE 2015
WORDS RHYMES & RHYTHM LTD is pleased to announce the ‘GREEN AUTHOR PRIZE’ for young, unpublished Nigerian poets. The prize was initiated in recognition of the need to give upcoming...
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize 2013
[caption id="attachment_6115" align="aligncenter" width="545"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Eriata Oribabor Poetry Prize 2013][/caption]World over, the effectiveness of literature, and indeed poetry, as an agent of change is well recognized. It is in recognition...