On behalf of the Abugi family, the Hill-Top Creative Arts Foundation is pleased to announce the shortlist of the 2024 AS Abugi National Prize for Short Story: Only one winner emerges to clinch the N100, 000 annual prize. The AS Abugi National Prize for Short Story is endowed by Alkasim Abdulkadir on behalf of the…
The Lagos branch of the Hill-Top Creative Arts Foundation has won the 2024 Best Performing Branches Award of the foundation. The branch, which is led by Mahmoodah Oyeleye, a 1st Class graduate of Economics from Lagos State University and the author of Faded Blues, has been the pioneer chairperson of the branch since 2021. According…
My phone beeped to announce a new email. It was from Zainab Dzukogi, the director of the Muktar Aliyu Art Residency, Minna. I hesitated. It has been around a week since I sent my application. What if the email was informing me that I hadn’t been selected? But as a writer, I was already used…
Motto: Create for wealth There is a new writers organisation in Minna which is elitist, comprising of established writers within the city. It was formed in later 2022. The writers’ organisation is a cooperative organisation established to publish and promote books of its members. Nothing more. To be a member, you must be ready to…
Motto:- Say no to Language Extinction This is a Nupe language and literacy/literary organisation established by Adamu Idris Manarakis to preserve, promote and develop its autography and literatures for studies and public utilisation. VISION To encourage the use of Niger State’s indigenous languages in both spoken and written forms within the family, community and in official…
