Submission Guidelines

• All submitted entries MUST be made on the KANAC Competiton Portal. There MUST not be anything like name(s) or other forms of identity on the manuscript being submitted.
• Consult our submission guide for step-by-step instructions on submitting an entry.
• The personal details of the person making submissions (like names) will be required while the person is signing up at the KANAC submission portal.
• Once the intending participants has successfully paid the required submission fee on our secure payment platform, permission will be given to uploaded your entry. It is only when this fee is confirmed as paid, will the submission process be completed.
• All successful submissions will be automatically acknowledged via email.

Payment of
Submission Fees

Each submission must be accompanied by a submission fee of one thousand Naira only for Nigerian citizens and 10 Euros for other nationalities. While a participant is allowed to make up to three different submission, the person is not allowed to submit up to two entries in one category/genre. Maximum number of submissions per participant is three, and the participant is expected to pay One Thousand Naira for each submission.

All works that successfully scale through the KANAC’s authenticity process will be considered for online publication. Once the intending participants has signed up, the person will be taken to a secure payment platform, where the submission fee will be paid. It is only when this fee is confirmed as paid, will the participant be allowed to uploaded his/her entry.

Promotion of Merit in the
Creative Writing Industry

In order to promote meritocracy, KANAC adopts a blind review system in assessing all entries for all her competitions. Towards this end, all interested participants are warned not to put their names or any form of identity on the entry that they are submitting for the competition. All entries with names or any form(s) of identification shall be disqualified. All submissions must be made via the KANAC submission portal and not through emails. All entries that pass through KANAC’s submission portal are automatically coded. Only coded entries are sent to judges for assessment.

Shortlist

Before a final winner is selected, the KANAC Creative Writing Competition has three rounds in her selection process. The first round is immediately after the expiration of the deadline for the general call for submissions. The judges scrutinize all entries and nominate the ones that have potential for winning. The owners of all these entries are invited for interaction during the “authenticity” process. After this, the third and final selection of the overall winner is made. After much scrutiny, a winner is selected and the cash prize is bestowed to the winner in a ceremony that is meant for that purpose.

Donors and Sponsors

The cash prizes are realized from sponsors and donors, who are acknowledged during each award-giving ceremony. The names of sponsors are acknowledged in all the books of anthologies that are published withing a specific year.

Eligibility

This competition is open to anyone, above 18 years of age, that is interested in the art of creative writing, irrespective of citizenship or race.