After
months of several interesting entry submissions and countless number of
votes, Nigeria’s fastest growing telecommunications network, Etisalat has officially released successful entries that made the longlist for the 2015 edition of the Etisalat Prize for Literature Flash Fiction Category.
Out
of over a thousand entries that were received between the 9th November
2015 and the 25th November 2015, the books that made the list include; Above
Board, Zebra Crossing, Satan Be Gone, 3x, Blood on The Bench, The Time
in Her Name, Human, Ole, Blood on The Soil, On Duty, The Surrogate, The
Stoning of The Prophet, Para-Dise, Funke, He Was A Threat, Fetters in
Love, Ìdànrè, August Meeting, Tears Salvation, Why I Broke The
Gramophone, In the Act, True Beauty, Madness In Degrees, Free at Last,
What a Day Offers and My Father.
Others are The
Covens of Umuofia, It’s in The Walk, A Moment’s Worth, A Baby Changes
Everything, Total Ubunyama, TsuntsunMakka, Hadiza’s Walls, I Was Papa’s
Son, Tears of The Harmattan, Tipped Over, Samuel, Help, The Church
Whisperer, The Word Catcher, Nameless, Homebound, In Loving Memory,
Gone, Curse Of The Seven Days, Invincible, Eba, EfoRiro and A Serving of
Tears, Broken Voices, The Bond, Dan Ruwa and And Death Doth Pass Me By.
The Flash Fiction category is designed to celebrate short stories by upcoming writers.
The
winning author will be rewarded with a cash prize of £1,000, a high-end
device and the promotion of published e-books, while two runners up
will each receive £500 cash prize and a high-end device. Tanzanian
writer and poet, Neema Komba, won the 2014 edition of the competition.
Full
stories and details of the top contenders whose entries are now being
assessed by the judging panel chaired by seasoned writer and publisher Toni Kan to select the winning flash fiction writer can be viewed at http://prize.etisalat.com.ng/flash/vote/
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