Dusty Manuscript: A Chance For Budding Authors

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...Submission closes on the 31st March
The chance for all those young budding writers, who have written wonderful stories but have seen them just remain in the shelf has come to have their dusty manuscripts published.

‘The Dusty Manuscript’, a corporate social responsibility initiative of GTBank  launched at the Herbert Macaulay Library, Yaba Lagos comes to fill this role. The Duty Manuscript seeks to select creative young writers to support and nurture through a keen contest.

The contest is organised in partnership with Okada Books and Farafina. The initiative is aimed at giving upcoming
writers the opportunity to win publishing
deals for their completed but unpublished manuscripts.

According to the organisers, a total of one million entries are expected from the writers. The entries will then be pruned to 100 after which a panel of judges will whip them to 25. Eghosa Imaseun, Toni Kan, Yejide Kilanko and Ainehi Edoro-Glines comprise the panel of judges who will review the manuscripts.

The top 25 entries will be invited to a two-day boot camp training on writing, marketing and branding while the top three will win publishing deals, with the overall winner earning N1m.

The top three entries in the contest will also be rewarded with publishing contracts with Farafina as well as cash rewards. The top 10 entries will get their books e-published by Okadabooks and this includes a book cover design, book editing, and publicity.

Segun Agbaje, managing director of GTB, said the contest is to help elevate the works of indigenous writers as well as to inspire and develop the next generation of award-winning authors.

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