Sola Osofisan
03-21-2009, 12:24 AM
OBJECTIVES
The short story is a very important but largely neglected medium for artistic enlightenment and educational development of many cultures. Most creative writers and novelists had started out with short story writing although few have been consistent and successful in handling the difficult compressed narrative structure of the story telling tradition. In African tradition it is an elegant and celebrated means of cultural education and moral upbringing of the young. The Literary Society of Nigeria is poised to revive literary and critical interest in African short fictions and their transmission to the modern world in a new information age.
SUBMISSION FACTS
Submissions are open to all published, not-yet-published, older and younger Nigerian writers.
A writer may submit one or more entries.
Entries with frequent grammatical inaccuracies and tardy typographical finishing will be rejected outright.
Entries in Hausa, Igbo, Efik, Yoruba (and any other Nigerian language of world broadcast) will be considered IF a short English translation is attached.
The Literary Society of Nigeria adopts blind peer review of all submissions and will consider quality of language and style of composition.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Each submission could be less, but not more than, 10,000 words of an original composition.
A story is a work of strong and powerful imagination; although life writing will be considered, submission based on pedestrian concepts, mere journalese and over-beaten concerns will not be fitting for this volume.
A work that relies upon or recreates familiar oral traditions and legends must have at least 75% innovation and variation in its composition.
Stories may reflect aspects of modern or traditional life but credible fictional characterisation (human and animal as in folk tales) and a visionary perspective on conflict within the tradition of the short fiction narrative will merit especial recognition.
Modern literary experimentations across the genres (poetic and dramatic) and the marriage of traditional story telling with modern narrative techniques might prove useful.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE
Entries should be sent to the reviewers at lisonet@gmail.com to reach them not later than August 31, 2009.
All submissions will be read and owners contacted with the reviewers’ reports. LISON will thereafter issue its Publication and Membership notification to successful candidates.
Successful entrants may qualify for membership and accompanying privileges of The Literary Society of Nigeria, and Africa.
http://www.africaresearch.org/lison-net.htm
The short story is a very important but largely neglected medium for artistic enlightenment and educational development of many cultures. Most creative writers and novelists had started out with short story writing although few have been consistent and successful in handling the difficult compressed narrative structure of the story telling tradition. In African tradition it is an elegant and celebrated means of cultural education and moral upbringing of the young. The Literary Society of Nigeria is poised to revive literary and critical interest in African short fictions and their transmission to the modern world in a new information age.
SUBMISSION FACTS
Submissions are open to all published, not-yet-published, older and younger Nigerian writers.
A writer may submit one or more entries.
Entries with frequent grammatical inaccuracies and tardy typographical finishing will be rejected outright.
Entries in Hausa, Igbo, Efik, Yoruba (and any other Nigerian language of world broadcast) will be considered IF a short English translation is attached.
The Literary Society of Nigeria adopts blind peer review of all submissions and will consider quality of language and style of composition.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Each submission could be less, but not more than, 10,000 words of an original composition.
A story is a work of strong and powerful imagination; although life writing will be considered, submission based on pedestrian concepts, mere journalese and over-beaten concerns will not be fitting for this volume.
A work that relies upon or recreates familiar oral traditions and legends must have at least 75% innovation and variation in its composition.
Stories may reflect aspects of modern or traditional life but credible fictional characterisation (human and animal as in folk tales) and a visionary perspective on conflict within the tradition of the short fiction narrative will merit especial recognition.
Modern literary experimentations across the genres (poetic and dramatic) and the marriage of traditional story telling with modern narrative techniques might prove useful.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE
Entries should be sent to the reviewers at lisonet@gmail.com to reach them not later than August 31, 2009.
All submissions will be read and owners contacted with the reviewers’ reports. LISON will thereafter issue its Publication and Membership notification to successful candidates.
Successful entrants may qualify for membership and accompanying privileges of The Literary Society of Nigeria, and Africa.
http://www.africaresearch.org/lison-net.htm