Quramo Writers’ Prize/How To Submit (Prize: N1,000,000 + Publishing Deal)
Quramo Writers’ Prize invites unpublished African writers to submit fiction prose manuscripts with a minimum word count of 50,000.
Get your manuscripts into Shape, it’s that time of the year again! Yet another opportunity to make your literary and publishing dreams come true. Quramo Publishing Ltd. (QPL) is officially accepting entries for the 6th edition of its annual Quramo Writers’ Prize (QWP) from February 2026.
Submit from: 13th February to 31st May, 2026
Eligibility for Quramo Prize
- The submission Open worldwide to unpublished African writers. They are inviting unpublished African writers to submit a fiction prose manuscript, with a minimum word count of 30,000. They consider an “African writer” to be someone who is a national of an African country and has a parent who is African by birth or nationality. The Prize is awarded to a fiction prose manuscript by an African writer published in English, whether they reside in Africa or elsewhere.
- Each entry must be an original, unpublished work.
- Self-published or independently published are also not eligible.
- Entry is free
Submissions Guidelines
- Entries should be manuscripts with a minimum of 50,000 words plus one-page synopsis of full-length novels for adults or young adults.
- Users must submit all entries through the official Quramo website and explicitly follow the submission guidelines on the site, as failure to do so may lead to immediate disqualification.
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Short story collections, plays, and poetry are not eligible.
- Submit entries through the submissions portal on the official Quramo website in the following format:
- Times New Roman font type
- MS Word format
- Font Size 12
- Left justified
- 1.5 line spacing
- Page numbers on each page
Prize
- ₦1Million and a publishing deal
- Shortlisted writers will receive feedback, publishing deal consideration, and creative writing workshops.
- Longlisted writers would be given the opportunity to be part of Quramo’s Creative Writing Masterclass.
Good luck!
