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NWC Essay Competition

Essay Topic(s): National issues
Essay Level: Undergraduate, Postgraduate
Provider: Naija Writers’ Coach
Country to Write in: Nigeria

Essay Description
Naija Writers' Coach, a weblog run yesteryear a Nigerian who specialises inwards "Helping Writers Live Their Dreams" is announcing the get-go of its annual essay rival tagged Naija Writers' Coach Annual Essay Competition.

The rival is a national platform for Nigerians to limited their opinions on pressing national issues, as well as advance workable as well as sustainable solutions to them. It is opened upwardly to all eligible citizens of Nigeria.

Entries are hereby invited for the 2014 edition of Naija Writers’ Coach Annual Essay Competition. Eligible candidates are encouraged to apply.

Eligibility
Last year, eligibility for the rival was restricted to undergraduates as well as 117 students from 22 tertiary institutions position inwards for it. See 2013 Naija Writer's Coach Essay Competition.

This year, the rival is bigger as well as the prizes heftier. Every Nigerian betwixt the ages of xviii as well as forty is eligible to enter, irrespective of marker of education.

So start writing … you lot could live on i of the 10 smart winners the globe is waiting to see.

Eligible groups
All citizens of Nigeria

Topic
National Conference: a Waste, a Progression or What?

Number of awards
Several volition live on given (see 'Essay benefits' below)

Essay benefits
Prizes include:

• The amount of N30,000, N20,000 as well as N10,000 would live on awarded to the first, minute as well as 3rd prize winners respectively.
• The writers of the 10 best entries would each have a full-fledged website worth over N20,000 to farther hone their writing skills as well as promote their works
• The writers of the 10 best entries would each have a Facebook promotion credit worth N8,000.
• The writers of the 10 best entries would each have a re-create of the book, “Vertical Writing” yesteryear award-winning essayist, Muhammed Abdullahi Tosin, sold for N1,000.

Method of Application
Guidelines:

• The rival is gratis to enter. No entry fee is required.
• Grading of entries would live on exclusively on merit as well as winners would live on announced inwards June 2014.
• Each entry must live on an essay. Poems, curt stories, fictions, etc. are non acceptable.
• Each entry must live on betwixt 500 as well as 700 words.
• Each entry must live on typed inwards Times New Roman, font size 12 as well as double draw of piece of employment spacing.
• No co-authored run would live on accepted.
• Each entry must live on titled using the format: “Full yell NWC 2014”. So an entrant named “Yakubu Adisa Okechukwu” would championship his entry equally “Yakubu Adisa Okechukwu NWC 2014.”
• No personal data similar names as well as emails should seem inwards the torso of the essay. Instead, the submission shape volition capture entrants' personal details.
• Only Nigerians aged 18-40 are eligible to motility into (if you lot emerge a winner, prove of historic catamenia may live on required).
• Submissions should live on made online here. Submissions made yesteryear electronic mail would NOT live on accepted.
• Each entrant must reference non-original materials appropriately as well as ensure that his/her essay is gratis from plagiarism.
• Each of these rules is sacrosanct. Defaulting entries would live on disqualified.

DEADLINES:
The deadline engagement for submission is Mon 26th May, 2014

PLEASE NOTE:
The distinguished panel of judges comprises:

• Dr. Mahfouz Adedimeji (Ag. Director, Center for Peace as well as Strategic Studies, University of Ilorin as well as Columnist, Daily Newswatch Newspaper)
• Temitayo Olofinlua (Award winning essayist as well as Creative Director, Wordsmithy Media)
• Abdul Abdullateef (Award winning essayist as well as Blogger)

Contact
Have you lot got a query?
Ask your questions online via the official website - link to it is below (please don’t transportation your questions yesteryear email; no i would read them if you lot do).

Application Deadline: 26 May 2014
Open to International Applicants: No (ONLY Nigerians)

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