ChannelsTV Launches Book Review Essay Competition for Teens

The Channels Book Club, a subsidiary of ChannelsTV, is launching a national book review competition for Nigerian teenagers. 

The competition, which is sponsored by the Goethe Institut, Laterna Books and Lufthansa Airlines, is aimed at secondary school students in Nigeria's 36 states aged 19 and younger. Interested teens are to read Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and review the novel in an original 1,500-word essay. The ten best candidates chosen at the reading and review stage will be invited to discuss their work before a panel of judges, and a winner selected from among them.
The first-prize winner will enjoy a sponsored trip to the 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany and N50,000 worth of books. The second-prize winner will be sponsored to attend the Ake Arts and Book Festival in Abeokuta, Ogun State this November and N50,000 worth of books, while the third-prize winner will receive N50,000 worth of books.
The competition will be supervised by a three-member panel of judges composed of experts and active participants in the Nigerian literary industry in Nigeria. ChannelsTV has a proven track record in encouraging Nigerian teenagers to discover their talents: four years ago, it launched the Channels Kids Cup, an annual event for young aspiring professional footballers. Teens interested in the book review and essay competition (which closes on August 31, 2013) can sign up by filling out the application form (which can be found here).
We at ZODML are thrilled that ChannelsTV shares our passion for developing Nigeria’s reading culture and bringing out the best in our youth (see the recent launch of our BookCorner project, which is taking books to secondary schools across the country), and can’t wait to see the great writing the emerging book critics produce!
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