Abuja Narratives: A call for short story submissions

By Henry Akubuiro
The Abuja Narrative Initiative (TANI), led by Udenta O. Udenta, invites writers to submit short stories for The Abuja Narratives, a curated anthology exploring the many layers of Nigeria’s capital city.
This initiative is a cultural and literary platform dedicated to documenting, interrogating, and amplifying the lived realities, histories, and evolving identities of Abuja.
Conceived as a place-based literary archive, the anthology, themed “Abuja: Seen, Unseen, Remembered, Imagined”, positions Abuja not merely as a backdrop but as a living, breathing force within narrative fiction.
According to editors, “We invite stories that explore Abuja as a fully embodied...