Cafe 24 Calls For Submissions Under The Theme “Retrogression”.

Cafe 24 is a bi-weekly competition aimed at budding poets in Nigeria run under the umbrella of Konya Shamsrumi, an African poetry publishing company based in Nigeria with a stipend attached to the winning poem alongside publication on their website.

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As the year continues to run, the call continues with this month’s theme being “Retrogression”.

Poets, especially younger poets are encouraged to send in their original work which has not been published.

The competition is sponsored by Daisy Odey and entries will be judged by Su’eddie Agema.

Daisy Odey

Su’eddie Vershima Agema

How to participate?

Send your submissions to https://shamsrumi.org/submissions/

Good luck.

We look forward to meeting our newest winner.

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