Call for Entries: Nigerian Students Poetry Prize 2020

Submission Deadline: 31st March, 2020

Entries for the Nigerian Students Poetry Prize (NSPP2020) have started since the 15th of January and ends on the 31st of March, 2020.

Winners are to be rewarded with a cash prize of ₦500,000. Each of the top 100 entrants will receive certificates of excellence and complimentary copy of the NSPP anthology featuring their works.

PRIZES:

• 1st Prize – ₦250,000

• 2nd Prize – ₦150,000

• 3rd Prize – ₦100,000

• Consolation Prize – ₦25,000 each for 4th and 5th best entrants

ELIGIBILITY:

• Open to all Nigerian undergraduates studying in Nigeria and the diaspora

• Entrants must be from a recognized tertiary institution

GUIDELINES:

• Submissions are to be made at http://nspp.poetsinnigeria.org.ng, with strict adherence to the instructions thereon.

• Poems must be original intellectual property of the entrants.

• An entrant is entitled to a single entry of 30 lines maximum.

• No fixed themes. Entrants can write on any relevant theme.

• Entries submitted must be previously unpublished. A submission discovered to have defaulted on this rule will be automatically voided.

Read the full guidelines here

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Sai Sabouke is a writer living in New Bussa, Nigeria. He’s a dervish who sees Sufism, history and language as formidable tools for society regeneration. His writing has appeared in Praxis Magazine Online and Agbowo. Sabouke loves beans, coffee and dreams of roasting the entrails of vultures.