Offered Benefits

Aside rewarding the prize winners with a total cash prize of ₦400,000, exceptional entrants will each receive a certificate of excellence and complimentary copy of the NSPP anthology which features their works.

• 1st Prize – ₦200,000
• 2nd Prize – ₦100,000
• 3rd Prize – ₦50,000
• Consolation Prize – ₦25,000 each for 4thand 5th best entrants

Application Process

• Poems must focus on any of these themes:
  • Individual and Collective Humanity in a Corona-Ravaged World
  • Identity: Faces and Phases
  • Politics of Retrogression
• Also, entrants must give unique titles to their works (Avoid using the wording of the themes as the title of your entry).
• Indicate the theme selected beneath your work.
• Likewise, poems must be the original intellectual property of the entrants.
• Also, entries submitted must be previously unpublished.
• Entering for the contest gives PIN automatic right to make use of entries as deemed appropriate.
• Furthermore, entries must be written in English.
• Likewise, entrants should subscribe to www.poetsinnigeria.org.ng for regular updates.