END SARS National Poetry Competition, over $200 up for grab for Young Writers

 

END SARS NATIONAL POETRY COMPETITION, OVER $200 UP FOR GRAB FOR YOUNG WRITERS

 Society of Young Nigerian Writers (SYNW) in collaboration with the International Human Rights Art Festival (IHRAF), USA hereby calls for entries in form of Poetry on the theme “Police Brutality, Assault and Battery”. The proposed anthology focuses exclusively on the theme of “Police Brutality, Assault and Battery in Nigeria” and only works relating to the theme will be accepted for the competition and for publication. Writers are free to write on their personal experience or those of others in the form poetry using any title of their choice.

Prizes to be won include:  First Prize: $100, Second Prize: $75, Third Prize: $50 and five honorable mentions. Submission is free and open to writers across the world. The deadline for submission is 15^th of November, 2020. Intending entrants should submit the following alongside their entries: Name, age, gender, location, phone number, school, permission to publish your work in one or two sentences, and a short bio of no more than 40 words should be included in the submission. Entries should be sent to endsarsnationalpoetrycontest@gmail.com and copy to societyofyoungnigerianwriters@gmail.com.

Entry must be type-written and sent in the body of the mail; not as an attachment. Entries sent as attachment will be automatically disqualified. Entry must be the original work of the entrant. Any indication of plagiarism leads to disqualification. The subject of the email should be ‘END SARS National Poetry Contest’.

For more information contact: Tom Block (International Human Rights Art Festival IHRAF) tom@ihraf.org or Wole Adedoyin (Society of Young Nigerian Writers - SYNW) – woleadedoyin@gmail.com.

 

 

Call for Submissions: END SARS National Poetry Competition

 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: END SARS NATIONAL POETRY COMPETITION

(Elegies in honor and memory of those who lost their lives during END SARS Protests)

SOCIETY OF YOUNG NIGERIAN WRITERS (SYNW)

In conjunction with

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ART FESTIVAL (IHRAF)

Presents

END SARS NATIONAL POETRY COMPETITION

(Elegies in honor and memory of those who lost their lives during END SARS Protests)

THEME: POLICE BRUTALITY, ASSAULT AND BATTERY

PRIZES TO BE WON

 First Prize: $100

 Second Prize: $75

 Third Prize: $50

OTHER BENEFITS

• Award of Certificates of Participation to all Entrants.
• Award of Certificates of Excellence to only the shortlisted entrants.
• Only shortlisted work(s) will be published in e-book format
• Automatic membership into the Society of Young Nigerian Writers (SYNW).

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

• Language Medium – English
• Genre – Poetry/Articles
• Theme – Police Brutality, Assault and Battery.
• Poems should be between the minimum of 20 lines and maximum of 40 lines.

·         Entrants should send the following information alongside their entries

i. Name  

ii. Age

iii. Gender  

iv. Location  

 v. Phone Number  

vi. Where you heard about the Call for entries  

vii. Short Profile about yourself.

viii. Permission to publish your poem/essay (in one or two paragraphs)

ix. Name of school or university if any

• A Sentence of not more than 50 words describing the poem.
• Permission to publish your work among the shortlisted entries.
• Title of your mail should be addressed as “END SARS National Poetry Competition”
• All entries must be submitted to: endsarsnationalpoetrycontest@gmail.com and also copy societyofyoungnigerianwriters@gmail.com.
• Deadline for Submission is 15^th of November, 2020.
• Any signs of plagiarism will disqualify the entrant.
• Organizer’s decision is final

For more information contact: Tom Block (International Human Rights Art Festival - IHRAF) tom@ihraf.org or Wole Adedoyin (Society of Young Nigerian Writers - SYNW) – woleadedoyin@gmail.com.