Ogugua Micah Okoye, Okpara Ugochukwu Damian and Ehi-Kowochio Ogwiji are the winners of the fourth edition of the Nigerian Students Poetry Prize, NSPP 2019.

All Nigerian poets are invited to enter their poems for the June 2019 edition of the monthly BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC) themed: ‘VISION 2050’. If you could speak to your 2050 self right now, what would you say? What would it say to you? How different would the world...

Ifeanyichukwu Peter Eze is the winner of the May 2019 edition of the monthly Brigitte Poirson Poetry Contest (BPPC) for young writers which was themed ‘EXPRESS YOUR RAGE’. Eze is a Nigerian writer whose works have appeared on: Pangolin Review, Scarlet Leaf Review, Expound, Brittle Paper, The Single Story Foundation...

The Benue Book and Arts Festival (BBAF) is scheduled to take place in Makurdi the capital city of Benue State in Nigeria from 20th to 22nd June, 2019. It is being organised by SEVHAGE Literary & Development Initiative and SEVHAGE Publishers

All (Nigerian) poets are invited to enter their poems for the May 2019 edition of the monthly BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST themed: '‘EXPRESS YOUR RAGE (IN POETIC VERSE)’.

Poet, essayist and story-teller Efe-khaese Rinse Desmond has won the April 2019 edition of the monthly Brigitte Poirson Poetry Contest (BPPC) which was themed ‘HUMAN HERITAGE – THE COMMONWEALTH OF HUMANITY’.  Efe-khaese Rinse Desmond is a young Nigerian writer passionate about animal and societal welfare and the value of true...

Short Story Day Africa has announced the 2019 theme of the annual SHORT STORY DAY AFRICA PRIZE. The theme is ‘disruption’ and the Prize welcomes short fiction of between 3000 and 5000 words “exploring disruption, especially but not limited to climate and environ[mental] disruption.” Submissions for the prize which has...

If you are a lover of poetry (and literature) like me, and want to have a great time with fellow Nigerian literary enthusiasts in 2019, I recommended these 7 events for you...

Enter your poem for the April 2019 edition of the monthly BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC) and win prizes. The theme is: 'HUMAN HERITAGE - THE COMMONWEALTH OF HUMANITY'.

Nigerian engineer-poet Otubelu Chinazom Chukwudi is the winner of the March edition of the monthly Brigitte Poirson Poetry Contest (BPPC) 2019.