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<h5 class="wp-block-heading">Multiple award-winning writer Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto is the winner of the 7th edition of the by Words Rhymes &; Rhythm Publisher’s annual <em><a href="https://www.wrr.ng/news/eopp-2018/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize (EOPP) 2018 (opens in a new tab)">Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize (EOPP) 2018</a></em>.</h5>



<p>The <a href="https://www.wrr.ng/authorpedia/ezenwa-ohaeto-incenses-before-sleep-review-eopp/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="winning poem poem I BURN INCENSES BEFORE (opens in a new tab)">winning poem poem I BURN INCENSES BEFORE </a>SLEEP beat two hundred twenty-four other entries to the top prize. Coming closely behind the Imo-born poet is teenage poet Dipe Jolaade and University of Benin poet, Nome Emeka Patrick in 1st Runner-Up position and 2nd Runner-Up positions respectively.</p>



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the winning poem, EOPP 2019 co-judge Oyindamola Shoola said:</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>For me, in ‘I Burn Incenses before Sleep’, Ezenwa-Ohaeto reached a height of honesty, passion and vulnerability, one that flawlessly implements its didactics and has the power to affect people, things and systems that we hold on to religiously.</p><cite> — Oyindamola Shoola <a href="https://www.wrr.ng/authorpedia/ezenwa-ohaeto-incenses-before-sleep-review-eopp/">(A REVIEW OF EOPP 2018 WINNING POEM)</a></cite></blockquote>



<p>Ezenwa-Ohaeto will
take home a N25,000 cash prize while Dipe and Nome will get N15,000 and
N10,000. All three poets receive books by Eriata Oribhabor, certificates of
recognition and books by Eriata Oribhabor. In addition, the First Prize winner
will get an all-expense paid invitation to the PIN Food Poetry Contest award
dinner scheduled for 2019.</p>



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<p>All the poems that made <a href="https://www.wrr.ng/news/shortlist-eopp-2018/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="the top 20 shortlist of the EOPP 2018 (opens in a new tab)">the top 20 shortlist of the EOPP 2018</a> are published in a chapbook titled I BURN INCENSE BEFORE I SLEEP. Download your FREE copy below:</p>



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<p class="has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size">Ezenwa-Ohaeto’s long list of literary laurels include the Association of Nigerian Author’s Literary Award for Mazariyya Ana Teen Poetry Prize, 2009; Etisalat Prize for Literature, Flash fiction, 2014 (runner-up); Castello di Duino Poesia Prize (2018); New Hampshire Institute of Art’s 2018 Writing Award, and New Hampshire Institute of Art’s 2018 Scholarship to MFA in Writing Program. </p>



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<p class="has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size">Dipe Jola is a
teenage Nigerian writer and ardent lover of art and literature who enjoys
reading and writing poems. Jola’s writings have been featured in a numbers of
anthologies. According to her, darkness is light to hidden rainbows. She
lives in Lagos from where she writes.</p>



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<p class="has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size">Nome, Emeka
Patrick is a Nigerian writer studying English Language and Literature at the
University of Benin (UNIBEN), Nigeria. In 2018, he was awarded the 40th Festus
Iyayi Award for Excellence (Poetry). His works have been published or
forthcoming in Gaze journal, Beloit poetry journal, FLAPPER HOUSE, Crannóg
magazine, Mud Season Review, Barnhouse journal and elsewhere.</p>



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EZENWA-OHAETO, DIPE JOLAADE & NOME PATRICK WIN ERIATA ORIBHABOR POETRY PRIZE 2018
