03 July 2012

Call for Poems for Abuja: City of Unity (The Paradigm-City Publishing/ PEN Nigera)

Deadline: 31 August 2012

The Paradigm-City Publishing Ltd, Abuja, in collaboration with the global writers' body, PEN, Nigeria chapter, invites Nigerians and Non-Nigerians alike, poets and non-poets alike, to participate in the first phase of its City Poems Project, by contributing poems on their encounters with, and, experience of life in all its stratified and rich diversity, in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.

Each contributor is expected to send poems of not more than 2 (two) quarto pages (preferably the shorter the better), for the proposed anthology, titled, "ABUJA: CITY OF UNITY", to citypoemsproject@gmail.com, not later than August 31st 2012. The best poems selected will be published, while the best ten (10) poems will be honored specially at the public presentation of ABUJA: CITY OF UNITY, later this year.

Contributors are free to send poems on ANY aspect of life in this ever growing metropole. Each contributor is expected to include a resume of not more than five (5) lines. The author of each published entry is entitled to a copy of the book as honorarium.

The Editor of the City Poems Project is Mrs. Dayo Benjamin Laniyi , CEO, Doxa Digital, Abuja.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries/ submissions: citypoemsproject@gmail.com

Website: https://www.facebook.com/pennigeriacentre
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