Poetry Club of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), Abeokuta calls for poetry submissions from established and upcoming poets in Nigeria/Africa. Poetry Club of MAPOLY believes man cannot not communicate, so hereby enjoined all established and upcoming poets to contribute to this first edition of E-Book of not more than fifty poems.
The proposed titled of the anthology is African Eyeball. There are no restricted subject matters or themes but submissions that address social and political issues in Nigeria/Africa may be given more consideration. Please, do not submit more than one poem and sexually explicit poems will not be accepted.
The E-Book will be published on the Society of Young Nigerian Writers’ blog (Society that celebrates young Nigerian creative writers www.societyofyoungnigerianwriters.wordpress.com) and Words Rhymes and Rhythm Poetry’s Blog (WRRPoetry, a community of poets, publishes 21 poems per week on www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry). The selected poems may be edited by Kukogho Iruesini Samson, an online reporter at Media Trust (Daily Trust Newspapers) and editor and curator or WRRPoetry
The E-Book aims to medium of showing the best of new Nigerian/African poetry. Your writing is not yet best without your audience view. You are then enjoined to communicate to the people through your poetry.
GUIDELINES:
- Do not submit more than one poem
- Poem must not exceed forty lines (brevity will also be considered)
- A short biographical note of less than fifty words should be sent in the body of the email
- Submission opens 20 May, 2013
- Deadline: 23 June, 2013
- Publication should be expected three months after from the closing date
- Submission is free
- Submission should be in the body of the mail
Questions/ submissions: pcmmapoly@ymail.com
Website: http://www.societyforyoungwriters.webs.com/
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