World Poetry Day 2020: Young Poets Reiterate Call to Immortalize Achebe.
by Izunna Okafor As the world celebrated the World Poetry Day 2020, young writers in Anambra State, under the umbrella
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2020
The Toyin Falola Prize/ How to Submit (Payment: $1000 + more)
The Toyin Falola Prize is a new literary prize set up in honor the Nigerian historian and professor, Toyin Falola.
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Ebedi Review: Special Edition/ How to Submit (Payment: A Contributor’s Copy)
This year is the 10th year since the founding of the Ebedi International Writers’ Residency by Dr. Wale Okediran, former
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NLNG Prize for Prose/ How to Submit (Prize: $100, 000)
The NLNG Prize for Literature is currently accepting submissions for its 2020 prize. The prize, which is worth $100, 000
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Catapult Submissions Portal Is Open. Send Your Flash Essays / How to Submit (Payment: $200)
Catapult literary magazine is currently seeking submissions for flash essays. This call was announced recently after they stopped accepting submissions
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Down River Road Review/ How to Submit (Payment: $30 per piece)
Following the first issue, the Place issue, down river road has called for submissions for its second issue, the Ritual issue.
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The Nigerian Poet and Scholar, Professor Harry Garuba, Dies at 61.
Professor Harry Garuba died on the 28 February, 2020, in South Africa, “following a long illness”, according to Premium Times
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The Goi Peace Foundation International Essay Contest/ How to Apply (Prize: $1350 + more)
The Goi Peace Foundation calls for essays for its essay contest for 2020. The theme for the contest this year
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IWP Between the Lines/ How to Apply (Benefits: Travel + more)
The International Writing Program is an organization dedicated to promoting “mutual understanding by providing writers from every part of the
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Boston Review Contests 2020/ How to Apply (Payment: $1000 + more)
The Boston Review Contests began in 1996, and has always been awarded to a short story writer and a poet,
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