Nigerian Undergraduates Students Poetry Prize (NSPP), Nigeria for Bachelor

Eligibility Criteria

• Open to all Nigerian undergraduates studying in Nigeria and the diaspora.
• Entrants must be from a recognized tertiary institution.

Offered Benefits

Aside from rewarding the prize winners with a total cash prize of ?500,000, exceptional entrants will each receive a certificate of excellence and a complimentary copy of the NSPP anthology which features their works.

• 1st Prize – ?200,000
• 2nd Prize – ?150,000
• 3rd Prize – ?75,000
• Consolation Prize – ?25,000 each for 4th, 5thand 6th best entrants

Application Process

For inquiries, contact the moderator – Phone: +2348130900109; Email: 

• Submissions are to be made at  http://nspp.poetsinnigeria.org.ng, with strict adherence to the instructions thereon.
• Entrants should write on any theme of their choice while considering its topicality.
• Under no condition will the judges’ unanimous decisions be challenged.
• Entering for the contest gives PIN the automatic right to make use of entries as deemed appropriate.
• Entries must be written in English. Native terminologies must be translated into English as footnotes.
• Entrants should subscribe

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• Entrants must give unique titles to their works.
• Indicate the theme selected beneath your work.
• Poems must be the original intellectual property of the entrants.
• An entrant is entitled to a single entry of 30 lines maximum.
• Entries submitted must be previously unpublished. A submission discovered to have defaulted on this rule will be automatically voided.
• All entrants are expected to purchase a minimum of one of the six NSPP anthologies uploaded on the submission portal.