Labari Prize for Poetry 2024 | N200,000 Cash Prize

The Labari Prize for Poetry 2024 is currently open for submissions. Interested poets are invited to submit their best poems.

Labari Prize for Poetry 2024

The Labari Prize for Poetry 2024 is currently open for submissions. Interested poets are invited to submit their best poems.

About the Labari Prize for Poetry 2024

The Labari Prize for Poetry 2024 is organized by Arts and Vibes, a platform specifically dedicated to celebrating arts and culture in Nigeria.

According to the organizers, they are eager to read your submissions as they collect stories to add to our catalogue of northern Nigerian artistic brilliance.

Entry Fee 

Free.

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Submission Guidelines for Labari Prize for Poetry 2024

1. Send us a poem on the theme "MINDSCAPES OF THE NORTH"
2. Submissions must be original and unpublished
3. Submit your poems via email with the Subject "Labari Prize for Poetry 2024" in PDF or Word Document format.
4. Each poem should be typed, double-spaced, and include the title (but not the poet's name to ensure anonymity)
5. Submit your work to artsxvibes@gmail.com. Include your name, contact information, and a brief biography in the body of the email.

Deadline 

December 20, 2024

Prize for the Labari Prize for Poetry 2024

N200,000. The winner takes all.

Judges for the Labari Prize for Poetry 2024

Zaynab Iliasu Bobi is a Nigerian Hausa multidisciplinary artist, poet, and licensed Medical Laboratory Scientist from Bobi. She is the author of Cadaver of Red Roses (0, Miami Books) won the 2023 Derricotte/Eady Chapbook Prize, winner of the inaugural Folorunsho Editor's Poetry Prize 2023, Labari Poetry Prize 2023, the inaugural Akachi Chukwuemeka Prize for Literature 2023, and Gimba Suleiman Hassan Gimba ESQ Poetry Prize, 2022 and the first beneficiary of Carolyn Micklem Scholarship.

Abdulrazaq Salihu is a Nigerian poet and member of the hilltop creative arts foundation. He won the SOD poetry contest, BPKW poetry contest, Poetry archive poetry contest, Masks literary magazine poetry award, Nigerian prize for teen authors(poetry), Hilltop creative writing award, and others. He has received fellowship and residency from IWE writers residency, SPRING, Frances Thompson writers studio and elsewhere.

Moyosola Olowokure is a Nigerian poet, model, digital creator, and recording artiste whose work explores psychology, spirituality, and romance. Moyosola is known to draw unique parallels from biblical narratives to transport and uplift her listeners through her unique approach to Spiritual poetry.