Festival Poetry Calabar

31/12/2025

09/11/2024

LABAF 26.0 : THE SOYINKA YEAR

The Soyinka Year is everything to us at PIN and an opportunity to speak to that stubborn thing called Hope. The anthology: "Decades of Nine Hills and Thrills" addresses the theme of courage, hope and uncommon steadfastness exemplified by the Soyinka personality. After a formal presentation of the mentioned book, featured poets will have the opportunity to read their poems.

Date: 12th November 2024
Venue: Freedom Park Lagos Island, Lagos
Time: 5pm.

You are cordially invited.

Eriata Oribhabor
For: PIN Initiative

15/08/2024

Upon receiving the Prof Wole Soyinka Youth Leadership & Innovation Award, Blessed Chinatu Orji was hosted in Lagos in felicitation with her and Poets in Nigeria Initiative where she serves as the Assistant Secretary.

15/06/2024

CCPC 2024: ONGOING HOSTS' SIGN UP

CCPC stands for Cross Country Poetry Celebration, an initiative of Poets in Nigeria that headlines poets during a simultaneous reading and performance of poetry across the country. This edition, is scheduled to hold on Saturday 26th October, 2024. It promises to be bigger and more impactful.

So far, we have hosts in the following 18 states; Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kaduna, Oyo, Bauchi, Taraba, Lagos, Sokoto, Nasarawa, Akwa Ibom, Plateau, Anambra, Ekiti, Jigawa, Niger, Osun and Benue. You can be part of this.

To host the CCPC, please click this link: https://bit.ly/Host-CCPC.

Please, feel free to ask questions on the way forward.

Eriata Oribhabor
For: PIN Initiative

To promote poets and poetry, Poets in Nigeria Initiative (PIN) is calling on all interested poets/literary minds across Nigeria and beyond to join our team in hosting a poetry event in diverse locations tagged Cross-Country Poetry Celebration. The theme for this edition is: Power and Pleasure of Poe...

18/04/2024

POETS IN NIGERIA INITIATIVE TO CELEBRATE PROF. WOLE SOYINKA@90

(A call for submission of poems for an anthology of carefully crafted poems in honor of the global literary Icon)

Poets In Nigeria Initiative is inviting poets across the globe to send in carefully crafted poems to be featured in an anthology titled: *Decades of Nine Hills and Thrills (Poems in honour of Prof. Wole Soyinka @90).

*THEMED - "The gift of grey wits and socio-cultural strength", this literary offering celebrates Prof. Wole Soyinka's decades of multidimensional conscientisation of people for socio-cultural development globally.

*A brief on our Literary Icon:*
Akínwándé Olúwọlé Babátúndé Ṣóyíinká; born 13 July 1934, known as Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, cultural icon, and essayist in the English language. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "wide cultural perspective and poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence", the first sub-Saharan African to be honoured in that category.

*SUBMISSION GUIDELINES*

* Poems should reflect the thematic thrusts bordering on the Icon's overall lifestyle encompassed in the stated theme.

*Poems should not exceed 35 lines.

* Each entrant is entitled to a poem Only.

*The title of this call must not be used as the title of the entry.

* Entries must be the original intellectual property of the entrants (never previously published in any form).

*Entries should be submitted in the body of the mail to:* [email protected]

• Attached emails would be overlooked

•Exceptional entries will have slots for physical performance at celebratory events in honor of Prof. Wole Soyinka.

*Submission Deadline:* 20th April - 20th May, 2024.

Shola Phebian Oguntoyinbo Adekunle
For: POETS IN NIGERIA INITIATIVE