Call for Entries: Joe Ushie Poetry Prize 2026 ($500 prize) – YOA

Deadline: July 31, 2025

Applications are invited for the Joe Ushie Poetry Prize 2026. The Joe Ushie Poetry Prize is a literary award established to honor the legacy of Professor Joseph Akawu Ushie – a distinguished poet, literary scholar and seasoned educator within the Department of English, University of Uyo, Nigeria.

The Prize celebrates excellence in poetry and encourages rising and established poets to share their voices, whereas fostering a vibrant literary neighborhood. The Prize is an initiative of the Joe Ushie Literature Foundation, and it confers a money award on the creator of one of the best submitted poem in a given yr.

Prize

• The Prize cash is $500 (USD).

Eligibility

• Entrants have to be no less than 18 years outdated on the time of submission.
• Entrants have to be Nigerian residents and should submit proof of citizenship within the type of their worldwide passport information web page or their nationwide identification card, together with their entry.
• Entries have to be authentic unpublished work not plagiarised or AI generated; poetry beforehand broadcast on-line is taken into account revealed.
• Each entry should not exceed fifty (50) strains, and a most of three poems is allowed per entrant.
• Family members and shut mates of the organisers and judges are usually not allowed to enter.

Application

• Entries have to be obtained by the deadline; any entry obtained after the deadline can be routinely disqualified. The deadline is 11:59 p.m. GMT on 31 July 2025.
• Entries are to be despatched as electronic mail attachments, together with proof of Nigerian citizenship, to [email protected]
• The topic line of the submission electronic mail ought to learn as follows: [NAME OF ENTRANT]’S ENTRY FOR THE 2026 JOE USHIE POETRY PRIZE

For extra data, go to Joe Ushie Poetry Prize.