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Open mic on the last Saturday of every month. Seats from 2,000 naira.

Submissions

Send us your poems

We print chapbooks for new poets, two or three a year, and we read every submission.

How to submit

From your poems to a chapbook

  1. Choose twelve

    Twelve to twenty poems that belong together.

  2. Send them

    One file, your name and a few lines about you.

  3. We read

    Every submission, within three months.

  4. We print

    If it fits, a run of 150 copies and a launch night.

Submissions

What we look for

Poems that sound like the person who wrote them. Any form, any language spoken in Nigeria, with English alongside if you can.

We do not charge a reading fee.

Submit

Send your submission

Tell us your name, how many poems and a line about the collection. We will reply with where to send the file.

Sent to THE POETRY ROOM.