The editorial team of Cọ́n-scìò magazine includes JIDE BADMUS as Poetry Editor, EHI-KOWOCHIO OGWIJi as Features Editor, EUGENE YAKUBU as Fiction Editor, DAVID ISHAYA OSU as Art and Photography Editor with KUKOGHO IRUESIRI SAMSON as acting Editor-in-Chief.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ‘THE LOCKDOWN’ — CỌ́N-SCÌÒ MAGAZINE ISSUE 1, VOL 1, JAN 2021
We invite all lovers of art and literature to submit their original art for the inaugural edition of Cọ́n-scìò Magazine Issue 1/Volume 1, October 2020. The theme of this issue is ‘The Lockdown’.
A BOY IS NOT ALWAYS A BUTTERFLY & OUR MOTHERS ARE NOT ALL MOONS: WHAT IS HAPPENING TO NIGERIAN POETRY?
It is time for our poets to realize that a boy is not always a butterfly & our mothers are not all moons. Poetry is first an expression of self before anything. Be original.
UPDATED SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR WORDS RHYMES & RHYTHM CONTRIBUTORS
We wish to announce the following changes to our submission guidelines for contributors. Contributors who wish to feature their writing on the Words Rhymes & Rhythm Blog should submit their...
‘ODE TO MOTHERTONGUE’: NIGERIAN POETS DAZZLE POETRY LOVERS IN LOCAL DIALECTS FOR BPPC
‘Ode to Mother Tongue’ is a showdown of choruses of West African voices. In it, we read poets who appealed to the language of their hearts in the composition of their verses, in order to reach the audiences’ hearts. Indeed, the heart-of-the-matter in the edition’s theme ‘Mother Tongue’ is a matter of the heart.
OLOWO,UDE & ABAH WIN JUNE/JULY 2020 BPPC PRIZE
The winners of the June/July 2020 edition of the bi-monthly Brigitte Poirson Poetry Contest (BPPC) are Olowo Qudus Opeyemi, Ude Vivian Chidimma and Abah Abah Oyagaba. The edition was themed...
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST [AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2020] — ‘EXPRESS YOURSELF’
Words Rhymes & Rhythm Publishers is receiving entries for the August/September 2020 edition of the BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC). This edition has no theme restriction: you are invited to...
Say ‘Hello’ to AUTHORPEDIA – Assisted-Authorship Publishing
As a remote-servicing company, our digital assets have always been important, which is why we proudly unveil our brand-new interactive publishing website – AUTHORPEDIA.NET.
A POET’S PAST MUST ADRESS HIS PRESENT (an essay by Oludipe Oyin Samuel)
One finds a poet who sounds less like his environment or the rest of his remaining works. One finds a horde of clannish poets who have resumed trapping their styles in the net of the other. One finds a literary community that has forgotten to produce the spirit-immersed poetry, the kind that broadly establishes the contaminant emotive will; not the kind that breeds a hive of self-importance—tributes and odes to self—that which undermines the vicarious role of pathos.