2019 Winner of the SprinNG Poetry Contest

The winner of the annual SprinNG Literary Movement Poetry Contest (2019) is Adediran Adetutu, who will be receiving Prizes, including an N25,000 cash prize and an N10,000 gift card to shop at Roving Heights Bookstore. 


Adetutu Adediran is a lover of poetry and everything art. She's a joint winner of the PIN 10 Days poetry challenge and the Sprinng Literary Movement 2019 Poetry Writing Contest. She resides in Ile Ife. 

Read the Winning Poem below.

This is How We Disappear by Adediran Adetutu
This is how we disappear,
word by word,
line by line,
a sigh for a word,
till we become third-person pronouns in our stories.

This is how we fade away,
when we lend ourselves to be
spoken in another man's language.

Congratulations Adediran Adetutu!

Adediran Adetutu

2019 Winner

Sprinng

Established in 2016 by Oyindamola Shoola and Kanyinsola Olorunnisola, Sprinng fosters a thriving network that empowers diverse African writers, amplifies their voices, and celebrates their literature.

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