​PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
The Sprinng Literary Movement Mentorship Programme is an intensive 3-weeks online programme. 

This programme is for developing writers with great potential and willingness to learn. It is strictly for Nigerian writers between the ages of 16-25 who reside in Nigeria, and who have not published a book. In January 2018, 9 writers were selected to be mentees in the programme and in August 2018, only 15 writers will be selected for this programme.

This programme focuses on 4 genres: Poetry, Fiction, Essays, and Book Review. During the 3-weeks, mentees will be in contact with their mentors, sending them their works and getting reviews, tips, and commentaries. Mentors and mentees will aim to work on at least 3 works (poems/short stories/essays/book reviews) per week. The medium of communication between the mentors and their writers throughout this program will be via email, phone calls, and messages.

Prize: N25,000 Cash and N10,000 gift card to shop at Roving Heights
(Only one winner will be selected)

Prompt: Write a simple poem on any theme of your choice between 5-10 lines

How To Submit
All inquiries and submissions must be sent to sprinngliterarymovement@aol.com
The subject of your submission via email must be “SLM 2018 Poetry Contest: Your Full Name”

Eligibility:
Only Nigerian writers living in Nigeria are eligible for this contest

Contest opens on May 30 and ends on August 1
All updates and additional announcements will be posted on the website: www.sprinng.org

​How to win?
Read the current publications on the SLM website for July 1-31, 2018.Write a comment on 2 or more of the publications posted on the SLM website for July 1-31, 2018.
Please add your name and email address when filling the comment box. Note: Email address will not be made public.

See the guide to providing good feedback below

TIPS FOR WRITING GOOD FEEDBACK
The goal of providing feedback is;
1. to invite another reader into the world of beauty you have seen in a work
2. to provide a very brief summary of what you read. 
3. to give your interpretation/perspective of what has been written.
4. to provide suggestions for improvement.

We encourage that your comment meets at least 2 of these goals.
The SLM team will evaluate the comments and select the winner of the book at the end of the month.

Note: Comment on the poems, book review, interview, and guest posts.

You’re the rose caught between wooden thorns,
You will bloom my darling but not for long.
If I leave you be, then you choke and be left forlorn.
So I’ll pick and hold you in the warmth of my palms.
 
You’re the morning, caught between thoughts that the night would come,
You will shine my darling, but not for long.
By your side will I be, for when darkness comes you shall be gone,
So I’d lie awake in your light, and I would love with all my might.

In our war
I am but a burning postcard
Waiting on the whistlings of home
To bring my ash and scent to you
But if flags are not raised before dawn
You'll find specks of me
In the corners of your mouth
Warmer than summer memories in January.
 
Tega Ohwerhoye hails from Delta State, Nigeria. He holds an M.A (International Relations) from Coventry University (UK); and a B.A (English [Literature Emphasis]) from Redeemers University (RUN), Nigeria where he served as the department’s Public Relations Officer (2011-2012). He currently works as an Administrative Officer in a Housing Firm. He has worked with the Debt Management Office (DMO); National Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) and BMG Research, Birmingham, UK as a Market Research Agent. He taught Literature-in-English at Darlington Crest College, Abuja, Nigeria and is also a member of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Network. He loves music and paintings.

Time, they say, 
is the greatest healer of wound.
But when time goes pale,
Hope will be the one to be called upon.
Mother, 
Your words were the pill of hope 
That I swallowed to heal my wounded heart 
When time became bedridden.

The Sprinng Literary Movement team is currently working to build the first online database for writers who are willing to be a part of it. This database will have the biography, blog, and social media accounts of many Nigerian Writers. The database is expected to launch on the 1st of January, 2019. If you are a Nigerian Writer and you will like to be part of this opportunity, click on the link below to fill and fill the form as required.