Below is the longlist for the 1st Quarter of The Wakaso Poetry Prize, 2024:

Testimony Odey- A Girl Is Laraba

Favour Orlando- Let The Seedling Grow

Pacella Chukwuma- Eke- Omni- Motherhood In View

Sa’Ada Isa Yahaya- How To Identify A Girl

Oyeleye Mahmoodah- Fashioning Poetry Out Of Soulful Girls

Na’allah Beauty Phoebe- A Girl Is A Girl, No More And No Less

Marvelous Ayotunde- A Girl Is A Girl

Igbokwe Roseline- Girl. Wonder. Beauty.

Owoeye Taiwo Bisola- She Who Lives

Ene Divine- Why not?

A total of 75 entries were recorded. Submission entries came in from Nigeria( with 66 entries,) Kenya( with one entry,) Ghana( with 6 entries,) and Uganda( with 2 entries.) A total of 5 entries were disqualified.

Chief Judge: Saddiq Dzukogi, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Mississippi State University, US.