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Guidelines: SavannaPoets Online Open Mic August 2025 Edition

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Welcome to the SavannaPoets Online Open Mic (#SpoomCompetition)! This is a monthly virtual poetry reading competition, and we're thrilled to have you join us for the August Edition. How to Submit Your Entry To participate, record your poetry reading video and upload your submission here   (link is disabled at 11:59pm on August 20th, 2025) . Alternatively, you can email your entry directly to us at savannapoets@gmail.com. Please include the following in the body of your email: Your Name Title of Poem The Poem (the text) Description (if any) Entries will be uploaded on a first-come, first-served basis and featured on our YouTube channel. You have until August 20th, 2025 to submit your entry. Prizes and Winners The entry with the highest number of views by 7:00 PM on August 30th will win the grand prize of 200,000 Naira , with the first runner-up receiving 100,000 Naira . Important Guidelines Age Requirement: Submissions are only accepted from individuals who are 16 years of age...

Copyright Guidelines

  To ensure your poetry video can be successfully uploaded to the Savanna Poets YouTube channel, all submissions must comply with YouTube's copyright policies. Videos that fail these checks cannot be published. What is Copyright? Copyright protects original creative works like music, images, and video. As the creator, you own the copyright and control its use. Your Responsibility You should only upload content that you personally created or have explicit permission/license to use. This means: Original Content is Best: Create all audio, visuals, and text yourself. No Unauthorized Music: Do not include background music, sound effects, or song lyrics in your video unless you: Composed and recorded the music yourself. Have obtained a direct license from the copyright owner(s) (e.g., the composer, the record label, the publisher). Are using royalty-free music from a reputable source that explicitly grants permission for YouTube use (like the YouTube Audio Library ). No Unauthorized ...

Guidelines: SavannaPoets Online Open Mic June 2025 Edition

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Welcome to the June Edition of SavannaPoets Online Open Mic (#SpoomCompetition), a monthly virtual poetry reading competition. For submissions, record your poetry reading video and upload your submission here . Alternatively you can email your entry directly to us at savannapoets@gmail.com. Please indicate the following in the body of the email: Your Name Title of Poem The Poem (the text) Description (if any) Entries will be uploaded on a first-come, first-served basis and featured on our YouTube channel . You will have until June 17th 2025 to submit your entry. The entry with the highest number of views by 7:00 pm on June 27th will win the grand prize of 200,000 Naira, with the first runner-up receiving 100,000 Naira. Theme: All themes and genres are welcome. Entries' Deadline: 7 pm, June 17th, 2025 Video Guide: Creativity: By all means, be creative; break all the boundaries (you can even make your submission an animation video!). Editing: You can make your video...

Guidelines: SavannaPoets Online Open Mic June 2020 Edition

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Welcome to the June Edition of SavannaPoet Online Open Mic (#SpoomCompetition) a monthly virtual poetry reading competition. For submissions, record your poetry reading video, upload on your Instagram page and tag us @savannapoets with the hashtag #SpoomCompetition. Alternatively, you can email your entry to us directly at savannapoets@gmail.com (or share your drive link with us). Please indicate the following in the body of the email: Your Name  Title of Poem   The Poem (the text) and Description (if any). We will pick on a first-come-first-serve basis and post poems on our YouTube channel. The entry with the highest number of views on our YouTube channel by 7 pm on the 25th of June wins the cash prize of 20, 000 Naira.  Theme: All themes and genres are welcome. Entries' deadline: 7 pm, 20th June 2020 Video Guide: Creativity By all means, be creative; break all the boundaries (you can...

...and the WINNER is

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It is a delight to announce the completion of SavannaPoets Online Open Mic-May 2020 Edition...and the WINNER is Adenowo Oluwapelumi with her poem  Be a Life Saver . We had a total of 49 entries, conclusively, Be a Life Saver had the highest number of views standing at 8078 views by 25th May. Worthy of mention are the runners-up, the due of Daniel Ajayi and Adedayo Ademokoya with their collabo poem  Hope for a Life  racking up a total 5761 views. In the near future, we shall be having prizes for runners-up. It has been fun all the way, we are grateful to all participants and supporters so far. Let's do it again! We appreciate all contestants and wish you all good luck in the coming edition in June. Stay creative. Thank you, The SavannaPoets Team

How To Get Featured on SavannaPoets

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To get featured on our platforms share your poetry with us via savannapoets@gmail.com We accept: Banners in square shape preferably 800px by 800 px  Videos, landscapes videos only  Texts in word document and not more than 25 lines. You can design your own banners or visit https://bit.ly/SavannaPoetsBanner paste your poem, download the banner and send to us via email. Kindly indicate your name, title of poem and social media handle(s) in the body of the mail so that we can tag you when we post across our platforms on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Stay creative.

How to Post 1-Minute+ Videos on Instagram

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