200L Student of LASU College of Medicine, Jewo Oghenetega Wins $250 F. Sean Hodge Prize For Poetry
Jewo Oghenetega,20 year old Nigerian poet and a 200L Medical Student of Lagos State University College Of Medicine who won the Annual F. Sean Hodge Prize for Poetry In Medicine
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Lagos State University celebrates Jewo Oghenetega,20 year old Nigerian poet and a 200L Medical Student of Lagos State University College Of Medicine who won the Annual F. Sean Hodge Prize for Poetry In Medicine, myschoolnews gathered that $250 prize is awarded to winners in each of the two categories.
Apart from the prize money, Jewo's winning poem will be published in The Healing Muse, an annual journal of literary and visual art published by the SUNY Upstate Medical University.
Jewo Oghenetega, a student of the Lagos State University College Of Medicine has emerged winner of the F. Sean Hodge prize for poetry in medicine.
Jewo is a 20 year old Nigerian poet, creative writer, spoken word artist and a 3rd year undergraduate of medicine at the Lagos State University College Of Medicine.
He was winner of the Brigitte Poirson Poetry Contest (June-July 2022), winner of the Creative Naija #IAMNIGERIA contest, second place winner of the 2022 Albert Jungers Poetry Prize, and also second place winner of the 2022 Poetically Written Prose Contest awarded by the Poets In Nigeria initiative (PIN).
The F. Sean Hodge Prize For Poetry in Medicine came about after the untimely death of Sean Hodge, a graduate of SUNY Upstate Medical University who went on to establish a thriving otolaryngology practice. As a physician who loved the humanities, he read and wrote poetry, and played music as complements to a busy physician’s life.
In his honour, his family and the Center for Bioethics and Humanities established this poetry prize, to encourage physicians and physicians-in-training to write poetry as one way of reflecting on and communicating their experiences.
A $250 prize is awarded to winners in each of the two categories: Current medical students, residents, and fellows. Physicians who have completed post-graduate training.
Jewo Oghenetega being a beneficiary of this cash prize is a proof of his amazing skills and prowess, his ability to juggle his studies as a medical student and his passion as a poet and creative writer, and still come out on top.
