Year: 2020
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Prose Poetry
“The Love Agenda” — An Erotic Prose Poetry by Nice Mwaura and Allyna Kemmy
STUDENT’S POV Sometimes it feels like I have your image wrapped up in my mind. Or maybe we get the itch about the anger that breaks through what we are really feeling. Whash! More cane.…
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Musings
“New School” — A Poem by Chima Daniel
Welcome to my lecture hall,my lecture hall of affection.I’m Professor “Love made easy”.I promise to be the manto help you find your man.I’m not here to give you hopeor teach you how to copebut you’ll…
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Poetry
“Monsters You Made” — A Poem by Pendullum
You push us down repeatedly,Then walk all over us with glee.You disrespect us openly; playing on our intelligence like we have no clue.Thirty-six million has turned to snake food,When did reptiles swap meat for paper?And…
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Poetry
“Pick Your Worries” — A Poem by Epiphany
A cube of sugarmakes their cup of tea;wrinkled or ironed out flat,Naira notes must change hands. “In another life maybe,I could don cheap shadesand not have to look the part—and lose the sturdy vocabularies too.”…
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Musings
“Abiku: You Lived for This” — A Poem by Will Smith Obidi
You care for the mobThe things I’d do for love;Death by a thousand wordsYou’d take for this acceptance. Life is a man dancing to his death.My life is you dancing throughsteep hills of acceptance, navigatingthrough…
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Poetry
“Nigeria” — A Poem by Bianca Kate Orieku
Everywhere, cries and crisisHeads bow in submissionPoverty rears its ugly headCovid has left its mark. The fatal blow has left her strugglingFor breath which isn’t forthcomingHer people cry in agonyWatching helplessly as it shook her.…
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Musings
“It is Easy” — A Poem by Chima Daniel
Blame me, defame me, inflame me! It is easy to nail me, … nail me to my cross and your cross and their crosses… for the deeds of our cravings …deeds we hide and pride…
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Writing Contests
The Bergen International Essay Competition
The Bergen International Literary Festival for Non-Fiction and Fiction is held in February every year in the Norwegian city of Bergen and attracts writers from every continent. We are looking for new, excellent writing…
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Writing Contests
Dzanc Books Diverse Voices Prize
Established in 2020, the Dzanc Books Diverse Voices Prize seeks brilliant, daring, and imaginative book-length manuscripts of fiction or nonfiction by writers from minority, underrepresented, or marginalized communities. The winning submission will be awarded a…
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Writing Contests
FT’s Bracken Bower Prize 2020
With a £15,000 award, the competition aims to find the best proposal for a business book. Young would-be business authors have an opportunity to map a path out of the coronavirus crisis by entering book…
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Writing Contests
The Bodley Head/FT Essay Prize Competition 2020
Every year, the Financial Times and The Bodley Head, one of Britain’s leading publishers of non-fiction, team up to find the best young essay-writing talent from around the world. Now in its eighth year, The…
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Writing Contests
2020 Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing
Gulf Coast is now accepting entries for the 2020 Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing. The contest awards $3,000 and publication in Gulf Coast to the winner. Two runners up will be awarded $1,000…
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Writing Contests
The 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Commonwealth Countries
Application Deadline: 1st November, 2020 Offered annually? Yes Eligible Countries: Commonwealth countries (See below for list of countries) About the Award: The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short…
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Book Review
Book Review: ‘Freshwater’ by Akwaeke Emezi
BOOK: FRESHWATER AUTHOR: AKWAEKE EMEZI PUBLISHED IN 2018 {The edition I read was published in Nigeria by Kachifo limited under its Farafina imprint}. ISBN: 978-978-55597-1-2 LAYOUT AND COVER DESIGN: AKEEM IBRAHIM PAGES: 249 At times…
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