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Starting Your Own Online Literary Magazine: A Guide To Launching A Lit Mag
Have you always dreamed of running your own literature magazine? Maybe it’s something that you’ve never really intended to do, but you’ve spotted a gap in the market. And you’ve, at some point, wondered how to start a literary magazine. If you’ve decided that it’s something that you want to do, you need to start […]
5 Points To Tick Before Writing Your SOP For International Universities
If you are looking for an admission in a foreign educational institution, there are certain points you need to before you writing your SOP for international universities. An SOP plays a crucial role while applying for any program and to any university. To make your application stick out, you must make sure to keep all […]
Recommended Short Stories You Can Read Online, by: Oyet Sisto Ocen, Harriet Anena, and Uwem Akpan.
The best short story writers do something to you just after you read that last paragraph: they leave a kind of quiet inside you. Or is it peace? It is different things for different people, but I know that after reading a good story, something happens to you on the inside that you just can’t […]
Serendipity And Chika Unigwe’s Lecture At The Center Of Memories. I Learned About The Importance Of Owning and Controlling Our Own Narratives.
This is how I learned the importance of controlling our own narratives, which was the central theme of a lecture by Chika Unigwe. Some writers rely on serendipity to lead them to a writer they have long admired or an idea they have been trying to explore. I am not such a writer. I am […]
Recommended Short Stories You Can Read Online. This Edition Features Stories by Simbiat Haroun, Adams Adeosun, and Chidiebube onye Okohia
Some short stories make you cry, others make you gasp. But there are some that just show you something and that’s all they do. This week’s recommended stories include stories by Simbiat Haroun, an alumnus of the 2018 Purple Hibiscus Creative Writing Trust, Adams Adeosun whose “Beloved” (published in “Limbe to Lagos”) is so achingly […]
The Lagos Poetry Festival 2019, 5th Edition
The Lagos International Poetry Festival (LIPFest2019) is here. Now in its fifth year, the festival, which was founded in 2015 by Efe Paul Azino, promises to be “a wild beautiful thing.” The festival begins October 30th, 2019 and ends November 3rd, 2019, and it features over fifty writers and poets and thinkers from over ten […]
Press Release: The SBMEN Fiction and Non-Fiction Editing Workshop
SBMEN Fiction and Non-Fiction Editing Workshop Lagos, September 2019— The Society of Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN) held its third editing workshop for the year themed: The Fundamentals of Fiction and Non-Fiction Editing from 21 to 22 September 2019. This two-day workshop was attended by writers and editors who were interested in refreshing […]