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World Poetry Day 2020: Young Poets Reiterate Call to Immortalize Achebe.

Mar 26, 2020 Ernest Ogunyemi 0 Comments

by Izunna Okafor As the world celebrated the World Poetry Day 2020, young writers in Anambra State, under the umbrella

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The Nigerian Poet and Scholar, Professor Harry Garuba, Dies at 61.

Mar 17, 2020Mar 21, 2020 Ernest Ogunyemi 0 Comments

Professor Harry Garuba died on the 28 February, 2020, in South Africa, “following a long illness”, according to Premium Times

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Recommended Short Stories You Can Read Online, by: Oyet Sisto Ocen, Harriet Anena, and Uwem Akpan.

Feb 6, 2020Mar 21, 2020 Ernest Ogunyemi 0 Comments Adda, Harriet Anena, My Parents' Bedroom, Oyet Sisto Ocen, short stories, Suubi, The New Yorker, Uwem Akpan

The best short story writers do something to you just after you read that last paragraph: they leave a kind

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Looking Back Through a Misty Film: Recollection from the 2019 Purple Hibiscus Creative Writing Workshop

Jan 17, 2020Mar 21, 2020 Ernest Ogunyemi 0 Comments Bura-Bari Nwilo, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus Creative Writing Trust 2019, The Colour of a Thing Beloved

by Bura-Bari Nwilo In December 2019, I stood over Oly in my apartment in Nsukka and drew her attention to posts

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The Nigerian Novelist, author of “The Naked Gods”, Chukwuemeka Ike Passes on at 88.

Jan 17, 2020Mar 21, 2020 Ernest Ogunyemi 0 Comments Chukwuemeka Ike, Chukwuemeka Ike death, Expo '77, The Naked Gods

After a brief illness, on the 9th of January, the novelist Chukwuemeka Ike died Nnamdi Azikiwe Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, where

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New Awesome Book Alert: Colours of Hatred by Obinna Udenwe (Now Available For Pre-order).

Dec 17, 2019Mar 21, 2020 Ernest Ogunyemi 0 Comments Colours of Hatred, Obinna Udenwe, Parresia Publishers, Satans & Shaitans

From the author of the controversial church erotica, Holy Sex, and the conspiracy thriller, Satans & Shaitans, comes the new

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2019 Featured Lit Scene Meet Other Writers NEW RELEASES What's New 

New Awesome Book Alert: Ẹ̀fọ́ Rírò and Other Stories by Iquo Dianaabasi (Available For Pre-order).

Dec 10, 2019Mar 21, 2020 Ernest Ogunyemi 0 Comments books to pre-order, Ẹ̀fọ́ Rírò and Other Stories, Iquo Diannabasi, new books, Parresia Publishers

From Parrésia Publishers—the publishers of T. J. Benson’s We Won’t Fade into Darkness, and Onyeka Nwelue’s The Beginning of Everything

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Modifying Your Sahara: A Poetry Masterclass with Kaveh Akbar.

Nov 29, 2019Mar 21, 2020 Ernest Ogunyemi 0 Comments Ernest O. Ogunyemi, I.S. Jones, Kaveh Akbar, Lagos International Poetry Festival, Learn how poetry works, Logan February, Modifying Your Sahara, Pamilerin Jacobs, Wale Ayinla

It’s 1:49pm. I’m in a mini-bus going to Ikoyi from CMS, trapped in a hold-up. I’m sweating underneath my shirt,

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Publication of “Arrows of Words”, an Anthology in Honor of the late Prof. Chinua Achebe.

Nov 19, 2019Mar 21, 2020 Ernest Ogunyemi 0 Comments a new anthology of writings in honor of Chinua Achebe, Arrow of words, Chinua Achebe, Izunna Okafor, Okeke Chika Jerry

It was a moment of jubilation as writers and literary enthusiasts from different parts of the country converged in Akwa,

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Recommended Short Stories You Can Read Online. This Edition Features Stories by Simbiat Haroun, Adams Adeosun, and Chidiebube onye Okohia

Nov 18, 2019Mar 21, 2020 Ernest Ogunyemi 0 Comments Adam's Adeosun, beautiful short stories by African writers, Chidiebube onye Okohia, COUNTERCLOCK Journal Issue 7, Omenana, Simbiat Haroun, The Offing

Some short stories make you cry, others make you gasp. But there are some that just show you something and

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