The Nigerian Poet and Scholar, Professor Harry Garuba, Dies at 61.
Professor Harry Garuba died on the 28 February, 2020, in South Africa, “following a long illness”, according to Premium Times
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Lit Scene
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
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Looking Back Through a Misty Film: Recollection from the 2019 Purple Hibiscus Creative Writing Workshop
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.
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).
From the author of the controversial church erotica, Holy Sex, and the conspiracy thriller, Satans & Shaitans, comes the new
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New Awesome Book Alert: Ẹ̀fọ́ Rírò and Other Stories by Iquo Dianaabasi (Available For Pre-order).
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.
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.
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
Some short stories make you cry, others make you gasp. But there are some that just show you something and
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