Gallery of Sad Silhouettes | A poem by Godwin Oyewole

DepositPhotos Gallery of Sad Silhouettes We are translucent before the sun Our bodies dance in resilient cloth of late hours, beasts, men and kids encapsulate sober color of darkness in their fleshes. We are one with the sun when it walks away from the sky like weary farmers do from unyielding earth, and in the …

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: $3,500 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest

Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest is open for submission. Now in its 20th year, the contest seeks the best humor poems with the 1st prize being $2000 and a two-year gift certificate from Duotrope. The contest which opened in August, 2020 is seeking both published and unpublished work. There is no entry fee required when …

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Awakened Voices Issue #12

Awakened Voices seeks writers for its upcoming issue. The issue #12 to be published in June 2021 is centered around survival of sexual violence and healing. The issue will feature works in flash fiction, fiction, vignette, and graphic/visual work. Awakened Voices is a literary branch of Awakenings which helps survivors of sexual violence find peace …

Ola W. Halim Wins PIN Food Poetry Contest 2020

Image by Poets In Nigeria (PIN) Nigerian poet, Ola W. Halim has been announced as winner of the PIN Food Poetry Contest 2020 edition. Following the announcement of a shortlist of 10 entries last December, Poets in Nigeria announced the three winners whose entries emerged from a pool of 149 valid entries. The winners include: …

Call for Entries: Poetically Written Prose Contest 2020

Glass Door Initiative and Poets in Nigeria (PIN) are pleased to announce the call for submissions for the 4th edition of Poetically Written Prose. Initiated in 2017, the contest seeks to discover outstanding prose works exuding the aura of poetry. The contest is open to everyone in all parts of the world. Poets In Nigeria …

Namwali Serpell Announced as Recipient of The Windham Campbell Prize 2020.

Namwali Serpell 2015 Caine Prize winner, Namwali Serpell has been announced as the recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize 2020. Serpell who is also author of the novel The Old Drift was announced winner at a ceremony in London on Thursday 19th March, 2020, being the only winner of interest to watchers of the African literary …

Anne Giwa-Amu Continues Fight Against Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

UK based Nigerian-Welsh author, Anne Giwa-Amu has continued to fight Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for allegedly plagiarising her work with support from legendary writer, Chinua Achebe. Giwa-Amu whose claim was thrown out of court in February 2019 has continued to claim copyright infringement against Adichie as she claims that a substantial amount of original material found …