The single-issue queer magazine, “Finding Home in Stories”, is now accepting submissions. Send your art, poetry, or personal stories to: queervoiceamp@gmail.com, before April 25th, to be featured in this upcoming issue. Help us raise awareness about the war on queer and trans youth by contributing your own experience to the community. And if you know someone… Read More ..read more

Applications are now open for the 776 Foundation Climate Fellowship 2024, a two-year program for youths who are ready to impact the world. The program was founded with the purpose of grooming young people who are ready to take on the future by providing solutions to problems embraced by the society and make the world… Read More ..read more

Below is the shortlist for the 1st Quarter of The Wakaso Poetry Prize, 2024: A total of 75 entries were recorded. Submission entries came in from Nigeria( with 66 entries,) Kenya( with one entry,) Ghana( with 6 entries,) and Uganda( with 2 entries.) A total of 5 entries were disqualified. Chief Judge: Saddiq Dzukogi, PhD,… Read More ..read more

Below is the longlist for the 1st Quarter of The Wakaso Poetry Prize, 2024: Testimony Odey- A Girl Is Laraba Favour Orlando- Let The Seedling Grow Pacella Chukwuma- Eke- Omni- Motherhood In View Sa’Ada Isa Yahaya- How To Identify A Girl Oyeleye Mahmoodah- Fashioning Poetry Out Of Soulful Girls Na’allah Beauty Phoebe- A Girl Is… Read More ..read more

THE JUDGESChinaecherem Obor is an Igbo writer and editor. His fiction was second runner-up for the University of Alabama’s Don F. Hendrie Jr Prize for Fiction. His nonfiction appeared in the Selves Afro Anthology of Creative Nonfiction and he is currently the Fiction Editor of Black Warrior Review at the University of Alabama where he… Read More ..read more

The Arts Lounge Magazine is an African- Nigerian Literary Magazine that publishes writers all over the world. We look forward to considering your art! We publish works on all genres of Literature, and have just one rule— no rules! Send in works written from the depth of your heart. We believe in the extraordinary aura… Read More ..read more

● Pacella: Good day, Chinecherem Enujioke. We are very grateful that you accepted this interview. It is no news that female writers have been breaking boundaries and suppression over the years, and we want to contribute to uplifting these great feats in the littlest of ways we can. That being said, we would love for you… Read More ..read more

The first edition of The Annual Bash Amuneni Prize for Performance Poetry, in partnership with Nasaracreative, TrueMyVoice, and Officalcureafrical is calling on spoken-word poets to submit their poetry videos interpreting the theme, “Poetry for Climate Change.” £300 worth of prizes would be given to the best amateur performance poetry videos. Participants are required to create… Read More ..read more

There’s a pattern to it. First, you feel the blood rushing in your veins. It runs a mile a minute, as if powered by a piston on overdrive. Then you feel a hold on your mind. It’s like a cord that constricts your airflow. You’ve come to recognise it as fear. It leaves you incapable of thinking of anything else. You also… Read More ..read more

for a crown/ i wear the false smile of a simile/ you’ll be tempted to call it bubbles/ but i pray you look again/ see the weight that stoops my shoulders like the sky shouldering the weight of all the stars/ o grief/ i’m learning to outgrow you/ which is why you find the shimmering earrings of metaphors dangling from my ears/ i… Read More ..read more