One Poem by Okoro Emmanuel Chukwuebuka
Okoro Emmanuel Chukwuebuka is a creative writer and a passionate volunteer. He won the 2019 edition of Korea-Nigeria Poetry Prize (Junior Category). Replicating Dead Figures I’ve watched father light up a match stick__ and paint his world with darkness. His dead lips, rumpled shirt, teary…
Two Poems By Alobu Emmanuel
Alobu Emmanuel alias Noble Alobu, believes nature holds a great deal of magic. His pieces & poems are featured/forthcoming in “agape review”, “nantygreens”, “celestite poetry”, and elsewhere. SongFlower. —for Victoria. When you sing, the Nightingale listens in a bid to steal your tunes. Songbirds flutter…
Writing Prizes and Contests to Enter This April
If you have been on the lookout for contests and prizes to enter this April. You should take a look at this list of opportunities closing on or before the 30th of April 2023. BLURRED GENRE FLASH CONTEST 2023 Theme: Levity The world around us…
One Poem By Eliongema Udofia
Eliongema Udofia is a 17-year-old poet from Ika in Awka Ibom State, Nigeria. When he is not writing, he is drawing and listening to music or solving mathematical problems. Requiem To Drowning Voices This morning, my room is a coffin holding souvenirs The novel I…
The Big House: A Short Story By Nwabuisi Kenneth
Nwabuisi Kenneth is a voracious reader and writer. He holds a degree in English and Literary Studies from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where lives, reads, and writes fiction. The Big House Before the car horn sounded. Before he called to tell you he couldn’t…
Bentex Torlafia Speaks on Writing and Publishing His Latest Book- “Love, Death, Echoes & Ripples”
10Q showcases the finest and latest African authors from around the world. It is our way of recognizing and appreciating the hard work of authors. Today, we speak with Bentex Torlafia, author and founder of NASARA CREATIVE. He talks to our editors about his newly…
ÀLÀKÉ By Dayò Ayílárá
Dayò Ayílárá is a lawyer, business consultant, cartoonist, content writer, graphics designer and calligrapher. ÀLÀKÉ À-l-à-k-é, when I first gulped the litres of your beauty through the funnel of my eyes i knew I was under fire, your petrol tanker has set my wool heart…
One Poem By Arikewusola Abdul Awal
Arikewusola Abdul Awal hails from Shaki, Oyo state. His poems have appeared on ilamagazine.net, williwashpress.com. Teen Lit journals, and elsewhere. Paper Bird (To Father) Tell me, Is this the beginning of another end? Every morning I see your bloodshot eyes aiming at the lekeleke birds…
One Poem by Liberian Poet, Azaiouris Y Zeon
Azaiouris Y Zeon is a young Liberian poet. His work has been published/forthcoming in Eboquills, ArtLounge, Ngiga Review, SpillWords & elsewhere. half moon for abunic you’re in my eyes again the way the sky pours rain upon the roof of my house. i read your…
Two Poems By Blessing Omezia Ojo
Blessing Omeiza Ojo is a Nigerian poet, author, and creative writing teacher living in Abuja, Nigeria. He is a proud member of Hill-Top Creative Arts Foundation. Ode to the Hungry Earth At another gravestone of a boy who misted into memory, I stopped to count…
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