Eboquills Annual Anthology Launch
We’re so excited to announce that Eboquills has launched an annual anthology. The submissions window opens today, 30th June 2023, and closes on 31st July 2023. For 2023, our anthology will be a curation of fine poetry- all forms of poetry. Theme: Our Girls: Their…
One Poem By Abdulbasit Oluwanishola
Abdulbasit Oluwanishola is a young Nigerian poet who writes from Ilorin, Kwara State. He’s studying Agriculture at Usmanu Dafodiyo University Sokoto. Portrait of a Broken Home Carry the night & you are lost. —AbdulRazaq Salihu The day your sister carried the shadow & darkness ripened…
One Poem By Raymond Favour
Raymond Favour is an 18-year-old from Ito, Ika Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Fighting Demons This smiling face camouflages a desert of grief- a heart bleeding from cuts engineered by scalpels clinging to the hand of people I tag loved ones. You see,…
‘Constellations’ gave me the power to arrange my own stars” – Abdulrazaq Salihu
In recognition of the finest and latest African authors from around the world, 10Q is Eboquills’ special feature series dedicated to appreciating the hard work of authors. Today, we speak with Abdulrazaq Salihu, author and Poetry Reader (intern) at Eboquills. He talks to our editors…
One Poem By Chinemerem Prince Nwankwo
Chinemerem Prince Nwankwo is currently an undergraduate of History and International Studies, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria. He loves to read and write about Africa, women, and children. Imprints of Scars and Broken Pieces as Sore Memories I painted the future eased of memories and…
One Poem By Joemario Umana
Joemario Umana is a creative writer and poet, whose poem “an iroko tree with fiery beards” is forthcoming in the anthology publication of NSPP 2022. Tears is not a Metaphor for Weakness The sleepy lantern trying to stay awake and the crickets with the frogs…
Two Poems By Abiodun Salako
Abiodun Salako (he/him) is a Nigerian Journalist, Copywriter, and Resident- at-Sea. In his spare time, he daydreams of Eden. Weekdays At The Home of Our Bones It’s just me and you, drinking milk like adolescence, frothing at the mouth with snacks, and using our faces…
Two Poems by Ahmed Aisha
Ahmed Aisha is is a Nigerian poet, a computer science student at Oscotech, and an Auditor of the Association of Nigerian Authors, Osun State chapter. Program To Calculate My Grief Using C+ Language Question: Calculate your grief using C+ language. /*a program to calculate my…
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…
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