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My life began with a skeleton with a smile and bubbling eyes in my garden of dandelions. Everything else fell off the edge, a jigsaw puzzle piece cut in half. When young, I pressed against my mother’s breast, but youthful memories fell... Read More
click here for previous episodes February 5th, 2015. “Farida, what was that for?” Emem was yelling at Farida, who had walked up to Jerry and slapped him on both sides of the cheek. “That’s for not knowing how or when to just give... Read More
Catch up on previous chapters HERE Solomon always got her depressed. And it wasn’t for the fact that he extorted her. Seeing him alone made her miserable and this time was no different. He had turned her entire day into gloom and left her with... Read More
Dear Diary, It’s October 8, 2038 today, the anniversary of the day we had our first hope and taste of true freedom, that unblemished independence. We call it the New Independence Era. We’ve started including it in our government and... Read More
Obumneme walks into the cyber cafe and realises it will take a long time before they attend to him. He stops, glances at the computers sitting on the dilapidated long rickety table. The boys tap on the keyboard, their gaze fixates keenly on the... Read More
American poet Louise Glück has been declared the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature in a statement made by the Swedish Academy on Thursday. Louise Glück is the 16th woman to become a Nobel Laureate in Literature, since it was first awarded... Read More
Dzanc Books Diverse Voices Prize is a literary prize organized by Dzanc Books. The prize is designed to be awarded to a writer of a full-length manuscript. It is open to writers from minority, underrepresented, or marginalized communities. The prize... Read More
Submissions for the third annual Aspen Words Literary Prize are open for book-length works of fiction published in the 2020 calendar year. The $35,000 literary prize is for an “influential work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue... Read More
Bernardine Evaristo has made history as the first female writer of colour to top the UK fiction paperback chart. This is not the first time she is making history as she became the first black woman to win the Booker Prize in 2019 for her acclaimed... Read More