Call for Entries – June Writing Contest How would you write a letter to a mysterious character from your past, present, or future? For this edition, we’re looking for stories that address the mysterious; intriguing stories that can cut across any theme, written in epistolary form. But don’t get carried away with the relatively strict…
May 12th, 2022 – Chinonso Marymartin Okoabu | Creative Nonfiction Nothing shook the country greatly like the death of Deborah Samuel, a 200-level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto. It was not that she had succumbed to the cold hands of death as all mortals would someday, it was the gruesome way…
Let There Be Peace – Dera Udochukwu | Poetry A tale of thirty six brothers sandwiched side by side, Pitching tents from the grassy plains, sand dunes and beyond the ocean tides, Each tribe nestled in its mapped out niche, One man’s language is another man’s gibberish, Each clan laden with deposits of nature’s gifts,…
Call for Entries – May Writing Contest The world in general is in perilous times. With economies fast declining, political and religious unrest, educational and moral decadence plaguing societies, how can we find peace in the midst of all these? Entries should be creative nonfiction (personal essays, etc.), articles or poetry on the theme, “Peace…
Gone Before Easter | Dayo Ikotun He went missing during Lent. Like invisible fingers had reached out and snatched him. One minute he was there, laughing and running around the church with his clubbed feet. The next, he was gone. We searched everywhere. Underneath the pews. Behind the altar. The gate post’s toilet. Whether at…
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