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When we invited writers for this Issue, submissions of any theme or genre were welcomed, but especially so for works that explore the concept of journeys through the lenses of travels and tours―what it means to travel, to seek out new places. To write a story or a poem or an essay, writes Garth Greenwell, is to make a claim about what we find beautiful, about what moves us, to reveal a vision of the world, which the writers in this Issue have done with their work.
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I’m pleased to say that it felt like home journeying to the birth of this book. Of course home is where the “art” is. This chapbook contains 20 poems scribed from the very core of my heart.
“Dancing With The Tides” sends a message or talks about the need to being in equilibrium with the happenings in the world and not to be too attached to one specifically.
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Abebi
Cries of a baby
Tears of Iya Abebi
Evil some people call life
Isn’t it darkness that brought her to life?
At birth she takes a sweet full
Colostrum it is called
Nigeria, I call Abebi
Iya, I call her forefathers
Abebi did not grow like others
When a father drinks the milk,
of the child
Doesn’t the child’s belly get bigger?
Abebi did not take in
Enough milk while growing,
even though, filled with milk and honey
Abebi is now weaned on garri
My challenge to you this new year is that you become a better story. Observe and create. The future will read us because we all are the new books. We have been together in this community, sharing our thoughts, challenging one another. This platform believes in African...
The 2018 Bristol Short Story Prize is open for entries. The competition is open to all writers around the world whether published or unpublished, UK or non-UK based. The closing date for entries is midnight (BST) May 1st 2018. 20 stories will be shortlisted and...
WHY DID MY FOREFATHERS MISS THE SLAVE SHIP? My name is Renegade Forlorn. I am an African. In fact, I am a Nigerian. I possess qualities and potentials that are desperately needed elsewhere. How do I know this? My intuition tells me so, daily. To be honest, I can...
Anyone you would ask about book sales would tell you that one sale is determined by so many factors. Bloggers are also a huge part of book promotion these days.We all know that readers are not as enthusiastic as they have always been. Moreover, we are trying out...
This took me a while to understand and I would probably have called this “cracking the “ISBN Code.” The International Standard Book Number is not going to guarantee you book sales after you publish. Yes, you heard that right. In fact, most people don’t know why we...
She is curled up in a dark cave several leagues from her village. Sweat drips from her forehead down to her cracked feet as she looks up at the stones which she has used to seal the caves' mouth. She shudders in fear at what is about to happen. She can still hear the...
Ese Ark's Naked is a real breath of fresh air, a lens through which we get to see an enhanced view of those murky parts of our lives where we are unconsciously just ambling through, whilst also providing us with fresh feasible real life evidences and solutions. Ese...
Dear future wife, My name is Tolulope Williams, a God fearing man, loving and caring. not exactly handsome but fearfully and wonderfully made. I am really awed by your beauty and character and that’s the reason my keypad jostles, to write you this piece with a heart...
You know how they say content is king, it's true. Whoever controls content is king and they determine how it is used. The publisher used to be king because, without him, your story was not good enough. Now ebooks are here and they have just one thing to say "You...
Life breaks people, so much that quite a number of them, live, thinking death is its only break! DIARY of a BROKEN POET is a juicy attempt at recycling the same brokenness which leaves so many perching on the point of breaking like a bird with wrecked wings, only...
