by Ernest Ogunyemi
Their session, “Collective Threads: Digital Connectivity, Creative Power & Global Black Activism,” includes Sena Voncujovi, co-founder of Jaspora, and moderator Zoe Ramushu.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Ernest O. Ògunyemi is a staff writer at Open Country Mag. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Joyland, Tinderbox, Sierra Nevada Review, Journal Nine, The Indianapolis Review, Down River Road, Capsule Stories, No Tokens, The West Review, The Dark Magazine, Mud Season Review, Isele, and in the anthology 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry III. He is the curator of The Fire That Is Dreamed of: The Young African Poets Anthology.
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by Ernest Ogunyemi
The selections, says the chair of judges Bernardine Evaristo, are “gloriously varied and thematically rich . . . and grapple with society’s big issues expressed through thrilling storytelling.”
by Ernest Ogunyemi
The text and photographic sequences are in the still life tradition of Chardin, Cezanne, and the Dutch masters, as well as the contemporary photographers Laura Letinsky and Jan Groover.
by Ernest Ogunyemi
Their short stories will appear in The Best Short Stories Anthology 2021, guest-edited and introduced by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Being selected is “a thrill,” Ezeano says.
by Ernest Ogunyemi
The American poet Claudia Rankine, who picked it as winner, called it “energetic and brilliant.”
by Ernest Ogunyemi
Thirteen years after his bestselling collection Say You’re One of Them, the Nigerian Catholic priest is back.
by Ernest Ogunyemi
Thirteen years after he started it, his debut novel The Madhouse finally arrives. This chronicle of the ‘90s, set in northern Nigeria, broadens the familiar for the 29-year-old.
by Ernest Ogunyemi
In his third chapbook, the Nigerian poet returns to grief. And he’s telling stories.
by Ernest Ogunyemi
With his story in Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki becomes the first Africa-based writer to be shortlisted. “It’s something you never realised that it’s possible,” he said.
by Ernest Ogunyemi
“[It] had me in tears, wailing, the most emotional I’ve felt after reading a book, for a long, long time,” said one of the judges.
