Search Results for: romeo oriogun

October 15, 2022

Romeo Oriogun Is the First Openly Queer Writer to Win the Nigeria Prize for Literature

The bisexual poet’s historic victory, for his second collection Nomad, is also the first time that a writer of the younger generation has won Africa’s richest prize, worth $100,000.

Romeo Oriogun Wrested Poetry from Pain

From the streets of Benin City to The New Yorker, a young working-class Nigerian writer scaled obstacles and became a defining voice in African poetry.

Gbenga Adesina, Romeo Oriogun, & Kemi Alabi to Perform at New York Online Event

The conversation, moderated by fellow Nigerian poet Omotara James, is organized by the City Artists Corps Grant and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Sacrament of Bodies by Romeo Oriogun Review—An Originative Work by an Epochal Poet

In his debut collection, the Nigerian poet exults in the beauty of queer bodies even in pain. His voice is prophetic and tourist, filled with experience and wonder.

Romeo Oriogun & Sulaiman Addonia Shortlisted for 2021 Lambda Awards

The Nigerian poet’s Sacrament of Bodies is nominated in the Gay Poetry category, & the Eritrean-Ethiopian novelist’s Silence Is My Mother Tongue is in Bisexual Fiction.

Enter for Arts & Letters Prizes, Judged by Romeo Oriogun & Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

Winners will be published in the journal and receive $1,000. The deadline for submissions is 31 March 2021.

From Warsan Shire, Romeo Oriogun, and Safia Elhillo to Arinze Ifeakandu, Akwaeke Emezi, NoViolet Bulawayo, and Chinelo Okparanta: our second annual highlight of the top titles of the year by African writers.

Open Country Mag

August 27, 2022

The $100,000 NLNG Prize Announces Youngest Ever Shortlist

In an unusual decision that has surprised and delighted observers, the final three poets—Romeo Oriogun, Su’eddie Vershima Agema, and Saddiq Dzukogi—come from the younger generation.

Uzoma Ihejirika

July 11, 2022

The $100,000 NLNG Prize Longlist a Mix of Young and Veteran Nigerian Poets

The 11 nominees for Africa’s richest literary award, led by rising star Romeo Oriogun, include Iquo DianaAbasi and Su’eddie Vershima Agema—a departure from its tradition of ignoring newer voices.

Emmanuel Esomnofu

March 27, 2022

Isele Magazine Announces Shortlists for Prizes

Finalists include poets Romeo Oriogun, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, and Itiola Jones, and short story writers Troy Onyango and Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo.

Paula Willie-Okafor

February 2, 2022

The 50+ Most Anticipated Books of 2022

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, NoViolet Bulawayo, and Arinze Ifeakandu to Warsan Shire and Romeo Oriogun, here are over 50 books expected to lead the literary conversation.

Open Country Mag

August 17, 2023

“‘Our Literature Has Died Again’: Nigerian Writing in the Era of the Nomadists”

As conversations sethe about the “death” of Nigerian literature and the loss of authenticity in its poetry, a writer counters for the growing japa-MFA subculture: “I call them the Nomadic Generation because of their complication of nationalism.”

Kanyinsola Olorunnisola

February 19, 2023

The Rovingheights Bestseller List 2022: Presented with Open Country Mag

Announcing the first formal bestseller list in Nigerian literature, covering fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children’s books, and self-published titles, with an overall Top 100.

Open Country Mag

November 4, 2022

After 2 Years Covering African Literature, Open Country Mag Expands into Film & TV

Even as we cross industries, our angle of storytelling remains to be revelatory, and our style literary.

Otosirieze

August 4, 2022

Troy Onyango on Lolwe & Literary Magazine Publishing in Africa

The platform, founded and edited by the Kenyan writer, is building a conversation between Africa and the Black diaspora. It is his second venture after the defunct Enkare Review.

Socrates Mbamalu

July 23, 2022

In Conversation with Lan Samantha Chang, Director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop

The influential Chinese American novelist on running the famed program, new African writing, MFAs, literary genres, and her novel The Family Chao. “There is the possibility of creating the conversation that brings in as many voices as possible,” she said of the Workshop.

Otosirieze

May 30, 2022

Khadija Abdalla Bajaber on Fantasy & the Character of Kenyan Writing

“I needed to write something that takes advantage of the rich nuances in my own culture,” said the Graywolf Press Africa Prize-winning author of The House of Rust.

Paula Willie-Okafor

May 28, 2022

12 Publications Currently Open for Submissions

From One Story to Isele, submit your work to these magazines.

Emmanuel Esomnofu

May 4, 2022

Zimbabwe’s Zibusiso Mpofu Wins 2022 Brunel Prize

The judges praised his “allusive, lyrical poems [which] open a new itinerary in African poetry, drawing in Shona and Mandarin and mapping a journey of the Black body through India, Hong Kong, the Philippines and China.”

Emmanuel Esomnofu

April 29, 2022

Keletso Mopai Owns Her Story and Her Voice

The author of the short story collection If You Keep Digging on activism, the social power of literature, and South Africa’s need for change.

Paula Willie-Okafor

October 15, 2022

Romeo Oriogun Is the First Openly Queer Writer to Win the Nigeria Prize for Literature

The bisexual poet’s historic victory, for his second collection Nomad, is also the first time that a writer of the younger generation has won Africa’s richest prize, worth $100,000.

Emmanuel Esomnofu

April 6, 2022

Romeo Oriogun Wrested Poetry from Pain

From the streets of Benin City to The New Yorker, a young working-class Nigerian writer scaled obstacles and became a defining voice in African poetry.

Emmanuel Esomnofu

October 28, 2021

Gbenga Adesina, Romeo Oriogun, & Kemi Alabi to Perform at New York Online Event

The conversation, moderated by fellow Nigerian poet Omotara James, is organized by the City Artists Corps Grant and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Emmanuel Esomnofu

April 15, 2021

Sacrament of Bodies by Romeo Oriogun Review—An Originative Work by an Epochal Poet

In his debut collection, the Nigerian poet exults in the beauty of queer bodies even in pain. His voice is prophetic and tourist, filled with experience and wonder.

Emmanuel Esomnofu

March 15, 2021

Romeo Oriogun & Sulaiman Addonia Shortlisted for 2021 Lambda Awards

The Nigerian poet’s Sacrament of Bodies is nominated in the Gay Poetry category, & the Eritrean-Ethiopian novelist’s Silence Is My Mother Tongue is in Bisexual Fiction.

Otosirieze

February 12, 2021

Enter for Arts & Letters Prizes, Judged by Romeo Oriogun & Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

Winners will be published in the journal and receive $1,000. The deadline for submissions is 31 March 2021.

Uzoma Ihejirika

December 29, 2022

The 60 Notable Books of 2022

Open Country Mag

August 27, 2022

The $100,000 NLNG Prize Announces Youngest Ever Shortlist

In an unusual decision that has surprised and delighted observers, the final three poets—Romeo Oriogun, Su’eddie Vershima Agema, and Saddiq Dzukogi—come from the younger generation.

Uzoma Ihejirika

July 11, 2022

The $100,000 NLNG Prize Longlist a Mix of Young and Veteran Nigerian Poets

Emmanuel Esomnofu

March 27, 2022

Isele Magazine Announces Shortlists for Prizes

Finalists include poets Romeo Oriogun, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, and Itiola Jones, and short story writers Troy Onyango and Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo.

Paula Willie-Okafor

February 2, 2022

The 50+ Most Anticipated Books of 2022

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, NoViolet Bulawayo, and Arinze Ifeakandu to Warsan Shire and Romeo Oriogun, here are over 50 books expected to lead the literary conversation.

Open Country Mag

August 17, 2023

“‘Our Literature Has Died Again’: Nigerian Writing in the Era of the Nomadists”

Kanyinsola Olorunnisola

February 19, 2023

The Rovingheights Bestseller List 2022: Presented with Open Country Mag

Announcing the first formal bestseller list in Nigerian literature, covering fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children’s books, and self-published titles, with an overall Top 100.

Open Country Mag

November 4, 2022

After 2 Years Covering African Literature, Open Country Mag Expands into Film & TV

Even as we cross industries, our angle of storytelling remains to be revelatory, and our style literary.

Otosirieze

August 4, 2022

Troy Onyango on Lolwe & Literary Magazine Publishing in Africa

The platform, founded and edited by the Kenyan writer, is building a conversation between Africa and the Black diaspora. It is his second venture after the defunct Enkare Review.

Socrates Mbamalu

July 23, 2022

In Conversation with Lan Samantha Chang, Director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop

Otosirieze

May 30, 2022

Khadija Abdalla Bajaber on Fantasy & the Character of Kenyan Writing

“I needed to write something that takes advantage of the rich nuances in my own culture,” said the Graywolf Press Africa Prize-winning author of The House of Rust.