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MIRACLE MOUNTAIN by Timi Sanni
MIRACLE MOUNTAINby Timi Sanni Winner of the 2022 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category) with a line adapted from Samuel A. Adeyemi's 'Flight' In the same heat with which I've forged my convictions,they bend now. This is one poem for pain....
Winner of the 2022 Kreative Diadem Creative Writing Contest
Winner of the 2022 Kreative Diadem Creative Writing ContestHere is the highly anticipated list of the winners of the 2022 Kreative Diadem Creative Writing Contest. Now in its sixth year, the prize seeks to recognize the best literary works by Nigerian writers aged 21...
PORTRAIT OF FADING, INTO A SONG by Olowonjoyin Mohammed Sanni
PORTRAIT OF FADING, INTO A SONGby Olowonjoyin Muhammed Sannia chord strums in my earpieces & that’s how I know how to unwear some memories that cliché tears in them like tornadoes cliché havoc. my skin, a burnable piece of grief, & songs, fires soothing the...
“I’m Usually Inspired by Everything” – Interview with Agbai Ematerry Chinonso
TABLE TALK“I'm Usually Inspired by Everything”— Interview with Agbai Ematerry ChinonsoKreative Diadem is known for its Annual Creative Writing Contest, demonstrating our commitment to young writers' literary growth across Africa and beyond. We recently chatted with...
“Poetry Has Been a Balm and a Companion” – Interview with Abdulmueed Balogun
TABLE TALK“Poetry Has Been a Balm and a Companion" - Interview with Abdulmueed BalogunKreative Diadem is known for its Annual Creative Writing Contest, demonstrating our commitment to young writers' literary growth across Africa and beyond. We recently chatted with...
HOW DINNER COMES IN MY HOMETOWN by Ayodeji Israel
HOW DINNER COMES IN MY HOMETOWNby Ayòdéjì Israel perhaps, this lunch of smokes with dried bodies and red wines of sad bloods with elegies of jubilation fumed in the air whenever a fork rattles a flesh is no more redolent, my neighbours packed in a pair of chickens...
THE CATERPILLAR’S CALIPERS by Jake Sheff
THE CATERPILLAR'S CALIPERSby Jake SheffI. So much depends upon the muse’s invocation, Glazed with white feathers all abandoned at The rainy entry; signs of fire are present: Cain and tar. A self-made song to justify The ways of death to kings, or justify The...
THIS LAND IS NOT AN HABITAT FOR US by Enobong Ernest
THIS LAND IS NOT AN HABITAT FOR USby Enobong Ernestin this dream a family bends down to search for the body of their father among the remains of bomb blast a new orphan is soaked in the colour of a loved one's blood i wake up, pleading God’s son’s blood tv is on....
HOW TO MOUTH BROKEN PSALMS IN AN EARTHQUAKE by Wisdom Adediji
HOW TO MOUTH BROKEN PSALMS IN AN EARTHQUAKEby Wisdom AdedijiShortlist (Top Seven) of the 2020 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category)1 It's okay to let go. to spread your palms over the clitoris of your shadow & mouth your fears like the...
THE CLEANSING by Taiwo Odesanya
THE CLEANSINGby Taiwo OdesanyaShortlist (Top Seven) of the 2020 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category)Say, frustration is the seed mothering these Bullets the earth is puffing, Say, it is the gun flooding this heat, These droughts, these...
FOR THE FIRST LOSS OF INNOCENCE by Adedamola Olabimpe
FOR THE FIRST LOSS OF INNOCENCEby Adedamola OlabimpeShortlist (Top Seven) of the 2020 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category)your first kiss was a crime scene. stolen from you in the darkness of your mother's kitchen. it slid down your throat...
ONE DARK NIGHT by Oloruntobi Ayomikun
ONE DARK NIGHTby Oloruntobi Ayomikun Second Runner-up of the 2021 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Flash Fiction Category) “Stop dia!” The Policeman shouts as he shines his large flashlight at our oncoming vehicle. The bus driver nearly loses his hand...
“FICTION REMAINS MY FIRST LOVE” – Caleb Okereke
A HYMN FOR THE FAIR GEESE by Nome Patrick
“BEING A REBEL IS ABOUT REJECTING CONFORMITY” – Logan February
“I WOULD CHANGE HOW THE WORLD PERCEIVES WOMEN” – Frances Ogamba
AFRICA DIES EACH TIME SHE FAILS TO OWN HER STORIES by Karino Emmanuel
THE LOVERS by Logan February
THE GOSPEL OF REBELS by Othuke Umukoro
THE OTHER DWELLER by Frances Ogamba
BEYOND THE SILVER LINING by Efe-Khaese Desmond
PERVERSION by Logan February
COLOURS AND THEIR EMPTINESS by Ìyàndá Abimbola
PALMS OF OIL by Kolawole Adebayo
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