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AND THIS IS HOW THEY BECOME BEAUTIFUL by Mhembeuter Jeremiah Orhemba
AND THIS IS HOW THEY BECOME BEAUTIFULby Mhembeuter Jeremiah Orhemba First Runner-up of the 2021 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Flash Fiction Category) The boy wants to cry. He sniffs in mucus for the umpteenth time, but his mother holds his arm and...
A MATCHING PAIR by Agbai Emmaterry Chinonso
A MATCHING PAIRby Agbai Emmaterry Chinonso Winner of the 2021 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Flash Fiction Category) “Good night mummy!” Benjamin calls as I walk past their room. “Sleep dear, you have school tomorrow.” “Must we go?” Grace, the...
EUPHEMISM by Samuel Adeyemi
EUPHEMISMby Samuel Adeyemi Second Runner-up of the 2021 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category) Murder by a scalpel is pronounced death, not surgery. There is no intricacy when the blade drowns in a body, whirling inside like a wet...
ELOCUTIO by Olaitan Junaid
ELOCUTIOby Olaitan Junaid First Runner-up of the 2021 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category) depending on // how // it is handled // a poem // could be // a knife // like a toddler // with boobs // i handle my grief ...
IT IS HOPE THAT KEEPS THE FLAME OF DREAMS DANCING by Balogun Abdulmueed
IT IS HOPE THAT KEEPS THE FLAME OF DREAMS DANCINGby Abdulmueed Balogun Winner of the 2021 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category) It is hope that keeps the flame of dreams dancing, even when the wind of forlorn throws at it a thousand blow....
BITTER KOLA by Olalekan Hussein
BITTER KOLAby Olalekan HusseinShortlist (Top Seven) of the 2020 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category)Where are those beautiful days? When children pluck their happiness at night Listening to folklores under the mango tree smiling at them...
OEDIPUS TRAVAIL by Bayo Aderoju
OEDIPUS TRAVAILby Bayo AderojuShortlist (Top Seven) of the 2020 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category)I Yesterday, the village rainmaker held rain. This morning, wind mimicked rooster, woke a storm, blew rainclouds' eclipsing garb...
MEMORIES by Abdulmueed Balogun
MEMORIESby Abdulmueed BalogunShortlist (Top Seven) of the 2020 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category)A young man walks through a hunted street and his phobia resurrected from its tomb Yet he walks, but with his eyes closed, ...
LIFE IS A PROPER FRACTION by Damilola Omotoyinbo
LIFE IS A PROPER FRACTION by Damilola OmotoyinboShortlist (Top Seven) of the 2020 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category)i am neck-deep in a quagmire, my mind is a gallery holding the dire portraits of my life on my flesh, pain has...
THIS THING CALLED DEATH by Blessing Anaso
THIS THING CALLED DEATHby Blessing AnasoShortlist (Top Seven) of the 2020 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category)I was twelve when I first saw it, Cells fat and pink, the colour of cancer, I saw its fingers in Ma's falling hair and in her...
MELODY OF ANARCHY by Ajani Samuel
MELODY OF ANARCHYby Ajani SamuelShortlist (Top Seven) of the 2020 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category)Our land is Atacama desert for The past two weeks Yesterday, I met my brother praying For rain under our stairs So last night, it rained....
“It’s Universal law that whatever you focus on expands” – Interview with Chiwenite Onyekwelu
TABLE TALK“It’s Universal law that whatever you focus on expands" - Interview with Chiwenite OnyekweluIn anticipation of the fifth edition of Kreative Diadem’s annual writing contest, we share this interview with Chiwenite Onyekwelu, last year’s poetry winner....
STATIONS OF THE CROSS by Caleb Okereke
UNRAVELLING by Michael Emmanuel
A STRIDE INTO A FAINT HOPE by Emmanuel Charity
BUT THIS IS NOT A POEM ABOUT RAIN by Hauwa Nuhu
MILLE by Gimbiya Galadima
PRAYER: AIR by Pamilerin Jacob
RELIEF by Aguajah Ifeanyi
A RUINED CANDLE WAX STILL BREATHES ITSELF INTO SHAPE by Ugochukwu Damian
AUNT MARIAM by Olatunji Uthman
A REPUBLIC OF WILDNESS by Michael Akuchie
PLAN FOR MY ONE WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE by Laura Kaminski
JESSE by Michelle Nnanyelugo
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