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BORN AGAIN by Tunji Akande
BORN AGAIN by Tunji Akande Born Again - First Runner-up of the 2019 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Flash Fiction Category) My mother screamed nine times in one night, drawing fistfuls of her hair, cursing God, Eve and the earth that produced the...
AYOMIDE by Nneoma Mbalewe
AYOMIDE by Nneoma Mbalewe Ayomide - Winner of the 2019 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Flash Fiction Category) My body craves water but I have none to give it. I have never stayed this long without water. It’s been forty-five hours or so and I really...
FALLING WATERS by Lade Falobi
FALLING WATERS by Lade Falobi Falling Waters - Second Runner-up of the 2019 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category) My mother says when it rains and one needs to pee/one does not need to find a toilet.I cry in the rain so she doesn't see.The...
GRIEF WILL REMAKE YOU by Ernest Ogunyemi
GRIEF WILL REMAKE YOUby Ernest Ogunyemi Grief Will Remake You - First Runner-up of the 2019 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category) “Grief will probably/ redraft your whole/ anatomy”—Caroline Ebeid I have just begun my walk out of dawn& I...
ODE TO OUR BODY ON FIRE by Anthony Okpunor
ODE TO OUR BODY ON FIREby Anthony Okpunor Ode to Our Body on Fire - Winner of the 2019 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category) Make me a night I have not died in & let me see the way it burns. Because this is life I have envied everything...
SHIFT, LET HER FAINT by Joseph Olamide Babalola
SHIFT, LET HER FAINT by Joseph Olamide Babalola She is in a taxi, almost reaching home, fingers caressing her old Android with screen cracks the semblance of the world map. Normally, other things being equal, this is Nigeria, SMS wishes should have started dinging...
“Read, read, ask good and silly questions” – Interview with Onyedikachi Chinedu
TABLE TALK" Read, read, ask good and silly questions " - Interview with Onyedikachi ChineduThis year marks the third edition of Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest and we are super pumped to have a one-on-one chat with the winner of the second edition in...
“Every good work inspires me” – Interview with Chizoma Emeka Joshua
TABLE TALK"Every good work inspires me" - Interview with Chizoma Emeka Joshua This year marks the third edition of Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest and we are super pumped to have a one-on-one chat with the winner of the second edition in the flash...
THE DEFINITIVE TIME OF NOTHINGNESS by Sheikha A.
THE DEFINITIVE TIME OF NOTHINGNESS by Sheikha A. Her eyes are ponds rippling the moon; snip in the air turning fade and the confusion of a quarrel with the deceased relative's visit in mother's dream is grimier than the clarity of murky water she saw centered in a...
IF GOD WAS A NIGERIAN by Othuke Umukoro
IF GOD WAS A NIGERIANby Othuke UmukoroASUU would strike himtill his sorrow grows a beard. He would be a Yahoo boy or a pimp or a drug dealeror an innocent girl in the cold & dark streets ofItaly tendering white men’s amorous dreamsor all of the above. He would be...
FLOWER PETALS by Ugochukwu Damian
FLOWER PETALS by Ugochukwu Damian for ikedinaobi your country is a hunger that you cannot name your bones are fragile like flower petals & there’s a river in your body that you cannot name & there’s a country emptying this river into itself where queer bodies...
SELF by Adejuwon Gbalajobi
SELF by Adejuwon Gbalajobi I wear my fear around my neck like a tie, my fear, the reason my sleep comes in fits. & anytime I close my eyes, my demon transmogrifies into thoughts, an accuser, a finger pointed at me: "You, you'll be like your father, a waste." "You,...
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