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REMEMBER US by Chibueze Obunadike
REMEMBER USby Chibueze Obunadike Shortlist (Top Six) of the 2019 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category)“Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us” — Sappho a drunk man walks into a room and hits his lover till she begins...
HOW LAST TUESDAY BECAME BLACK TUESDAY by Praise Osawaru
HOW LAST TUESDAY BECAME BLACK TUESDAYby Praise OsawaruShortlist (Top Six) of the 2019 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category)last Tuesday began with showers of sunlight/the kind that melts your spoonful of ice cream/before it arrives at the...
Winners of 2019 Kreative Diadem Creative Writing Contest
Winners of 2019 Kreative Diadem Creative Writing Contest We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2019 Kreative Diadem Creative Writing Contest. Now in its third year, the prize seeks to recognize the best writings by Nigerian writers aged 21 years and below....
THE FALLEN ANGEL by Ebeigbe Brian
THE FALLEN ANGELby Ebeigbe Brian The Fallen Angel - Second Runner-up of the 2019 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Flash Fiction Category) The door let loose an agonizing creak as it slowly leaned open. Crumbled paint and what he could only assume to be...
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,...
THE UNIVERSE, TINCTURED by KC Manuel
THE UNIVERSE, TINCTURED by KC Manuel I The chalk writings leap off the face of the blackboard which received a paint job that nudiustertian morning. The blackboard, always in a continuous mode of data collection like a government database, is as rigid as the...
“Sweat and Patience Always Constitute the Writer’s Best Weapons” – Interview with Brigitte Poirson
TABLE TALK"Sweat and Patience Always Constitute the Writer's Best Weapons" - Interview with Brigitte Poirson Brigitte Poirson is a multiple award-winning poet, a former teacher, university lecturer and editor that inspires the literary world out of France. She has...
THE HUMILITY OF GOD by Samuel Kolawole Adebayo
THE HUMILITY OF GOD by Samuel Kolawole Adebayo He who made water Came to Jordan To be baptized of water. God took upon himself The flesh of man, Which will mean God visited the John [which is not Baptist], Which will mean God might have slept In a room full of...
WHAT TO IMAGINE by Yusuff Uthman Adekola
WHAT TO IMAGINE by Yusuff Uthman AdekolaWhat to imagine by Yusuff Uthman Adekola - Shortlist (Top Five) of the 2018 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category) Imagine you were a fishPlaced on a sandy line between water and land,Feeling the...
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
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
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