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SEVHAGE READINGS: UNOMA NGUEMO AZUAH (PROCEEDINGS)
VENUE: Behind NUJ House, Makurdi DATE: Monday 18th June, 2012 The role of literature should be to instruct and entertain – Horace _________________________ PROCEEDINGS ___________________________ The event started at 16:35hrs. Opening Prayer H. O. C. Kochis’s opening prayer was in the form of a … Continue reading
Call for Submissions: Scythe Literary Journal (summer issue)
Deadline: 21 July 2012 (summer issue), 31 October 2012 (winter issue), 16 March 2013 (spring issue) Send poems and prose-poems. Send us 3-5 of the ones that haunt you, the ones that deserve homes–prodigal orphans, the ones who stand at the edge of the forest and peer in, the ones who tend to stick in … Continue reading
Call for Submissions for Snippets: An Anthology of Short Verse
Deadline: 30 June 2012 Karen O’Leary and APF Publisher, Patricia Simpson are seeking short verse for a new anthology with the tentative title of Snippets…an anthology of short verse. We are targeting a general audience of all ages. With that in mind, we are looking for poetry that is easy to understand while still creative. … Continue reading
SILENT NIGHT (A Short Story) by Kurannen Baaki
Silent Night. Holy Night. All is Sound. All is Bright…. Sleep in Heavenly Peace! Sleep in Heavenly Peace! In the distance, almost faint by the time it got to his ears, the bells of the church had clanged. It was time. It was Christmas Eve, in the year of the Lord 2012. A reported … Continue reading
RED SUNDAY by Michael Okwori
(A Poem in memory of DANA) The rising sun smiled shyly, Like a mischievous prankster With a dirty joke up his sleeve. Prophets watched the day with suspicion. The wind howled ominously, Like the wail of a banshee. Morning birds sang a mournful note, As dogs barked at wandering spirits. Worshipers … Continue reading
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: DANA FLIGHT 9J-992 TO LAGOS
The Naija Stories community is calling on its members and the general public to contibute to an anthology to commemorate the death, Sunday 3rd of June, of 153 passengers and crew of Dana Airlines Flight 9J-992 from Abuja to Lagos and about 10 residents of the houses the plane crashed into. We want to see … Continue reading
WIN 15,000 IN ‘EDIBLE BONES’ REVIEW CONTEST!!
New Books Nigeria has launched a book review competition for the best three reviews of Unoma Azuah’s Edible Bones. To participate in this contest, simply buy your own copy of EDIBLE BONES, enjoy it, write a review of not more that 500 words afterwards and you stand a chance of winning a cash prize. · … Continue reading
MY FATHER WAS A HERO (Short Story) By Kurannen Baaki
I did not hear about the bomb until I returned from school. The first one, ten days ago, we heard it. We even felt it, because it had trembled our school buildings. Our teacher said it was a very big explosion to shake the buildings of our school about a kilometer away from the impact … Continue reading
SEVHAGE BENUE READING with UNOMA NGUEMO AZUAH (PRE-EVENT INTERVIEW)
Find the intro to the event here… Su’eddie Vershima Agema: Lots of people in Benue (and beyond I guess) would like to get to know a bit more about you. Can you let us in a bit on childhood, growing up and where you are at the moment? Unoma Nguemo Azuah: I was born … Continue reading
