![Paper Anniversary [A Poem] by MaryAnn Ifeanacho](https://sevhage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sevhage-poems-1.png?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "Paper Anniversary [A Poem] by MaryAnn Ifeanacho")
After my first year of marriage,I learned to open the gift of my body in darkness To open the gift of my body in darknessBecause my beloved said it wore the sins of my youth The sins of my youth,The stretch marks, thunderbolts of love from my beautiful son Stretch marks, love, and a beautiful … Continue reading
SEVHAGE is proud to invite entries from the general public in the categories for the 2024 edition: The Eugenia Abu/SEVHAGE International Prize for Creative Non-Fiction (500-2000 words). Open to all writers anywhere and everywhere. The K & L Prize for Fiction for a work of short fiction (800-2000 words) that focus on mental health and … Continue reading
Nigerian poet, playwright, and editor Michael Imossan has been announced as the winner of the 2024 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets with his collection All that Refuses to Die. Imossan is the twelfth winner of the prize and joins the ranks of fellow Nigerian poets Tares Oburumu (Origins of the Syma Species, 2022) … Continue reading
Damilola Omotoyinbo is a Nigerian Poet/Writer, a 2019 Fellow of the Ebedi International Writers Residency, and a member of the Frontiers Collective. She emerged as Winner of the 2023 Writivism Poetry Prize. She has also won several poetry honors. Notably; Co-Winner of the 2023 Writing Ukraine Prize, 2023 SEVHAGE/Agema-Founders Prize (for Poetry), 2021 SprinNg Annual … Continue reading
1st July 2024 Following our announcement of the above-named prize on Friday 28th June 2024, we were made aware of some posts and comments made in reference to the prize by Pa Ikhide R Ikheloa. While we would like nothing better than to tune out the noise and focus on what we believe to be … Continue reading
One of the more consistent poets on the Nigerian scene today is the vocal and sometimes controversial, Jide Badmus, a passionate poet and literary promoter who through the years has come to be a leading literary voice. Though Badmus has been writing for a long time (about twenty years), his first published poetry collection is … Continue reading
![AN EVENING OF READINGS AT THE POETRY ON THE GO [PoGo] SESSION AND FABRICE GAGOS’S PORTRAITS OF THE NOTTINGHAM POETRY FESTIVAL](https://sevhage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/gpc07x1akaabctg.png?w=188&h=162&crop=1 "AN EVENING OF READINGS AT THE POETRY ON THE GO [PoGo] SESSION AND FABRICE GAGOS’S PORTRAITS OF THE NOTTINGHAM POETRY FESTIVAL")
by Su’ur Su’eddie Vershima Agema The Nottingham Poetry Festival 2024, held from the 7th to the 16th of June across various libraries in the city, featured amazing events. However, attending them all was always going to be daunting with the conflicting events and more importantly, the busyness of one’s schedules. With lots of hopping across … Continue reading
In this interview, SEVHAGE author, Amaka Felly Obioji, development enthusiast and author of Mother, Did You Call My Name? is in conversation with Jola Ademola on her writing and much more. Enjoy: JOLA: What inspired you to compile and publish “Mother, did you call my name?” AMAKA: I have always been writing short-form poetry that I usually … Continue reading
A Cry for Mercy is a book of lamentations. A distraught persona navigates mystical terrains with a carnal compass—interrogates pain from a spiritual slant. This 123-paged poetry book is a collection of letters to God. It’s like a diary—frustrated monologues & aching contemplations—mistakenly left in the open. Who writes letters, you wonder, in this age, … Continue reading
The 2023 SEVHAGE literary competition collated several exciting entries from across several corners of Africa. With four categories to showcase the multifaceted talent of African writers, the celebrated judges – led by multiple award-winning renowned author, scholar, and teacher, Professor Hyginus Ekwuazi – were once again reminded of the incredible depth and breadth of our … Continue reading
