Introducing the Reader Team at Afrihill Press Afrihill Press is pleased to introduce our reader team. This group of dedicated individuals will be responsible for reading and reviewing all submissions received by our publishing house. Our readers will work closely with the Founding Editor by supporting the editorial process of creative works submitted to Afrihill […]
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Afrihill Press Unveils First Print Title with Qudus Olowo’s Chapbook A Black Bird Sings About Loss The Nigerian poet, editor, rapper, singer, and songwriter, Qudus Olowo, also known as Blacc, in conjunction with Afrihill Press, is set to launch his poetry chapbook A Black Bird Sings About Loss on April 11, 2026, at the National Library
Afrihill Press is pleased to announce a free three-day virtual writing seminar that will take place from March 27 to March 29, 2026. The seminar will bring together writers, readers, and people who love literature for thoughtful discussions about writing and the role of literature during difficult times. The theme of the seminar is The
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Photo Credit: Kainebi Osahenye Senzeni Na ? My bedroom light flickers in the cold air, A configuration of everything you used to be. We sit in the wreckage of a silent room, Searching the dust for a reason/a sign/a decree. Senzeni na? What have we done to deserve this winter? Senzeni na? What is
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Afrihill Press invites applications from passionate individuals to serve as volunteer readers for poetry and fiction submissions. As a volunteer reader, you will play the essential role in shaping the literary landscape by evaluating manuscripts and providing constructive feedback to writers. Application Details: – Application Window: February 27, 2026 – March 20, 2026, 11:59pm WAT
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Photo Credit: Etsy.com Mercy, mercy after Michael Imossan Somewhere in Ikorodu, violence is loosening its fists, thawing like ice in the chest of a tout. he drowns a bus driver in baptismal curses with names of different gods. a market woman spits on a customer shaving prices like hair down to the scalp. meaning slips
Photo Credit: Unsplash Eden 2047 After Annihilation 2018 / After Ifeoluwa / After Emmanuel Umeji’s Eden, 2052 your name remains bulleted in the journal you gifted me on my birthday. there are extra bullets in all the places you marked ghosts, for haunting. think, Obiajulu. see the terracotta streets through which we walk into infinity and
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Photo Credit: Dreamstime The Distance of Water The first time Lamide heard the Lagos lagoon breathe, she imagined it was whispering a name she had spent three years avoiding. “Felix,” it sighed, or maybe she only heard what she wished. The wind tasted of salt, diesel, and roasted corn from the road. Fishermen hauled their
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Photo Credit: Paradise Gate House The Weight of What Moves Us: On Oladosu Michael Emerald’s Debut Poetry Collection Language is not the content of thought but the vessel into which we pour the ambivalences and contradictions of our thinking, afloat on the current of feeling and time. When the vessel becomes too small to hold
Photo Credit: Etsy.com Something crimson, Something soft You pedal me out of this noisy universe; you take me to a place of crimson silence, where nothing fades, where nothing dies. You teach me how to move with the wind, how to fly, seamlessly— fluffy as troubleless feathers. I have learnt to depart this world through silence, and return as though I never left. I am cradling our love because it is what I think I deserve. Contributor’s Bio Olobo Ejile, a Nigerian poet, writer, and researcher. He is a member of the Hilltop Creative Arts Foundation, Lagos Chapter. He volunteers as an assistant poetry editor for Table Feasting Magazine. He is a fellow of the 2025 Idembeka Creative Writing Workshop and the Global Arts in Medicine Fellowship; longlisted for both Wale Okediran Poetry Prize and Octofest Anthologies 1.0. His works have appeared or are forthcoming in ANA Review 2024, Fiction Niche, Shallow Tales Review, Artisans Quill, EOPP Anthology 2025, Indy Press, Cọ́n-scìò Magazine, and elsewhere. Connect with him on X @Olobo_Ejile.
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