Kudos to our Poetry Editor 👏🏼👏🏼💪🏼

Keep on, magnificent destiny will find you!💖

So proud of how great this issue is looking, how packed full of awesome talents it is, and the incredible JAY Lit team who have worked tirelessly to put it together. Can’t wait for its release come July 22. 🚀🚀💯💯

Our September 2024 edition of the #JayLitSpotlightSeries features 2024 winner of the Singapore Poetry Contest and JAY Lit Poetry Editor, Gabriel Awuah Mainoo. It drops on Thursday, September 26. We can’t wait to share Gabriel’s awesome journey!

I believe we live in journeys; because we never reach walking in one. Take time to explore my literary escapade featured in the Journal of African Youth Literature spotlight series. 😊

Thank you for the light 🕯️!

What decent grace to be nominated for Best of the Net. Thank you Journal of African Youth Literature

On this symbolic day in Denmark; is a distinctive honor to be holding the walking staff of Prof. Emeritus Kofi Anyidoho; I see this not only as a ritual, but also the passing on of a new generation. Thank you the ceremony of spiritual letters.🕯️ Photo credit: William.

Gabriel Awuah Mainoo (Gabriel Awuah Mainoo) Graces Dialogue with Africa in Denmark jaylit.com/gabriel-awuah-…

This Sunday bloats me with a lung-full of gratitude; I'm grateful for Aarhus Literature Center for taking good care of me during my residency & participation in the African Literature Festival in Denmark. & to Danish PEN, Anne G Munk, Jette, and Anne Mette for every possibility!

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African Writers Awards, African Teen Writers Awards, and Wakini Kuria Prize for Children’s Literature Winners Unveiled (@AWC_2024 Writers Space Africa) Congratulations to all winners, especially our poetry editor, Gabriel Awuah Mainoo (Gabriel Awuah Mainoo) jaylit.com/african-writer…

TIER 2 JUDGES Gabriel Awuah Mainoo (Poetry), Deborah Oluniran-Adeniyi (Fiction), Iruoma Chukwuemeka (Non-Fiction).

To all the brilliant writers we featured on our Spotlight series in 2024, we say a very big THANK YOU! Mustapha Enesi ML Kejera 😔 Frances Ogamba Joie Oyindamola Shoola Gabriel Awuah Mainoo Abu Bakr As-Siddique Peter Ngĩla Nzeli Natasha Omokhodion Looking forward to more exciting features in 2025!

According to editors of Nenta Journal; “It is a delight we get to publish you as part of our first, in our goal to champion Ghanaian Literature”; I’m entranced to have a poem marking this noteworthy milestone with Brian Gyamfi & other writers. Hope you consider checking it out.

"this is the night of moulting & new revolutions/ yesterday was the last day of your life, you said that, sniffing the oyster stew" —Gabriel Awuah Mainoo [in the paw of the night]

"today you are the size of rain in the clouds// i only identify you// after you gather in my hands// tenderly, i throw you back into the skies// survive" —Gabriel Awuah Mainoo [The funeral director said h/is/er body didn’t check]

With light; Black History inspired and published in Journal of African Youth Literature!