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Akpata Magazine is open to: ✍🏽 fiction 📖 nonfiction 🕯️ poetry 🗺️ visual art Give us something that lingers long after the final line. Submit now! akpatamag.top/submit/

Some stories are too heavy for your Notes app. Some poems are begging to leave the Google Doc. Let them breathe. Let them speak. Submit to Akpata. 🔗akpatamag.top/submit

We're super excited to share the cover of our Issue 001 with you and give you a little peek into what we've been working on for months! This issue explores everything it means to be a youth in Nigeria and features interesting think pieces. Cover: Photographed by GDV

If we recognize that the world is continually evolving and bringing us to a point where these exchanges can happen, then poetry could help us to not only contend with our realities but also seek solutions outside of where we call home. - Abu Bakr As-Siddique akpatamag.top/2024/12/27/sym…

When Mum broke into tears in the supermarket, in front of the spice shelf, I engulfed her in a hug and shielded her pain from the world. I said, ‘Papa is in a better place. He’ll want us to be happy, so let’s try.’ akpatamag.top/2025/03/29/a-h…

Sometimes the best way through it is to give myself permission to write badly, letting go of perfectionism to rediscover flow - Joemario Umana akpatamag.top/2024/12/29/the…

When you hang around people for too long, they get all of their business in your nose until there’s no space for yours and you can’t breathe. - James-Ibe Chinaza akpatamag.top/2024/09/03/goi…

"Remember I told you she caught me kissing a boy when I was 7? And there was this time when she took me from church to church to pray the gayness away. If she doesn’t realise the truth, then she is lying to herself. Mothers always know." - Theophilus Mshelia Sokuma akpatamag.top/2024/09/01/cat…

You watched Odeneho sleep. The young man was well-built with a thicket of hair all over his body. Your fingers pulsated with the urge to stroke the glistening hair that shook under the breeze of the standing fan that hovered over your beds -Rigger Riggy akpatamag.top/2024/09/01/the…

Don't ever self-reject. Most times, the stories you think aren't good enough are the VERY ONES that get accepted! Maybe it's because perfection has nothing to do with what makes a good story.

We've sent feedback to a batch of submissions sent in June and will share more in the coming days. The entries were absolutely stunning! We're gutted we can't publish them all. Our submission window remains open until we reach 300 subs (which happen quite soon!)

Omg, it's Monday evening and Lagos Doesn't Hear You When You Scream is live on my substack. Read now. 👇 ikechukwuhenry.substack.com/p/lagos-doesnt… ¿𝔤𝔦𝔯𝔩𝔲𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔯𝔲𝔭𝔱𝔢𝔡🪷 #writing #writersoftwitter #WriterCommunity #WritingLife #writing #WritingCommunity

5 Ways to Get Your Writing Published: 1) Craft a story that grips. 2) Edit ruthlessly. 3) Submit to beta-readers and utilize feedback 4) Submit to lit mags like Akpata Mag (we’re open now!). 5) Keep writing, no matter what. Ready to share? #WritingTips

5 Ways to Get Your Writing Published: 1) Craft a story that grips. 2) Edit ruthlessly. 3) Submit to beta-readers and utilize feedback 4) Submit to lit mags like Akpata Mag (we’re open now!). 5) Keep writing, no matter what. Ready to share? #WritingTips