Did you know the time it takes to drive thru your average car wash is how long it takes to read my new flash nonfiction essay out today from JAKE? jakethemag.com/the-egg-essay/

this, ladies & gentlemen is how you win an olympic gold. no VAR just social distancing. covid protocols highly observed

Thrilled to have a flash piece up ELJ Editions . emergeliteraryjournal.com/after-the-brea…

I had a wonderful conversation with Shafinaaz Hassim this evening on BookBytes Salaamedia. 🤍 We talked about Daughter Wound (Hazel Press, 2024) and I read one of my favourite pieces from the book. Watch the video here: youtube.com/live/Oox4Hamle…

❛ Some will successfully mate, others will die in flamboyant car crashes / graduation week... Here's Arne Weingart's Moth Nature Writing Prize-winning poem 'Cicadas'. There's still time to enter this year. Closing 30 September. 🦟 bit.ly/mothnature23

Hey poets, it’s #SealeyChallenge season. 📚 Here are 7 chapbooks by African poets we think you should add to your TBR list. 👇🏾 1️⃣ Wreck - Michael Akuchie (Michael is writing again!!!).

2️⃣ Speaking In Code, APBF (Tisa) - Phodiso Modirwa (Motshola Pholo ).

3️⃣ Cadaver of Red Roses- Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi (Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi (Free Palestine 🇵🇸 ✊🏽) ).

4️⃣ Spells of my Name - I. S. Jones (I.S. Jones 🦌🌑 ).

5️⃣ In The Nude - Logan February.

6️⃣ The Origin of Name, APBF (Saba) - Adedayo Adeyemi Agarau (Adedayo Agarau ).

7️⃣ No Home In This Land - Rasaq Malik G.

For David Frum, “the debate over Alice Munro was not ‘How could a great artist do such a bad thing?’ It was, ‘This bad thing at last enables me to articulate why I never thought Alice Munro was a great artist in the first place.’” Read more: theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

We are delighted to bring to you another edition of Long Talk, our series of conversations between writers and thinkers across Africa and the Black diaspora. For this edition, join Pemi Aguda and Uche Okonkwo as they discuss form and destiny in relation to the short story.

Sturge Town: Poems by Kwame Dawes worldliteraturetoday.org/2024/january/s…

We are now accepting submissions for Volume 11 of AKÉ Review for #AkeFest24. We invite you to submit works that relate to the theme “Finding Freedom.” Selected works will be featured in AKÉ Review. Please ensure you follow all submission guidelines. The deadline is September 12.

Surreal business! I'm so excited to be part of this year's cohort 💃 💃 💃 Packing up all my poems to go work and have a good old creative time!!!

#sealeychallenge The Sealey Challenge New Orleans time slow roll: Song of My Softening, by SOMS out now! 👇🏾 | @omotarajames.bsky.social Alice James Books

Tired of spending hours searching for #litmags that are open for submissions? Save time and check out my weekly roundup! Follow me to get this list every Sunday. Check out the blog on my new website 👇🏻 thatbookchikka.com/61-lit-mags-op… #writingcommunity #writerslift

When I need an example of a poem that does something specific, my mind BLANKS. What are your fav prose poems that use slashes in place of line breaks?