Okwudili Nebeolisa

What a short stunner by Ross Gay!!

Cheers for MFA student @okwudilin.bsky.social!
#UMNProud @lambdaliterary.org

Autumn House is excited to announce the winner of our 2025 Nonfiction Prize: I Am Mostly Bad Blood by Starr Davis, selected by May-lee Chai!

We're honored to share this book with the world in October 2026.

#nonfiction #bookprize #publishing #memoir

Huge congratulations to all the CLMP members shortlisted— @unboundedition.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social
@blacklawrence.bsky.social @fourwaybooks.bsky.social @autumnhousepress.bsky.social @coffeehousepress.bsky.social @yesyesbooks.bsky.social @neonhemlock.bsky.social & more!

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Huge congratulations to @okwudilin.bsky.social, whose stunning debut collection TERMINAL MALADIES has been named a 2025 Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry!

We're so proud to see his work recognized by @lambdaliterary.org and deeply appreciate their support!

I feel so honored to see that Terminal Maladies is a finalist for the @lambdaliterary.org Awards. My sincere gratitude to the judges, to my publisher @autumnhousepress.bsky.social and to everyone who has read this book.

The Asian Literary Agency The Asian Literary Agency is thrilled to announce that V.V. Ganeshananthan's award-winning novel "Brotherless Night", winner of The Asian Prize for Fiction 2023, will be translated into Sinhala by...

Brotherless Night will be translated into Sinhala!

This Saturday (07/19) at the Castle Shannon Library from 1:00 – 3:00 PM, hear Clare Beams, Sherrie Flick, Adriana E. Ramírez, and Lisa Slage Robinson at the Summer Literary Festival.

Authors will read from their latest works, followed by Q&A and a book signing.

Free and open to the public!

Thank you for your kind words, Shashanna

Volume 74, Numbers 1 & 2 Shenandoah has been publishing great writing for 75 years. Located at Washington and Lee University, the magazine is part of the English Department and is a tool used to teach students the art and cra...

Shenandoah’s 75th anniversary double issue just dropped! www.shenandoahliterary.org/74-1-2/#poetry Amazing poems by @janezwart.bsky.social @sallypoet.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @carlosaglive.bsky.social @rosswhite.com @casswhit.bsky.social @darleneanitascott.bsky.social 1/2

@rosebudbenoni.bsky.social @haydensaunier.bsky.social @okwudilin.bsky.social @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social @beingpoetry.bsky.social @emmaneale.bsky.social & so many others! 2/2

I have a poem in the 75th anniversary issue of Shenandoah. My sincere gratitude to Beth Staples and Lesley Wheeler for including my work in this milestone issue.
www.shenandoahliterary.org/74-1-2/on-th...

"The readers should be ready to shed some tears." Thanks to @southeastreview.bsky.social and Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé for this lovely review of @okwudilin.bsky.social's collection TERMINAL MALADIES!

The wonderment in an Andrew Hemmert poem spreads far beyond topic or meditation, far beyond moment, era, or epoch, beyond—even—the gravity of our home planet. The joy here is that the poet fixes his lens on everyday experience and chases meaning wherever it takes him, wherever it might be found. From the microscopic to the astral, No Longer at this Address is twinned with a kind, ravishing loneliness and humane beatitude reserved for those artmakers who travel as deeply within as they do from one sentence to the next. A true delight. Michael McGriff, author of Inquest and Angel Sharpening its Beak

In advance of the book's pub date in late October, I'm going to periodically share the blurbs I've received for No Longer at This Address. First up is this wonderfully generous blurb from Michael McGriff. Pre-order link in bio!

When anyone asks you why even write poetry:

COVER REVEAL!
My eighth collection of poetry, NMLCT, will be published September 02, 2025 by ECW Press. I'm thrilled to be able to share the cover with you, and especially thrilled that it features art by renowned Canadian sculptor David Altmejd.

Fort Jabalia: Fourteen ways of looking at white Evergreen Review

“The word ‘white’ is a code, the way the word ‘fascism’ is, words to try to signal emergency near damages too deep and wide to describe.”

Up now: “Fort Jabalia: Fourteen ways of looking at white” by Suzanne Gardinier. Art by @jeanmariecasbarian.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/fort-ja...

Roberta Flack, Virtuoso Singer-Pianist Behind ‘Killing Me Softly,’ Dies at 88 (Gift Article) With majestic anthems like “Killing Me Softly” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” Ms. Flack, a former schoolteacher, became one of the most widely heard artists of the 1970s.

This a remarkably respectful and insightful obituary for one of the all-time greats. "People who did not know that ["Making Love] was about love between two men loved that song . . . Love is love. Between a man and a woman, between two men, between two women. Love is universal, like music.”

Announcing the Finalists for 2025 It is with enormous pleasure that we announce the finalists for the eleventh annual New England Review Award for Emerging Writers.

Announcing the finalists for the 11th annual NER award for Emerging Writers: Temperance Aghamohammadi, Cristina Alexandra Pop, Zen Ren, Nathan Curtis Roberts, Laura Schmitt, & Tianyi.

The winner will be announced in March.

Congratulations to all six finalists!

www.nereview.com/2025/02/24/a...

It was a good mail day! Deep thanks to Rick Barot and @kathyfagan.bsky.social for their endorsements, as well as to @kevinprufer.bsky.social, @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social, Hadara Bar-Nadav, and Randall Mann for their edits, advice, and support. And thanks, as ever, to @milkweededitions.bsky.social.

A Reading List for Black History Month 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses For Black History Month, observed annually during the month of February, we asked our members—independent presses, literary journals, and others—to share with us some of the books and magazines they r...

Thanks to @clmporg.bsky.social for featuring TERMINAL MALADIES by Okwudili Nebeolisa (@okwudilin.bsky.social) in their "Reading List for Black History Month 2025"! What an amazing line-up!

www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

ANOTHER YEAR COME BY WS MERWIN

I have nothing new to ask of you,
Future, heaven of the poor.
I am still wearing the same things.

I am still begging the same question
By the same light,
Eating the same stone,

And the hands of the clock still knock without entering.

You can
make the stars spell out
anything if you stare
long and hard enough
— Carl Phillips

Me: Are you from Nigeria
Uber Driver: Yes. Beautiful country.
Me: Are you sure you're from Nigeria? A Nigerian won't call Nigeria a ‘Beautiful country’. It's not that it's not beautiful.
Uber Driver: 😂😂 No I'm not from Nigeria. I'm from Somalia.

This is the logo for NER's Staging Style craft series.

Introducing Staging Style: A Quarterly Online Craft Series

We are seeking brief essays, 900-2,000 words, that trouble the conventional prescriptiveness of “craft." Edited by Leslie Sainz.

Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis. Learn more: newenglandreview.submittable.com/submit/31775...

I’m excited to read these debut novels this year.

Screenshot of post from Jhalak Prize with following text: Authors, agents, publishers! We are accepting submissions for our #JhalakPrize25 awards: 1.    Jhalak Prose Prize 2.    Jhalak Poetry Prize 3.    Jhalak Children’s & Young Adult Prize Deadline: 13 December 2024 Send us your fabulous books!

Authors, agents, publishers! Final week to submit books to #JhalakPrize25 awards:

1.    Jhalak Prose Prize
2.    Jhalak Poetry Prize
3.    Jhalak Children’s & Young Adult Prize

Deadline: 13 December 2024

Send in those fabulous books!

I couldn't understand what an editor had scribbled something on the rejection slip, so I took a picture of it and asked an online site that decodes handwriting to tell me what had been written and it told me exactly what the editor had written, even with punctuations. This is when I love AI.