Akuko Magazine Releases Shortlist Of 2021 Winners Of Its Literary Contest — Pawners Paper

Akuko Magazine Literary Contest released its list of winners and honourable mention for the 2020 literary contest

Akuko Magazine Releases Shortlist Of 2021 Winners Of Its Literary Contest

Akuko Magazine released its list of winners and honourable mention for the 2020 edition of Akiko Magazine Literary Contest

According to Akuko Magazine,  

Congratulations to our winners and honorable mentions!

It has been a difficult but rewarding judging process. This has been a thrilling journey from outpouring of over 500 works in response to our call for submission to the overwhelming support we received from the literary community in our quest for readers, editors and judges. We look forward to sharing our first issue with you.

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The Akuko Magazine Literary Contest features three sections for submission and in each, three winners were chosen while another four applicants were honourably mentioned for the participation in the competition.

Here are the list of the winners of the literary contest and their respective works in each section:

FICTION

—Youth, or 1918

RESOKETSWE MANENZHE

—Builder Hands

DAPHNE KIPLAGAT

—The Mad Men of Mashariki

EDITH MAGAK

NONFICTION

—Blackface In Nigeria

ADENIKE AKANDE

—Out Of Range

IFEANYICHUKWU EZE

—Say It...

PRINCESS EZEJI

POETRY

—the taste of our names, chronicle of rennaissance, sahara blues xiii

AJISE VINCENT

—at a table having drinks with my girls

HANEEFAH BELLO

—Blaise Pascal's principle of pressure... and other poems

OKOLI STEPHEN NONSO

Entrants with honourable mentions

FICTION

32 Rooms

OBINNA OBIOMA

Cormorant/Confluence/Crocodile

JASON MYKL SNYMAN

New Parents

CHIBUIKE OGBONNAYA

Windowseat

CHUKWUDUMEBI ONOH

NONFICTION

Insecure

ALAIN-JULES HIRWA

Our Parents Are Killing Us

ZIPAMO AKANYO

The Metamorphosis

HAJAARH MUHAMMAD BASHAR

We Are Strangers In This Land

ZENAS UBERE

POETRY

Displacement & Other Poems

OLAITAN JUNAID

time travel to the period of the first birth & other poems

PRAISE OSAWARU

The Ones

SOMTOCHUKWU IHEZUE

Point of No Return

AYOKUNLE SAMUEL BETIKU

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