SPROUTERS is an annual mentorship project, running from January to December, launched to groom Nigerian teens and young adult female writers on the art of creative writing. To celebrate the recent upgrade of our website, www.sproutersng.com, we are introducing WIN A FREE EDIT. WIN A FREE EDIT is a platform for all writers who do … Continue reading Call for Submissions: Sprouter’s Win A Free Edit Competition
Mazi Nze raised his children the only way he knew how. Everyone knew children were born with the demons from their previous lives. Without the stick to drive them out, how would those spirits bow to authority? On his sixtieth birthday, Mazi Nze woke up content that he had done his job as a … Continue reading The Way to Say Happy Birthday
SPROUTERS is now accepting applications for her 2012 online mentorship program. We would like to invite all interested teenage girls, between the age of ten and twenty, who have a passion for creative writing, to submit an application for Nigeria’s pioneer online mentorship program. This is a great opportunity for young writers at any stage … Continue reading Call For Application: Sprouters’ Free Mentorship Program
SPROUTERS is an annual mentorship project, running from January to December, that was launched to groom young Nigerian girl writers on the art of creative writing. Through a maximum mentorship ratio of 1:5, girls between the ages of ten and eighteen will have their creative talents harnessed by experienced female writers. SPROUTERS is non-profit, therefore is … Continue reading Introducing SPROUTERS . . . grooming young Nigerian girl writers
While I’m still shopping around the novel I’ve posted here (excerpts) a couple of times, I’m going ahead with another project. It’s funny, but starting a new story is just as hard as editing an old story. Actually, it’s harder. Cos you don’t want to make the mistakes you made before, so you’re under a … Continue reading Changing Scenes – Excerpt From Chapter One
As I lay on my fiancé’s bed that night, I became worried about meeting him. Zimuzo was ten years older than me, and we had scarcely exchanged more than ‘amam ma’ between us since I grew breasts. Before then he had loved to tease me and call me isi-opioro. He would point me out to … Continue reading A New Cloth Induces Urine
I have been seriously missing in action from Naija Stories. I think the last post I made was in early 2010, is I’m not mistaken. Oh well, life has been seriously getting in the way. But, most accurately, I have been cooking. Like, seriously cooking the novel I hope to publish in the nearest future. … Continue reading The Water, Which Boils, Does Not Forget Its Home
Pages: 322 Publisher: JALAA Writers Collections ISBN: 9789789125319 When I began reading Blackbird, my first thoughts were ‘oh no! Not another social-responsibility story about Nigeria.” It’s probably just me, but it seems as though there is an overdose of ‘the things that’s wrong with Nigeria’ messages on social networks, music, and online newspapers. Not that … Continue reading Book review – Jude Dibia’s Blackbird
There were five of us that headed for the stream that hot afternoon. Mixed-raced Chibu, who came in from Abuja the week before – who would rather whistle strange-sounding tunes and giggle than participate when we argued at the top of our voices. But he knew things that the rest of us loud lot didn’t. … Continue reading Reliving Christmas
The next day is very busy for me. Fridays are half-days, so I have so much work crammed into the five hours I have to be at the office. From the moment I drop my bag on my desk, I am running around like a rabbit attending to deadlines. There are calls to make, invitations … Continue reading How Many Frogs Shall A Princess Kiss – Episode 4
I always knew I am beautiful. From the time I was three, I had been turning heads. If there was ever an impromptu beauty pageant at a birthday party, I was picked to wear the crown. There was no contest; that was how good I looked. Everybody kind of expected me to turn as I … Continue reading How Many Frogs Shall A Princess Kiss?
It was their misery party. As a ritual, the three friends met at least once a month for it. Isioma, the media consultant with a PR and advertising firm, who had made her way through life by her wits and beauty. Indeed it was a little known fact at her office that she had no … Continue reading The Cause of Husbands
“Paul, please. Why won’t you try and hear me out? Why don’t you even try small?” she said, sniffling. Her accent had changed to sound more ‘white’. That was how I know when Paul was calling. I glared at Lami. What is the matter with this girl, eh? Everyday she and this Paul guy? What … Continue reading A’ma Hustler
We were in the hotel room, Emenike’s gift to me. Our wedding reception had ended barely an hour earlier, and most of our invitees, those who had come all the way from Agbawka and Umunachi, were putting up in our house at the college quarters. There were over twenty of them, most of them would … Continue reading Life Had Other Plans – An Excerpt