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Vanessa Onwuemezi
Vanessa Onwuemezi is a writer and poet living in London. Her work has appeared in Prototype Magazine, Frieze, and The Literary Consultancy. Her story 'At the Heart of Things' won the The White Review Short Story Prize 2019.

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Bright Spaces

Fiction

June 2020

Vanessa Onwuemezi

Fiction

June 2020

The cat’s paws brush through the letterbox, looking for some jellied meat or an opening in the family. Cat pushes a letter through the...
At the Heart of Things

Prize Winner

Issue No. 26

Vanessa Onwuemezi

Prize Winner

Issue No. 26

there is no meaning. Hanging a picture on the wall I           give           a little too much force to my thumb skin breaks under pressure...

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feature

December 2011

Egyptian Revolution: Bloody Wednesday (2 February 2011)

Omar Robert Hamilton

feature

December 2011

Almost one year on from the first battles in Tahrir Square, Egypt’s future remains uncertain. Many Egyptians believe that,...

Prize Entry

Issue No. 17

Grace

Sophie Mackintosh

Prize Entry

Issue No. 17

14. It comes for me in the middle of the day when I am preparing lunch, quartering a tomato...

Art

October 2015

Licence to Play

Thirza Wakefield

Art

October 2015

In his 1992 essay ‘In Search of the Centaur’, the writer and critic Phillip Lopate described the essay-film as...

 

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