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Jekwu Anyaegbuna
Jekwu Anyaegbuna graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, where he has also been a fully-funded researcher and an Associate Tutor in Literature and Creative Writing. A fiction fellow at the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation for Creative Writing, he won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa. His writing has appeared in Granta, Ambit, Magma, The Massachusetts Review, Transition, Prairie Schooner, among other publications. He lives in England.

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The Professor of Loss

Prize Entry

September 2022

Jekwu Anyaegbuna

Prize Entry

September 2022

The Professor stormed into the brothel’s reception hall in the evening and kicked away our singing radio. It flew through the air, slammed against...

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fiction

June 2013

What We Did After We Lost 100 Years' Wealth in 24 Months

Agri Ismaïl

fiction

June 2013

‘World finance had, in 2008, a near-death experience.’   The words belong to a partner of a renowned international...

poetry

April 2014

Lives of the Saints

Luke Neima

poetry

April 2014

‘I’m tending to this dead tree,’ he tells me. Last time he was rolling the hard rocks down into...

feature

October 2012

Pressed Up Against the Immediate

Rye Dag Holmboe

feature

October 2012

The author Philip Pullman recently criticised the overuse of the present tense in contemporary literature, a criticism he stretched...

 

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