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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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poetry

September 2012

Crossing Over

Eleanor Rees

poetry

September 2012

As he sails the coracle of willow and skins his bird eyes mirror the moon behind cloud. Spring tide...

poetry

June 2016

from GERMINAL

Chloe Stopa-Hunt

poetry

June 2016

  1. Waste-Gold   These songs are waste-gold a matter of passing time together as we wait for night...

feature

February 2011

Red Shirts in Thailand

Sam Brown

feature

February 2011

The closest I had ever come to a protest was in 2003, in Bangkok, when I tried and failed...

 

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