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Victoria Adukwei Bulley
VICTORIA ADUKWEI BULLEY is a poet, writer and filmmaker. She is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, and has held artistic residencies internationally in the US, Brazil and at the V&A Museum in London. A Complete Works and Instituto Sacatar fellow, her pamphlet Girl B (Akashic) forms part of the 2017 New-Generation African Poets series. She is a doctoral student at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she is the recipient of a Technē studentship for doctoral research in Creative Writing.

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On Water

Essay

Issue No. 29

Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Essay

Issue No. 29

& we say to her what have you done with our kin that you swallowed? & she says that was ages ago, you’ve drunk...

Interview

Issue No. 26

Interview with Saidiya Hartman

Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Interview

Issue No. 26

The first time I encountered Saidiya Hartman, she was a voice in salt., an award-winning play by artist and...

I am standing in front of a room full of people reading out a story The room is dark I am wearing a head torch so I can read the story My hands are shaking The story is about me getting drunk and having sex with a person A lot of people in the room know about me getting drunk and having sex with a person I did not know the name of the person I had sex with   After I have read the story I wander round the room and don’t know what to say I have already said over a thousand words in a row Sometimes when I approach a group of people one of them will say something positive and either clasp my arm briefly or touch the upper section of my arm I am approaching as many groups of people as possible so I get the highest number of positive things said to me I am feeling happy This is partly because I have been told a lot of positive things but also because I have drunk around five bottles of beer The number of people in the room is decreasing The amount of beer in the room has already decreased to zero This is worrying as the two main things I want are alcohol and people   There is a person I want a lot standing and talking about some objects I arranged on and near a wall I think that I should go and talk to the person If I crashed into the person while we were both in cars I would definitely talk to the person about the arrangement of solid waves in the shell of their vehicle, perhaps implying that they should permit the serendipitous beauty of the incident to assuage their feelings I go to talk to the person The person did not see me say over a thousand words in a row so I feel like they are less likely to object to me talking to them The person does not know that I arranged the objects on the wall but expresses

Contributor

October 2018

Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Contributor

October 2018

VICTORIA ADUKWEI BULLEY is a poet, writer and filmmaker. She is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, and...

Nafissa Thompson-Spires’s ‘Heads of the Colored People’

Book Review

October 2018

Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Book Review

October 2018

Somewhere on the internet is a two-hour video of a lecture by the late writer and filmmaker Kathleen Collins, author of the short story...

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fiction

April 2013

The Final Journals of Dr Peter Lurneman

Luke Neima

fiction

April 2013

Editors’ note: After several months of debate we have decided to publish the succeeding text, a reproduction of the...

feature

September 2013

A God In Spite of His Nose

Anna Della Subin

feature

September 2013

‘Paradise is a person. Come into this world.’ — Charles Olson   In the darkness of the temple, footsteps...

fiction

April 2013

How to be an Astronaut

J. D. A. Winslow

fiction

April 2013

I am standing in front of a room full of people reading out a story. The room is dark....

 

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