Submissions

CURRENTLY, SUBMISSIONS ARE TEMPORARILY CLOSED.

Thank you for your interest in making a submission. We prefer reviews for mainstream literature Nigerian books. Essays can be on a wide-range of topics peculiar with the Nigerian (or African) art and literature sphere.

Kindly read our “about page” and Policy on Book Reviews below to understand what kind of writing we are looking for.

For fiction and poetry submissions, visit again for the submission window. And if you want to contribute to our work, visit our support page. Thank you.

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Policy on Book Reviews

We mostly entertain positive reviews.

We outline the following as the primary work in writing reviews:

Literary writing promoting art.
A corpus of literary criticism.
The archival and preservation of art.

To do so, we choose to celebrate art, appraising, rather than “criticise” (in its cruel connotation). We adopt Maria Popova’s proposition on criticism as celebration of good writing. Rather than write negative reviews of bad writing, we will choose the good to write about, which results in critiques more contributory and edifying to the overall corpus of literary criticism.◙