Timi Sanni
@timisanni
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The Ordinary Affair of Being Human (2025) @AkashicBooks/@AfricanPoetryBF • In: @The_Rumpus @BlackWarriorRev @CincinnReview @ndrmag
Joined April 2016
Hi guys, I have a story out—my first in two years! I'm so excited to share it with you all. It's an experimental fiction piece about a world where suddenly people's sins began to play over their heads in a hologram. It is published on @Iskanchipress
https://t.co/uhXNazoOlM
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"I will remove Jonah from the mouth of the whale & send him home with fish for dinner. See? that’s what holiness looks like between God & man." Me for @trampset
“In the logic of holiness, the straight tree gets cut before the crooked” Columnist @cornrowchuks with three poems today
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Congratulations to Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu who just won the Best International Fiction prize at the 2025 Sharjah International Book Fair for her breathtaking novel, The Creation of Half-Broken People!
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I wrote a collection of 10 short stories for my undergrad thesis but my dept thought it lazy work. Had issues defending cause of this & cried after because my work was looked down on. My supervisor, God bless her, encouraged me. Don’t care for the grades. I DID IT! @J_Chiemeke
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Hello guys, I am excited to let you know that the cover for my Sillerman winning collection “All that Refuses to Die” is out and available for preorder. Link: https://t.co/88z62aYQ8A You read more about it on Brittle Paper: https://t.co/u7wXV2SR36 Poems in Prairie Schooner.
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Some of your Nigerian literary critics don't care about our literary development. They are just obsessed with the image of advocacy. That is why they can cook up lies about a Nigerian novel just to have controversial talking points online. They are obsessed with the attention—
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I'm happy to share my new poem in the October/November issue of @TheLondonMag exploring the story of Eden. Kindly read & engage. Thank you.
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Don't miss it!🔥 One of the poems we'd be exploring include this poem by Timi Sanni and a host of others by John Donne, George Herbert and many more🫶🏾
2 DAYS TO DEADLINE!!! Registration Process: 1. Make a payment of N2, 000 to (8144618900. OPAY. RIDWAN FASASI). 2. Send the receipt of payment to (08144618900) on Whatsapp. 3. Once, it's confirmed, other details will be sent to you before the day of the workshop. REGISTER NOW!
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It is with much joy that I am pleased to announce that the Benin Arts and Book Festival kicks off her Rongo Artist Residency, that will span over the duration of three weeks. The residency will be covering writing , visual art and filmmaking.
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✨I'm proud to share that THE EDGE OF WATER has won the 2025 Westport Prize for Literature! The $10,000 prize honors "an original work of literary fiction that is both relevant and timeless." Thank you to the readers, judges, steering committee, and the Westport Library.✨
💐Congratulations @ogracebankole! WINNER 🏆2025 Westport Prize for Literature! https://t.co/nKXdx4GIvb
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Honoured to be announced winner of the Fiction Factory Poetry Prize 2025 for my poem "Phoenix Theorem" https://t.co/KeMUxttY0H I also have two poems in the "Bystander Effect" issue of The Poetry Club UDUS. Do be kind to my poems. ❤️ https://t.co/whEEqQhwRT
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Let's gooo! Submit! Submit! Submit!
Some good news: We are now a paying market, and we offer contributor copies annually! 🎉
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"Had I written this poem from there; god wouldn’t be unripe & absurd. I mean he flooded earth because men fucked men then saved one man in an ark whose generation continued to fuck men." Guys, i have some new poems and a mini interview. Kindly read & engage. Thank you.
“My mirror is the only artist that gets me.” @cornrowchuks’ latest column presents new poetry plus discussion on self-portraiture and why we write 🖤
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This week marks this start of my first semester as a MFA in Creative Writing student at the absolutely wonderful Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Grateful to the amazing people who were willing to write astonishing letters of recommendation for my sake. Go Salukis! ❤
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this was published months ago in The Good Life Review. gotten messages already from two strangers who were moved by it. how lucky we are to write poems at all...
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5 years ago, some of my paintings went viral and everything changed. Been meaning to write this for months now so here it is: A list of things I wish I knew starting up for any creative out there taking their first steps. Honestly, while I cringe at even thinking that I’m at a
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hey @grok according to your analysis, name 10 accounts in sequence who frequently visit my profile. Don't mention the person, just @.username and the rate of number of times a week visit the profile
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If you read one poem today, make it Chuks' beautiful poem on Ink, Sweat and Tears.
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The Artimetrics is building a vibrant community of musicians and poets! We’re getting them young. We’re getting them green. And we want them in numbers! #theartimetrics #whereartmeetsthenumbers #musicandpoetry
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Also other Muslim authors/writers/publishers to support: @inknest
@deenprogress
@mahmud0elsayed
@Thalib_Razi
@DreadUnderarm
@JibrilStevenson
@farhanashaikh
@hijabi_soldier And many more!! Either I can't tag certain people or they left X so sorry but there are waay more
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