Ekondo Review

A literary magazine for Efik-Ibibio arts and literature

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22 Contributors, One message: A Rising.

@michael_imossan, @jakkybeefive, @asarirl, @nkereuwxm, @bluetiphul @abasimaenyinn, @JoemarioU38615, @gwriting_plug , @JosiahIkpe...

Coming December 19.

Cover photo credit: @EstherUmoh10

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Congratulations to our poetry editor, Joemario Umana on making the shortlist of the 2026 Evaristo Prize.

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@michael_imossan The pleasure is ours.

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Happy Birthday to our Editorial Board Member, @michael_imossan.

Age gracefully, poet.

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Kindly join us as we celebrate Michael Imossan on his Birthday.

Come read your favourite Imossan poem.

https://t.co/QBPS3hdKs6

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We're still open

You have 21 more days to send us your work.

https://t.co/pcMIJnuHBp

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@KalahariReview Thank you, Kalahari

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@KalahariReview We're open for submissions for our second issue called “Ekong”—War. We seek poetry, fiction, essays, and arts that engage the Biafran war from an Efik-Ibibio perspective.

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"So they think my mother used my destiny to make money. Of all the damn things, dollars?"

Nkereuwem Albert || Fiction || Issue #1

https://t.co/tA4Z5pAG0g

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“There is nothing I can point at to prove my body’s insurrection. I am in a body like my first. No, this is not a body. This is a spirit, stripped of flesh.”

Gabrielle Emem Harry || Fiction || Issue #1

https://t.co/qAoxekcPwk

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@ColtanKubiangha @abasimaenyinn wetin be this? 🤣🤣🤣

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@izom_chisom Thank you, Chisom.

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@izom_chisom And like you've rightly said, the works aren't just enough out there and that's the gap we so badly want to bridge. It can't be achieved in years let alone in a single literary issue but at least, we'd contribute to that very archive no matter how small.

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@izom_chisom Oh. No. It's definitely not because you've not searched enough. It's because they are only a smattering. In the last 10 years, the most mainstream mention of the war from an Ibibio perspective is in Uwem Akpan's "New York, My Village” recently longlisted for the NLNG Prize.

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Call for Submissions

We are seeking poetry, fiction, essays, and visual art that engage the Biafran War (Nigerian Civil War) from an Efik–Ibibio perspective.

https://t.co/pcMIJnvfqX

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@thestripesmag Thank you, Stripes. 🫂

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@thestripesmag We open in 3 days from now. Our theme is "War". We need works around and about the Nigerian Civil War (Biafran War) from an Efik-Ibibio perspective.

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We congratulate Eliongema Udofia (@obongemem_001), our issue 1 contributor on winning the Joe Ushie Poetry Prize, 2026.

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“The priests had come last year while brother lay drunk,
they bound the spirit of drinking from his body.”

Abasiama Udom || Poetry || Issue #1

https://t.co/VpEJ3oLzyg

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@michael_imossan @AfricanPoetryBF @UnivNebPress @JoemarioU38615 The pleasure is ours, Michael.

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“I am more fascinated by your skin. Your skin… It’s a brilliant, china-like patina that hides many of your scars; those scars you don’t like to talk about.”

Eduek Moses || Nonfiction || Issue #1

https://t.co/0RB9bMzzSX