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CREATIVE WRITING CONTRIBUTORS
Poetry
First Prize Winner—Poetry
Oladosu Michael Emerald (he/him) is the author of the poetry book, "Every Little
Thing That Moves," an art editor at Surging Tide magazine, a digital/musical/visual
artist, a photographer, a footballer, a boxer, and a political scientist. He teaches art at the
Arnheim Art Gallery to kids and adults, Young Artists Art Hub, an Art Instructor at the
Anasa Collection Art Gallery, and is a volunteer art instructor at Status Dignus Child
Rescue Home and Ibeere Otun Initiative. He is a Pioneer Fellow of the Muktar Aliyu Art
Residency. His works have been published or forthcoming in many magazines and won
numerous awards in writing and art; a few to mention: winner of Garden Party Collective
Neurodivergent Poetry contest, winner of O昀昀 the Limit Art contest, winner of Sprinng
Annual Poetry Contest, second runner-up in Fire昀氀ies poetry contest, Lolwe, Better Than
Starbucks, Ake Review, Daily Times Nigeria, Nigerian Tribune, The Guardian News,
Flash Frog, Blanket Gravity, Paper Lantern Lit, The Temz Review, and elsewhere. He's
a man who does not know how to give up, and art chose him before he existed. Say hi to
him on Twitter @garricologist and Instagram @garrycologist.
Runner-up Winner— Poetry
Onyekachi Iloh is a writer, poet and visual artist currently exploring photography as
a means of documentation and the re-examination of sight. His work has appeared or
forthcoming in Barren Magazine, Welter, Singapore Unbound, Blue Marble Review,
Palette Poetry and elsewhere.
Runner-up Winner—Poetry
A 2024 National Poetry Series 昀椀nalist, Jen Karetnick is the author of 12 collections of
poetry, including Inheritance with a High Error Rate (January 2024), winner of the 2022
Cider Press Review Book Award and semi-昀椀nalist for the PSV 2025 North American
Book Awards. Forthcoming books include What Forges Us Steel: The Judge Judy Poems
(Alternating Current Press, 2025) and Domiciliary (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2026). The
co-founder and managing editor of SWWIM Every Day, she has recent or forthcoming
work in Cimarron Review, NELLE, Pleiades, Plume, Seneca Review, Shenandoah, Sixth
Finch, swamp pink, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. See jkaretnick.com.
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