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SINE QUA NON
CREATIVE WRITING CONTRIBUTORS
Poetry
First Prize Winner—Poetry
Nnamdi Ndiolo writes poetry from Port-Harcourt when he isn’t pretending to be a chef,
expecting Grammys from singing in the shower, re-reading Harry Potter, or day-dreaming
himself the Pulitzer. Voice-over artist, Finalist for the Porter House Review Editor’s Prize
2026, Finalist for the Brooklyn Poets Winter Fellowship 2026, Finalist for the Alpine
Fellowship Poetry Prize 2025, the Ko昀椀 Awoonor Poetry Prize and Winner of the Lucky
Je昀昀erson Poetry Contest 2025, he explores the intersection of the body, faith, grief, identity, sexuality, violence and how language could restore dignity to what the world attempts
to discard. Read him in New Orleans Review, Palette Poetry, Poetry Column, OnlyPoems.
Find him @mirrorofbryan and @昀椀relord_bryan.
Runner-Up—Poetry
Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi, a Cave Canem Fellow 2025, is a poet, a multidisciplinary artist,
and a medical laboratory scientist from Bobi, Nigeria. She is the author of the chapbooks
Cadaver of Red Roses (2024), which won the 2024 Derricotte/Eady Chapbook Prize, and
Uncensored Snapshots (2025). Zaynab is a Literary Arts MFA candidate at Brown University, beginning in Spring 2026. @ZainabBobi and Instagram @zaynab_iliyasu_bobi.
Runner-Up—Poetry
Meredith Raine Olsson is a current MFA candidate in poetry at Boston University. They
have previously been published in Midwest Quarterly.
Contributors
Anne Marie Wells (she/they) is a queer award-winning poet, playwright, memoirist, and
oral storyteller. She is the author of two children’s books—Mommy, Why Am I a Bird?
(Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2015) and Underwater Explorers & Rescuers
(Ethical Seafood Research Publishing, 2025)—and two collections of poetry—Survived
By (Curious Corvid Publishing, 2023) and Mother, (v) (Cinnamon Press, 2024). Her book
of writing prompts, Write Some Cool Sh!t, was published in November 2025 by Star Belt
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