Okwudili Nebeolisa
@okwudilin.bsky.social
Writer.
📕: Terminal Maladies (@autumnhousepress.bsky.social, 2024)
nebeolisa.com
Poetry editor @ Post Road Magazine
MFA ’22 @iowawriterswksp.bsky.social
MFA ’26 @umnenglish.bsky.social
📕: Terminal Maladies (@autumnhousepress.bsky.social, 2024)
nebeolisa.com
Poetry editor @ Post Road Magazine
MFA ’22 @iowawriterswksp.bsky.social
MFA ’26 @umnenglish.bsky.social
What a short stunner by Ross Gay!!
August 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
What a short stunner by Ross Gay!!
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I feel so honored to see that Terminal Maladies is a finalist for the @lambdaliterary.org Awards. My sincere gratitude to the judges, to my publisher @autumnhousepress.bsky.social and to everyone who has read this book.
August 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Autumn House is excited to announce the winner of our 2025 Nonfiction Prize: I Am Mostly Bad Blood by Starr Davis, selected by May-lee Chai!
We're honored to share this book with the world in October 2026.
#nonfiction #bookprize #publishing #memoir
We're honored to share this book with the world in October 2026.
#nonfiction #bookprize #publishing #memoir
July 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Autumn House is excited to announce the winner of our 2025 Nonfiction Prize: I Am Mostly Bad Blood by Starr Davis, selected by May-lee Chai!
We're honored to share this book with the world in October 2026.
#nonfiction #bookprize #publishing #memoir
We're honored to share this book with the world in October 2026.
#nonfiction #bookprize #publishing #memoir
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Huge congratulations to all the CLMP members shortlisted— @unboundedition.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social
@blacklawrence.bsky.social @fourwaybooks.bsky.social @autumnhousepress.bsky.social @coffeehousepress.bsky.social @yesyesbooks.bsky.social @neonhemlock.bsky.social & more!
@blacklawrence.bsky.social @fourwaybooks.bsky.social @autumnhousepress.bsky.social @coffeehousepress.bsky.social @yesyesbooks.bsky.social @neonhemlock.bsky.social & more!
We are thrilled to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards! lambdaliterary.org/2025/07/anno...
Announcing the Finalists for the 37th Annual Lambda Literary Awards
This year marks 37 years
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July 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Huge congratulations to all the CLMP members shortlisted— @unboundedition.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social
@blacklawrence.bsky.social @fourwaybooks.bsky.social @autumnhousepress.bsky.social @coffeehousepress.bsky.social @yesyesbooks.bsky.social @neonhemlock.bsky.social & more!
@blacklawrence.bsky.social @fourwaybooks.bsky.social @autumnhousepress.bsky.social @coffeehousepress.bsky.social @yesyesbooks.bsky.social @neonhemlock.bsky.social & more!
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I feel so honored to see that Terminal Maladies is a finalist for the @lambdaliterary.org Awards. My sincere gratitude to the judges, to my publisher @autumnhousepress.bsky.social and to everyone who has read this book.
July 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
🎉🎉🎉
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Huge congratulations to @okwudilin.bsky.social, whose stunning debut collection TERMINAL MALADIES has been named a 2025 Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry!
We're so proud to see his work recognized by @lambdaliterary.org and deeply appreciate their support!
We're so proud to see his work recognized by @lambdaliterary.org and deeply appreciate their support!
July 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Huge congratulations to @okwudilin.bsky.social, whose stunning debut collection TERMINAL MALADIES has been named a 2025 Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry!
We're so proud to see his work recognized by @lambdaliterary.org and deeply appreciate their support!
We're so proud to see his work recognized by @lambdaliterary.org and deeply appreciate their support!
I feel so honored to see that Terminal Maladies is a finalist for the @lambdaliterary.org Awards. My sincere gratitude to the judges, to my publisher @autumnhousepress.bsky.social and to everyone who has read this book.
July 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I feel so honored to see that Terminal Maladies is a finalist for the @lambdaliterary.org Awards. My sincere gratitude to the judges, to my publisher @autumnhousepress.bsky.social and to everyone who has read this book.
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Brotherless Night will be translated into Sinhala!
The Asian Literary Agency
The Asian Literary Agency is thrilled to announce that V.V. Ganeshananthan's award-winning novel "Brotherless Night", winner of The Asian Prize for Fiction 2023, will be translated into Sinhala by...
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July 23, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Brotherless Night will be translated into Sinhala!
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This Saturday (07/19) at the Castle Shannon Library from 1:00 – 3:00 PM, hear Clare Beams, Sherrie Flick, Adriana E. Ramírez, and Lisa Slage Robinson at the Summer Literary Festival.
Authors will read from their latest works, followed by Q&A and a book signing.
Free and open to the public!
Authors will read from their latest works, followed by Q&A and a book signing.
Free and open to the public!
July 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This Saturday (07/19) at the Castle Shannon Library from 1:00 – 3:00 PM, hear Clare Beams, Sherrie Flick, Adriana E. Ramírez, and Lisa Slage Robinson at the Summer Literary Festival.
Authors will read from their latest works, followed by Q&A and a book signing.
Free and open to the public!
Authors will read from their latest works, followed by Q&A and a book signing.
Free and open to the public!
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Shenandoah’s 75th anniversary double issue just dropped! www.shenandoahliterary.org/74-1-2/#poetry Amazing poems by @janezwart.bsky.social @sallypoet.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @carlosaglive.bsky.social @rosswhite.com @casswhit.bsky.social @darleneanitascott.bsky.social 1/2
Volume 74, Numbers 1 & 2
Shenandoah has been publishing great writing for 75 years. Located at Washington and Lee University, the magazine is part of the English Department and is a tool used to teach students the art and cra...
www.shenandoahliterary.org
June 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Shenandoah’s 75th anniversary double issue just dropped! www.shenandoahliterary.org/74-1-2/#poetry Amazing poems by @janezwart.bsky.social @sallypoet.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @carlosaglive.bsky.social @rosswhite.com @casswhit.bsky.social @darleneanitascott.bsky.social 1/2
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@rosebudbenoni.bsky.social @haydensaunier.bsky.social @okwudilin.bsky.social @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social @beingpoetry.bsky.social @emmaneale.bsky.social & so many others! 2/2
June 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I have a poem in the 75th anniversary issue of Shenandoah. My sincere gratitude to Beth Staples and Lesley Wheeler for including my work in this milestone issue.
www.shenandoahliterary.org/74-1-2/on-th...
www.shenandoahliterary.org/74-1-2/on-th...
June 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I have a poem in the 75th anniversary issue of Shenandoah. My sincere gratitude to Beth Staples and Lesley Wheeler for including my work in this milestone issue.
www.shenandoahliterary.org/74-1-2/on-th...
www.shenandoahliterary.org/74-1-2/on-th...
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"The readers should be ready to shed some tears." Thanks to @southeastreview.bsky.social and Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé for this lovely review of @okwudilin.bsky.social's collection TERMINAL MALADIES!
June 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"The readers should be ready to shed some tears." Thanks to @southeastreview.bsky.social and Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé for this lovely review of @okwudilin.bsky.social's collection TERMINAL MALADIES!
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In advance of the book's pub date in late October, I'm going to periodically share the blurbs I've received for No Longer at This Address. First up is this wonderfully generous blurb from Michael McGriff. Pre-order link in bio!
June 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
In advance of the book's pub date in late October, I'm going to periodically share the blurbs I've received for No Longer at This Address. First up is this wonderfully generous blurb from Michael McGriff. Pre-order link in bio!
When anyone asks you why even write poetry:
June 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
When anyone asks you why even write poetry:
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COVER REVEAL!
My eighth collection of poetry, NMLCT, will be published September 02, 2025 by ECW Press. I'm thrilled to be able to share the cover with you, and especially thrilled that it features art by renowned Canadian sculptor David Altmejd.
My eighth collection of poetry, NMLCT, will be published September 02, 2025 by ECW Press. I'm thrilled to be able to share the cover with you, and especially thrilled that it features art by renowned Canadian sculptor David Altmejd.
April 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
COVER REVEAL!
My eighth collection of poetry, NMLCT, will be published September 02, 2025 by ECW Press. I'm thrilled to be able to share the cover with you, and especially thrilled that it features art by renowned Canadian sculptor David Altmejd.
My eighth collection of poetry, NMLCT, will be published September 02, 2025 by ECW Press. I'm thrilled to be able to share the cover with you, and especially thrilled that it features art by renowned Canadian sculptor David Altmejd.
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“The word ‘white’ is a code, the way the word ‘fascism’ is, words to try to signal emergency near damages too deep and wide to describe.”
Up now: “Fort Jabalia: Fourteen ways of looking at white” by Suzanne Gardinier. Art by @jeanmariecasbarian.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/fort-ja...
Up now: “Fort Jabalia: Fourteen ways of looking at white” by Suzanne Gardinier. Art by @jeanmariecasbarian.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/fort-ja...
Fort Jabalia: Fourteen ways of looking at white
Evergreen Review
evergreenreview.com
February 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
“The word ‘white’ is a code, the way the word ‘fascism’ is, words to try to signal emergency near damages too deep and wide to describe.”
Up now: “Fort Jabalia: Fourteen ways of looking at white” by Suzanne Gardinier. Art by @jeanmariecasbarian.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/fort-ja...
Up now: “Fort Jabalia: Fourteen ways of looking at white” by Suzanne Gardinier. Art by @jeanmariecasbarian.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/fort-ja...
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This a remarkably respectful and insightful obituary for one of the all-time greats. "People who did not know that ["Making Love] was about love between two men loved that song . . . Love is love. Between a man and a woman, between two men, between two women. Love is universal, like music.”
Roberta Flack, Virtuoso Singer-Pianist Behind ‘Killing Me Softly,’ Dies at 88 (Gift Article)
With majestic anthems like “Killing Me Softly” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” Ms. Flack, a former schoolteacher, became one of the most widely heard artists of the 1970s.
www.nytimes.com
February 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This a remarkably respectful and insightful obituary for one of the all-time greats. "People who did not know that ["Making Love] was about love between two men loved that song . . . Love is love. Between a man and a woman, between two men, between two women. Love is universal, like music.”
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Announcing the finalists for the 11th annual NER award for Emerging Writers: Temperance Aghamohammadi, Cristina Alexandra Pop, Zen Ren, Nathan Curtis Roberts, Laura Schmitt, & Tianyi.
The winner will be announced in March.
Congratulations to all six finalists!
www.nereview.com/2025/02/24/a...
The winner will be announced in March.
Congratulations to all six finalists!
www.nereview.com/2025/02/24/a...
Announcing the Finalists for 2025
It is with enormous pleasure that we announce the finalists for the eleventh annual New England Review Award for Emerging Writers.
www.nereview.com
February 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Announcing the finalists for the 11th annual NER award for Emerging Writers: Temperance Aghamohammadi, Cristina Alexandra Pop, Zen Ren, Nathan Curtis Roberts, Laura Schmitt, & Tianyi.
The winner will be announced in March.
Congratulations to all six finalists!
www.nereview.com/2025/02/24/a...
The winner will be announced in March.
Congratulations to all six finalists!
www.nereview.com/2025/02/24/a...
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It was a good mail day! Deep thanks to Rick Barot and @kathyfagan.bsky.social for their endorsements, as well as to @kevinprufer.bsky.social, @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social, Hadara Bar-Nadav, and Randall Mann for their edits, advice, and support. And thanks, as ever, to @milkweededitions.bsky.social.
February 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
It was a good mail day! Deep thanks to Rick Barot and @kathyfagan.bsky.social for their endorsements, as well as to @kevinprufer.bsky.social, @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social, Hadara Bar-Nadav, and Randall Mann for their edits, advice, and support. And thanks, as ever, to @milkweededitions.bsky.social.
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Thanks to @clmporg.bsky.social for featuring TERMINAL MALADIES by Okwudili Nebeolisa (@okwudilin.bsky.social) in their "Reading List for Black History Month 2025"! What an amazing line-up!
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A Reading List for Black History Month 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
For Black History Month, observed annually during the month of February, we asked our members—independent presses, literary journals, and others—to share with us some of the books and magazines they r...
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February 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Thanks to @clmporg.bsky.social for featuring TERMINAL MALADIES by Okwudili Nebeolisa (@okwudilin.bsky.social) in their "Reading List for Black History Month 2025"! What an amazing line-up!
www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...
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ANOTHER YEAR COME BY WS MERWIN
I have nothing new to ask of you,
Future, heaven of the poor.
I am still wearing the same things.
I am still begging the same question
By the same light,
Eating the same stone,
And the hands of the clock still knock without entering.
I have nothing new to ask of you,
Future, heaven of the poor.
I am still wearing the same things.
I am still begging the same question
By the same light,
Eating the same stone,
And the hands of the clock still knock without entering.
February 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
ANOTHER YEAR COME BY WS MERWIN
I have nothing new to ask of you,
Future, heaven of the poor.
I am still wearing the same things.
I am still begging the same question
By the same light,
Eating the same stone,
And the hands of the clock still knock without entering.
I have nothing new to ask of you,
Future, heaven of the poor.
I am still wearing the same things.
I am still begging the same question
By the same light,
Eating the same stone,
And the hands of the clock still knock without entering.
You can
make the stars spell out
anything if you stare
long and hard enough
— Carl Phillips
make the stars spell out
anything if you stare
long and hard enough
— Carl Phillips
January 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
You can
make the stars spell out
anything if you stare
long and hard enough
— Carl Phillips
make the stars spell out
anything if you stare
long and hard enough
— Carl Phillips
Me: Are you from Nigeria
Uber Driver: Yes. Beautiful country.
Me: Are you sure you're from Nigeria? A Nigerian won't call Nigeria a ‘Beautiful country’. It's not that it's not beautiful.
Uber Driver: 😂😂 No I'm not from Nigeria. I'm from Somalia.
Uber Driver: Yes. Beautiful country.
Me: Are you sure you're from Nigeria? A Nigerian won't call Nigeria a ‘Beautiful country’. It's not that it's not beautiful.
Uber Driver: 😂😂 No I'm not from Nigeria. I'm from Somalia.
January 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Me: Are you from Nigeria
Uber Driver: Yes. Beautiful country.
Me: Are you sure you're from Nigeria? A Nigerian won't call Nigeria a ‘Beautiful country’. It's not that it's not beautiful.
Uber Driver: 😂😂 No I'm not from Nigeria. I'm from Somalia.
Uber Driver: Yes. Beautiful country.
Me: Are you sure you're from Nigeria? A Nigerian won't call Nigeria a ‘Beautiful country’. It's not that it's not beautiful.
Uber Driver: 😂😂 No I'm not from Nigeria. I'm from Somalia.