Janna Onyemaobi

Mayowa is a writer, poet, and storyteller. She goes by the pen name The grey clover. Writing Journey Her writing journey started in secondary school when they all had to take literature classes. There were assignments where she had to write speeches, essays, poetry, etc. Her first time writing a proper poem was the year before her final year in secondary school for an annual poetry contest where students are selected to read poems. That year, her literature teacher told everyone in the class to write an original poem. It took her days to come up with something, but she eventually did. Surprisingly, she was one of the students chosen to read their poems in front of the entire school. Delusion It's dark. The starts are out.   It's perfect, or so it seems. Nothing can change it, or so I thought. Not long before I was wrong.   It's quiet, like a graveyard, pin-drop silence. Everything is still, no leaves fluttering. The winds wouldn't dare. No sound. The birds are mute.   I...

Mudashir Olayemi Adewale is a poet, writer, and editor. He believes writing is therapeutic as much as it is inspiring. He often writes from a place of deep emotions which gives him a sense of control knowing that someone out there who can relate is reading. Writing Journey He did not start writing officially until late 2016. He had lost a relative and felt hurt, so he just wrote down something, he did not even know what it was called until someone read it and told him that what he had written was a poem. It came from a place of intense emotion. He shared it on Instagram and got interesting feedback, that is how he got into writing. He wrote more poems and posted them on Instagram. He describes his writing journey as an amazing one, because he has met with people in the writing community, made friends, and built meaningful relationships. It has been awesome for him and he does not take it for granted. Yemi did not have a background in art so he never really understood poetry. As a child...