I’m excited to begin my MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (@unlv), with full funding through a Graduate Assistantship. Here’s to embracing this next chapter of growth, community, and creativity. ✨ #UNLV #GradRebel #LasVegas @UNLV_GC

I am glad to have shared space with other brilliant writers on the Homelands Panel at the 2026 Las Vegas Book Festival, speaking on indigeneity, belonging, and the many ways we carry home with us and into our work. #LasVegasBookFestival #LasVegas #WritersLife #WritingCommunity

I’m excited to share that I’ll be speaking as a panelist on the Homelands panel at the @CityOfLasVegas Las Vegas Book Festival 2026 on October 17! We will be talking about homeland, memory, migration, family, and belonging. Looking forward to it. Details in the flier. 💫

Life lately:

Happy birthday to me! 🥳🤎 The past year has been a journey of discovery, growth, and adventure. Cheers to more goodness in life! 🎉

Life lately: teaching college composition & enjoying the city more.

Closing out summer with some Chicago moments and news that I was named a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press Fellowship for New Immigrant Authors. Cheers to more. ✨

Ending July with some Portland moments. ✨

I spent last week at @mccormack_wc at Reed College as part of @mafiasafia workshop. Grateful for the workshop, craft lectures, generous community, and new friends. Portland, Oregon is a lovely place. What a wonderful way to cap off a summer of workshops! #writerslife #osw2026

Writers! If you don’t know how to find places to submit your work to. I made a list of website that share open calls regularly. Please, retweet so other writers can see this. 1. Reedsy 2. ⁠Writing Contests, Grants & Awards 3. ⁠Eshoe on Substack 4. Subfolio

"I'm praying...that salt doesn't destroy the little flower alive in mother's mouth, that absence doesn't part me like the red sea" - From "a starlight fading into the gloom of night" by Praise Osawaru @wordsmithpraise, published in Unbound. Buy Unbound at narrativelandscape.com/shop

"there is nothing musical about grief,... how the body is a fallen angel drowning in the genesis flood" - From "a starlight fading into the gloom of night" by Praise Osawaru @wordsmithpraise, published in Unbound. Unbound is available here: narrativelandscape.com/shop

Join me @wordsmithpraise @Arazaqsalihu @thejaachimma as we read from Unbound. x.com/i/spaces/1qKVmmlQjLaxB

Excited to be reading with @samuelpoetry @Arazaqsalihu and Jaachịmmá Anyatọnwụ at @NarrativeLscape reading series for UNBOUND authors. We have begun; do join and listen to us read some poetry. 🙂

Almost forgot to share these. Loved this outfit a little too much. 🫶🏻✨

7/8/26 “I want to be surrounded by splendor, but beauty is capitalism.”

one year locc’d! best decision ever! Happy Sunday 🥹🫶🏾

H1— - Took a break from my PhD. - Started a new role where I am designing the future of agentic commerce - Moved cities. - Started 1000Reasons. All-time traffic hit ~400k - Won the Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize — $10k - The Years of Blood named a NYPL Best New Poetry Book of 2026 - Pushed the publication of my second book to 2029 - Published The Years of Blood in Nigeria (now sold out) - Launched the Arole Agarawu Prize which awards $2k for Black and African Poets - Left The Rumpus - Building an agentic chatbot for the future of the Nigerian Civil tech - Started building Portico, the OS for the opportunity layer of the world - Launched CD Agency, your content design CLI - Building a content design internal tooling system for my team at work Super H1. I’ll go to bed tonight and try again when I wake up. For Poetry, Content Design and Country

WEATHER FORECAST: a storm is coming! My 5th full poetry collection will be on shelves on June 29th. Are you ready?

Please, guys. I’m at risk of being homeless and I need all I can to get out of this situation. Please RT and share. I’d really appreciate it. Thank you 🙏🏿 oncrowdr.com/explore/c/help-…

Writers! I have compiled a list of Writing Opportunities—book prizes, magazine submissions, and contests. I also included how much they pay. A lot of them are closing in June. 1. Trio House Press $1000 2. ⁠Suspect Poetry Contest $300 3. ⁠Something in the Water Contest $50