<p>Newham Word Festival, Custom House Library Nov 16 Ola Awonubi by Newham Libraries Free Thu 16 November 2017, 18:00 – 19:30 GMT Free Register by clicking here Click here to register for free Event Information Description: In 2008, Ola Awonubi won first prize for the Words of Colour Competition with The Pink House, then going &hellip; <a href="https://easytowrite.wordpress.com/2017/10/15/newham-wordfest-at-custom-house-nov-16th-pm/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span c

<p>Excerpt  I love you, he had said. I’m crazy about you. I’ve never felt this way about anyone else before. Her jaw tightened. Yeah, yeah. That was before she had started behaving like a wife – before he had put a ring on it. Before having a child became the carrot dangling on the string. &hellip; <a href="https://easytowrite.wordpress.com/2017/03/21/love-unconditionally/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Love. Unconditionally</span> <span

<p>  &nbsp; &nbsp; It was like being transported into this parallel universe where everything functioned in a haphazard way. &nbsp; The first day at my Uncle’s house in Lagos the lights went off and everybody screamed NEPA. I asked who NEPA was. My Uncle laughed.  NEPA; short for the National Electricity and Power Authority, was &hellip; <a href="https://easytowrite.wordpress.com/2016/07/31/the-normalcy-of-nepa/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-t

<p>&nbsp; One woman. Two men who would change her destiny forever – one for good and the other in the worst way possible. One, a bad mistake that will haunt her for years to come but holds secrets about her no one must know. The other – the keeper, the forever guy – the one &hellip; <a href="https://easytowrite.wordpress.com/2016/06/22/a-class-act-work-in-progress/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">A Class Act &#8211; work in&nbsp;progress</

<p>  The next day Tony sat in the car watching Ada’s house. Everything looked the same. The old lady was still on the veranda, frying yam. The young men were gathered in the front yard, playing cards and ogling a group of teenage girls who walked past.  The little shop that sold soft drinks was &hellip; <a href="https://easytowrite.wordpress.com/2016/06/05/the-break-up-excerpt-from-loves-persuasion/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Brea

<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Alicia eyed the water chute warily. &#8220;I don’t know.&#8221; &#8221; Come on girl&#8230;..where&#8217;s your sense of adventure?&#8221; She could hear people shrieking and see them waving their arms in the air as they slid down the channel chute. She shook her head. He laughed. “Do you think I brought you all the way &hellip; <a href="https://easytowrite.wordpress.com/2016/01/16/date-for-a-dare-part-2-excerpt/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span clas

<p>She had known Pat since they were in Form One. They had gone their separate ways afterwards but ended up working in the same school. The first time she saw her again she had marvelled at how Patricia, whose body used to be tattooed with eczema had now metamorphosed into this sophisticated beauty. She wore &hellip; <a href="https://easytowrite.wordpress.com/2015/09/17/ilusions-of-hope-excerpt-from-the-wiping-halimas-tears-anthology/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span

<p>Did I not train you to be an Acceptable wife?</p>

<p>She kept on typing hoping he would take the hint but he just stood there, rubbing his chin. “Ada, Ada, why are you franking your face, eh? Is it a crime for a man to like a woman?” “You no dey shame. I am an employee here and you are a married man.” She shook &hellip; <a href="https://easytowrite.wordpress.com/2015/07/17/pests-and-bookworms-an-excerpt-from-my-book-loves-persuasion/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Pests and Bookworms &#8

<p>On Dec 15th my first book was published. The dream I have had since I was about four years old came to pass. I grew up reading those quaint Peter and Jane Ladybird books &#8211; where I looked for a child who looked like me in vain. I hold up this book and I thank &hellip; <a href="https://easytowrite.wordpress.com/2015/01/10/my-journey-to-publication/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">My Journey to&nbsp;Publication</span> <span class="me

<p>Originally posted on <a href="http://easytowrite.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/excerpt-from-a-lagos-rendevous-my-novel-coming-out-this-summer">Olawritesfiction</a>: <br />It all started with a kiss&#8230;. Tony arrived to pick her up at 8pm. She came out wearing a simple sleeveless knee-length dress made of brown African print material patterned with green leaves. A green belt and matching heels gave her some added height. Her braids were plaited high on her&hellip;</p>

<p>Ankara Press &#8211; coming soon. Six authors. Six stories. Six romances. Are Nigerian men romantic? Subscribe to the website by clicking the link below to keep updated as the series launches on Dec 15th &#8211; to find out. Look out for my digital novel &#8211; Loves Persuasion &#8211; one of the six due out. Tony &hellip; <a href="https://easytowrite.wordpress.com/2014/11/23/ankara-press-new-digital-publishing-imprint-coming-out-with-new-releases-dec-15/" class="more-lin

<p>“Dedicated to showcasing the best of established and emerging talented African writers in the UK” Accomplish Press in conjunction with Femy and Remy Ltd and Nigerian Writers, presents an evening of reading, conversation and inspiration with the best of new generation African Writers. The event will be a mixture of literature, poetry and spoken word &hellip; <a href="https://easytowrite.wordpress.com/2014/10/18/africa-writers-event-8th-november-london/" class="more-link">Co

<p>The road to home seemed longer, the red sand and mud heavy on her feet and the sun pierced her skin as she walked. She tried to keep to the shade of the trees as she made her way up the hill, being careful not to scruff her shoes against the stones and the pebbles. &hellip; <a href="https://easytowrite.wordpress.com/2014/10/04/coming-home/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Coming Home</span> <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t afraid of the word Nigeria. It was my tormentor, my nemesis and my destiny. Even the word was heavy so heavy that you had to split it into 4 to say it properly – Ni – ger – ri- yah Destiny was another big word. Ever since &hellip; <a href="https://easytowrite.wordpress.com/2014/08/10/blue-sky-thinking/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Blue Sky Thinking</span> <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a><

<p>He didn’t want people to think he was anything like his father. He sighed again. The sound swallowed up by his inner emptiness. He must be getting introspective in his old age. Thinking about Tanisha and what an idiot he had been. Thinking about his relationship with the old man. He thought of Tanisha again. &hellip; <a href="https://easytowrite.wordpress.com/2014/06/19/the-homecoming-excerpt-of-novel-in-progress/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-rea

<p>      Annabel had gone to the States and come back with this book called “Get out there and get yourself a life.” She had insisted she read it.  Despite her hatred of self-help books and their self righteous advice that only seemed to work for the writers she had gone through it and &hellip; <a href="https://easytowrite.wordpress.com/2014/06/15/how-to-get-a-life/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">How to get a&nbsp;life</span> <span class=

<p>I notice that there is a spiders web forming around the door when I open the gate.  The garden is full of weeds and the neighbours flytipping- rusty stinking cans of beans, a couple of boxes from the fast food place down the road and a cat jumping out of what used to be our &hellip; <a href="https://easytowrite.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/susannahs-box-2/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Susannahs Box 2</span> <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;<