It's almost as if Ghana is Seeking to Gag Literary Outlets & Publishers. Or, are they? [Background: Ghana’s Parliament has passed the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill again in 2026 after an earlier 2024 version lapsed without presidential assent.] Heterosexual or not, we cannot be lackadaisical about the far-reaching consequences of the new LGBTQ+ regulations in Ghana. If you are a literary outlet, to ignore the draft bill would be foolish. WARNING If signed into la

It's nigh impossible to promote writing by creatives who do not want to compromise their privacy.

The only definitive way to confirm that a piece was the product of an algorithm is, unfortunately, a direct confession from the creator. Not AI checkers nor our intuition.

In the winning poem: ‘The Etymology of Homesickness,’ as well as being pivoted into the world of Janine Milne’s changeling protagonist, the reader is confronted with Milne’s attempt at redefining homesickness.

Literature has always demanded from us the gift of expression. A poem, a story, or any form of genuine expression is a medium through which we understand ourselves more clearly. Through them, we examine the present and return to the past, our history, hunger, desire, shame, displacement, and other complexities and burdens of being human. This edition of Penned in Rage has these fingerprints. The works gathered here emerge from distinct emotional landscapes and are bound by th

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Poem by Bridgette James Art by by Kambumban Chawinga Featured Artist: Kambumban aka Kannie Chawinga (Malawi) A Shape Poem by B. James Violinist by Kambumban Chawinga (Malawi) Girl Leaning on her shoulder, art by Kambumban Chawinga (Malawi)

Does the use of the twenty-seventh letter irritate you too? How about too many em/en dashes in a poem?

Almost Four Years on, Ella’s Poems Project Still Battles with the Indomitable Metered Poem

Do you get as frustrated as I do over what to include or exclude from your poem after writing that first draft? A tried and tested way is for you to colour code your piece to see what could be redacted.

The dead appear in various forms: Cadavers of children, the unidentified dead, victims of rituals, dismembered bodies, the ordinary dead, ?? war victims, missing – dead people and ghosts.

Read a poem, then move up to a paragraph and then read an entire page. When you find time, please read a whole book. What you grow!

Begin with a gerund or -ING form of the verb. Example: *Standing by the roadside, dishevelled Efua looked like she’d been hit by a truck. 2. Begin your sentence with a past participle. Example: *Annoyed by Babatunji’s constant nagging, Efua began a secret relationship with her boss, Obasanjo.

Storytelling in Poetry Using ‘Arrival’ by Adedayo Agarau (2024) and ‘Vultures’ by Chinua Achebe (1971)

Written and spoken pieces were collected from creative writers in two sub-Saharan countries: English 001 and English 002 and were analysed