After reviewing thousands of applications from Africa and the Diaspora, the LOATAD Black Atlantic Residency supported by Hawthornden Foundation have picked 10 applicants for their 2025 residency including Abdulrazaq Salihu.
Abdulrazaq Salihu, TPC I, is a Nigerian poet and member of the hilltop creative arts foundation. He won the SOD poetry contest , BPKW poetry contest, Poetry archive poetry contest, Masks literary magazine poetry award, Nigerian prize for teen authors(poetry), Hilltop creative writing award, and others. He has received fellowship and residency from IWE writers residency, SPRINg, Frances Thompson writers studio and elsewhere. He has his works published/forthcoming in Uncanny, Bacopa, Consequence, South Florida poetry, Eunoia review, strange horizons, Unstamatic, Bracken, Poetry Quarter(ly), Rogue, B*k, Jupiter review, black moon magazine, Angime, Grub Street mag and elsewhere. He enjoys the aesthetics of language and the simplicity of things and is the author of Constellations (poetry) and hiccups (Prose).
Other successful applicants are Roger Robinson, Jaimee A. Swift , Keston K. Perry, Lori L. Tharps, Simbarashe Steyn Kundizeza, vangile gantsho, Nzube Nlebedim, Noor Salah Elfaki, Denoo Edinam Yawo.
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