Jaachi Writes

FOR THOSE BOYS WHO BECAME THEIR OWN FRAGMENTS How do you see yourself in yourself? How do you watch over yourself? What importance do you place over yourself? What value do you drive from watching yourself? I think you are the god of yourself building up the bridges that would sustain you if tomorrow comes. We may not have mouth to talk about future and dreams and aspirations and love and affections, but the US we see is the US we become. I have seen boys scattered by life choices, I have seen boys played by life and it callous elegies. When the sons of my neighbours learnt to arrange broken letters to form a word was when this man started growing teeth to eat meat but now, those sons have written a whole sentence and he still struggle with life.  Do you blame him for that?  Do you blame him for not meeting up?  I think you should not split fire by pointing accusation fingers on him. He tried his best and fate suffered him.  Another neighbour of mine has a w...

CALL FOR SUBMISSION: THIS IS NIGERIA ANTHOLOGY The fact is, writing, deserves much more accolade than it receives. But this is not the time to place blames. This is the moment when we need to echo our voices together into a thunderstorm and break the world into syllables where stronger, healthier and better words can be coined. And this is what we're doing. Right here! Right now! 'This is Nigeria' is our own way of telling the world we're not blind even when our voices seem subdued. Our portrait of showing the corrupt leaders, though we are down, we are not out. This is our chance of ringing it to their ears that we're are not part of the ruin profess, we clamour for a reverse engineering, where all things fall into place, so that one day, we would sit back into our couch & tell our children how we fought in making the world they live in a better place. Nigeria is our own world. The anthology welcomes Poetry, Prose, Photography, Essay and Artwork._ We welcome y...

I thought love was only experienced with people—which is why I spent agonizing time and emotional treasures pursuing relationships. You see, right now I’m in love with love itself. The thought of loving, being loved, giving and receiving feels like the ultimate purpose for me. I'm in love with me. It happened. The dreaded evaporation of cloud built castles. When I started merging with reality , I realized how wrong my perception of love was. Love is so omnipotent that it can be experienced everywhere, in everything, with everyone. It’s so massive that no human mind can ever comprehend it. It's so free that chains can't have it caged in romantic confinements. Isn't it so close-minded to think that love can only be found in romantic relationships? In fact, writing has opened my heart considerably, so I know now that my future romantic relationship will be experienced on a whole different level. It will founded on a whole different ideology. It will be hinged not on conven...

Writers Space Africa, an international literary magazine which features rich diversity of writings from African writers to a global audience, is calling for submissions for the February Edition. The theme of the edition is LOVE . Guidelines : Send your creative piece while considering the following :  1. Articles/Essays: 1,200 words. 2. Drama: 1,000 words. 3. Flash Fiction: 100 words. 4. Poetry: 1 Poem, maximum of 18 lines. 5. Short Stories: 750 words. Visit www.writersspace.net/submission to upload and read the terms. Deadline : January 15, 2018 For news of more opportunities from around the world, follow Stefn Sylvester Anyatonwu on: Twitter:  @stefnsylvester Instagram:   @stefnsylvester Facebook Page:  Stefn Sylvester Anyatonwu