Nigeria writer, Mary-Hilda Obasiota Ibe has been announced as a winner of the 2024 American Literary Review Contest.
Selected by the multimedia poet Carolina Ebeid, Obasiota’s piece titled “Post Colonial Theory” wins the poetry category of the contest alongside Monica Fields and Zoe Luh who are both runners up in the contest for their pieces: “Blue Camellias” and “Tongue/暴力” respectively.
The American Literary Review (ALR), a renowned American national literary magazine, has been a prominent platform for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction since its founding in 1990. Initially published by the Creative Writing Faculty of the University of North Texas (UNT) and the now-defunct Center for Texas Studies, ALR sought to showcase diverse genres and voices, both from emerging and established writers.
Under the guidance of founding editors James Ward Lee and A.C. Greene, the magazine’s mission was to promote freedom of expression and risk-taking, intentionally excluding scholarly articles to avoid stifling creativity. Over the years, ALR garnered a reputation for its balance between traditional and experimental forms, with a notable poetry-to-fiction ratio.
Mary-Hilda Obasiota Ibe won the 2020 Bloomsday Poetry Prize and the 2018 African Writers’ Trust Prize. She was also the winner of the 2020 Brigitte Poirson Poetry Contest Friendship Edition. Her work has been published in Brittle Paper, Kreative Diadem, Poetry Column, and Blue Marble. She is an MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Congratulations Mary-Hilda Obasiota Ibe!
Bakare Oluwatobiloba
I write to educate, motivate and define history with literature. Just being me!
