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Ibrahim Saleh Mainah: Prose Editor

Ibrahim Saleh Mainah is a teen writer from Gombe state. In 2019 he was invited to the hometown of the Nigeria first Noble laurate where he had one on one encounter with Prof. Wole Soyinka and emerged as the Northeast winner of the Wole soyinka international cultural exchange project and essay writing competition, also the 1st runner up for poetry category. In 2021 his book "Memoirs of a dreamer" emerged as the 2nd runner up for the Nigerian prize for teen authors, Minna. In june 2021 he was invited as a member of the youth assembly fourm by the organizers of the Wole Soyinka international cultural exchange project where he talked on the theme "that our future may not disappear" before a live audience of 5000+ of people across the globe.  Some of his articles and interviews with newspapers are published online 

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Mahmoodah Oyeleye: Prose Editor
Mahmoodah Oyeleye (she/her) is a Nigerian. She is a member of Hilltop creative arts foundation. She is currently a student studying Economics at Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos state, Nigeria. She has been shortlisted for literary prizes including the writefluenza horror/suspense/thriller contest, Abubakar Gimba prize for short story, February, 2021 and Wakaso Poetry prize, May 2021. Her works have been published or are forthcoming on Kalahari review, Atherton review, honeyfire literary magazine, upwrite magazine, Microfiction Monday magazine, Susa Africa, applied worldwide blog, GHLL magazine and others. She emerged winner of the HIASFEST Nigeria prize for teen authors(prose), 2021. She is the teenage author of a novel, Faded Blues.

Chukwuma Eke Pacella: Poetry Editor

Chukwuma Eke Pacella, a student of medical physiology, writes from Uli, a foreign town in Eastern Nigeria.

Abdulrazak Salihu: Poetry Editor

Abdulrazaq Salihu is a 17 year old Nigerian poet and writer. He is a member of the hilltop creative arts foundation and was the winner of the December edition of the splendors of Dawn poetry foundation poetry and short story contest . He is part of the panel for the Nigeria Review(TNR). He was shortlisted for both categories of the Nigerian prize for teen authors (poetry and prose) where his poetry manuscript Constellations won the poetry category and his collection of short stories Hiccups was the first runner up in the prose category. He has been published internationally and nationally in different magazines and journals like pine cone review, Konya Shamsrumi, stories from the heart, Amulet poetry, world voices magazine, Icefloe magazine, conceit magazine and more. He has also gained recognitions In anthologies around the world from SHAGAZ, to Christmas tide, waa re kisan, Rio grandevalley international poetry festival and more. He is a two time winner of the Most valuable contestant (male) at HIASFEST and has also won other prizes in categories like on the spot poetry,spoken words, and on the spot essay. He was interviewed in 2021 by Zee Aslam of the Northern literary forum which was published on the campus watch.if Abdulrazaq Salihu is not thinking about life, then he’s probably thinking of better ways to approach Minna young scientists forum a science platform he founded for young scientists.

Saheed Sunday: Poetry Editor

Saheed Sunday, NGP V, is a Nigerian poet, a Star Prize awardee, a Best of the Net nominee, and a HCAF member. He is the author of a poetry collection: Rewrite The Stars. He was shortlisted for the Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Award, Wingless Dreamer Poetry Prize and The Breakbread Literacy Project. He has his works on Shrapnel Magazine, Rough Cut Press, The Temz Review, Brittle Paper, Poetry Column, Off Topic Publishing, Eunoia Review, and elsewhere. In 2018, he was shortlisted for the Wole Soyinka International Cultural Exchange.

Salim Akko: Poetry Editor

Salim Yakubu Akko is an award-winning author, poet and short story writer from the great city of Gombe state. He has been published/forthcoming on reputable newspapers, international journals and literary magazines, including the Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Poemify Magazine,Trouvaille Review, Better Than Starbucks, WRR, Aayo, Kalahari, Disabled Tales, Carolina Muse, Hiwaga Magazine, ILA Magazine, Giallo, Carolina Muse, Ice Lolly Review, Brittle Paper, Amulet Poetry Magazine, Arts Lounge, Imspired Magazine, Hiwaga, Fevers of the Mind, African Fingers, Mad Swirl, Synchronized Chaos, Nnoko Stories, Jacar Press, World Voices Magazine, Spill Words Press, Ninshar, Upwrite Magazine, Nantygreens, Applied Worldwide, The Beatnik Cowboy, Eboquills Magazine, Lumiere Review, Teen Lit Journal, The Pine Cone Review, Piker Press, Afreecan Read, Teen Lit Journal, My Woven Poetry, One Black Boy Review, Scratch Poetry Magazine, Literary Yard, Parrot Box, Daily Trust Newspaper, The Nation News Nigeria, Blueprint Newspaper, The Guardian Newspaper, Independent Nigeria, Nigerian Tribune Newspaper, Opinion Nigeria, My Nigeria, African Fingers, The Campus Watch, Daily Companion Newspaper, Today Post Nigeria, People’s Daily Newspaper and elsewhere. Has been published in literary anthologies like Love Nniwanti, Flow of Love published by Dr. Durga Patva, the 2020 Lekki Massacre, My Constellations, and so forth. His poetry collection “INTO ASHES“ was the 1st Runner-up of the 2022 Bill Ward Prize for Emerging Writers, and his novel “HOMELAND” 3rd Runner,  respectively. He's also the senior category 1st Runner-up of the 2022 NEFLiC Poetry Competition organized by Halima Factor Community Initiative. Though in his teens, he was the 2021 GSSS Gombe delegate for the annual Hadiza Ibrahim Aliyu Secondary Schools Festival held in Niger state(2021 HIASFEST). In 2021, he was nominated for the Young,  Nothern Literary Rising Star of the Year by Arewa Community; shortlisted for the 2022 Jewel Literature Award by Jewel Magazine, and has been awarded the 2022 Young Achiever of the Year by Gombe Jewel Writers Association. In the same vein, he's currently a prose editor with TLJ, and a Nigerian correspondent for World Voices Magazine. Awarded for Excellence in Creative Writing by Hilltop Creative Arts Foundation in 2023, Akko is a 100L student of Zoological Science at Gombe State University, member of Gombe Jewel Writers Association, Creative Club Gombe State University and Hilltop Creative Arts Foundation. When not reading, he thinks of the wonders of the world or listens to programs on radio stations.

Zakiyyah Dzukogi: Poetry Editor

Zakiyyah Dzukogi is 18 years old Nigerian poet. She is the author of Carved (a poetry collection); winner of the Nigeria Prize for Teen Authors, 2021, a prize she had earlier won the second-place position in 2020. She is a winner of Brigitte Poirson Poetry Prize, 2021 as well as the Splendors of Dawn Poetry Prize, 2019. She has her works published or are forthcoming in Melbourne Culture Corner, Olney Magazine, rigorous, The Account, mixed mag, the beatnik cowboy, Kalahari, spillwords, Sledgehammer, the Dillydoun review, Tilted House and others.