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The Martins Deep.

2 months

It's such a beautiful day to finally quote this tweet I made last year: I'm overjoyed to announce that I got an offer from @uofmemphis to pursue an MFA in creative writing. 🥹

The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

11 months

You see this poetry thing, I love it. I love it enough to give my all to be great at it. I want to sit at the feet of the big names. I want to bend my head and learn. I will apply for that MFA, that fellowship, that workshop. I will get in, and pay the price.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

1 year

After 4 months of daily rejections, I just got my first acceptance of the year.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

1 year

Mag: We do NOT accept simultaneous submissions. Me:

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

1 year

In 2021, an editor sent an email pointing out a submission guideline I missed in my document. I fixed it immediately, resent my work, and received a rejection within five minutes.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

7 months

I thought I was depressed, then I ate. Guys, eat.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

1 year

Nobody: Absolutely nobody: Lit Mags: Flux. Flow. Movement. Fluidity. What watery conjuring occurs when language attempts to express the inexpressible? What are the poetics of movement and osmosis? How do we cross the squishy fabric of self and melt into each other?

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 years

A mag following you after an acceptance is a love language.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

6 months

I have this strong feeling Nigerian writers are going to do mind blowing things next year.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 months

WOW! I'm completely overwhelmed with gratitude! 😭😭 We DID IT! My GoFundMe goal for relocating to Memphis has been MET! I'm so thankful for every single repost, donation, and message of support! Your kindness means the world to me! Omg!😭 Thank youuuuuuuu!!!!

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

11 months

You see this poetry thing, I love it. I love it enough to give my all to be great at it. I want to sit at the feet of the big names. I want to bend my head and learn. I will apply for that MFA, that fellowship, that workshop. I will get in, and pay the price.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

5 months

Wanted to vague tweet this, but nahhh. Persistently tried @PalettePoetry for three years and they finally said YES. 😭 Seeeeee!

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 years

I am a portrait artist and photographer. Please, connect me to exhibitions, order my artworks in print on canvass, link me up with folks interested in art, solicit for my works with a honorarium. A little kindness will go a long long way.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

1 year

Guyyyyyyyyyyyssss!!! See who won something. 🤭

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 years

Seriously, I must confess, I'm feeling discouraged about submitting my poems anymore. I'm totally sick of rejection letters.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

1 year

@saethedj @WembiReports Same way American superhero movies say they're 'saving the world', but the setting is only America.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

1 month

This is what 30 looks like.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

4 years

Friends, I'm happy to announce to you that I'm a semi-finalist for the Jack Grapes Poetry Prize 2020. 3,500 submitters! 🙈

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 years

I just got my first acceptance of 2022 from @magmapoetry 😭😭

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

11 months

If you give up writing because of rejections, I won't forgive you.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 years

An acceptance from @strangehorizons , ladies & gentlemen!!! 😭

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 years

Y'all didn't tell me em dashs (—) are very sexy in poetry.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

6 months

What a way to end the year!!!! Guys, seeeeee. I won something! 😭 Ty, BAM!

Broken Antler

@brokenantlermag

6 months

Congratulations to the winners of BAM’s Issue Two Cover Contest: Olive Burns ( @josefcreep ), Martins Deep ( @MartinsDeep1 ), & Mirjana M. ( @selena_oloriel ) 🫀🫀🫀

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

11 months

Grateful & honored to be selected as a semifinalist for the Sillerman Prize '23 with my manuscript, "Sighs in Translation." Huge congrats to the winner, my dear friend @bakronline !!!!! Kudos to the editorial team & all the talented finalists as well. 😉

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

9 months

Guyyysssss!!!!! It's official, I'm a graduate!!!!! 😎

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

5 months

Some surreal shii here!!! Still basking in the euphoria of being accepted by Palette Poetry, and now @FrontierPoetry jumps on board too! 🤭🤸🏾‍♀️ Boyyy, it just never gets old to be grateful. Phewww! It's been a long time coming. 🙌

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 years

This is not real!!!! My artwork on cover of Anathema Magazine!!! Won't you weep for joy with me!?! 😭

Anathema Magazine

@anathemaspec

2 years

Our August 2022 issue ( #16 ) is now live! With new fiction from Koso Agboanike, Io Carpiso @eleanorglewwe @LPKindred & @plangdi_neple , poetry from @wordsbycho & @beatriceiker & exquisite cover art from @martinsdeep1 ! Find it free to read as always online:

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

1 year

Poets be like, "there is this person I like very much", then write a poem in which they scatter their ashes in the wind.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 years

Super thrilled to have my first artwork on canvas. 🤸🤸🤸 Title: Ogadinma (It will be well) Would appreciate your retweets. 🙏 My customer might just be on your TL.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 years

Got this huge acceptance from @EunoiaReview All 7 poems accepted to be published in June. 🤸

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 years

As a poet, can you recite any of your poems?

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

7 months

Writing is hard if you know what you're doing.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 years

Just in! I got an acceptance for my first fiction from @bcgazette I'm throwing a party!!! 🤸🥂🤸

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 years

Read Nigerian poets. Read Nigerian poets. Read Nigerian poets. Read Nigerian poets. Read Nigerian poets. Read Nigerian poets. Read Nigerian poets. Read Nigerian poets. Read Nigerian poets. Read Nigerian poets. Read Nigerian poets. Read Nigerian poets. Read Nigerian poets.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 years

Forget rejections. Send works where you fear to submit to. Destroy your fear. Be notorious. You have tried to be comfortable long enough. From now on, be mad.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 years

I was rejected by the journal. ✖️ My work was rejected by the journal.✔️

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

1 year

Poetry no hard. Na you do blood covenant with metaphors.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 years

A friend wrote his first poem, asked for a submission link and I sent him 3penny's. Am I an evil person?

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 months

Guys, I think I just shed my first tears of joy. This has never happened to me before. A kind donor just pushed us miles towards our goal, and I'm beyond grateful. Ah! 😭

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 years

Hiii! I just submitted my first ever written flash fiction. Wish me luck. 🙈

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

1 year

My 29th day around the sun, people! 😎

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

5 months

January has been kind to me. Thank you @aLongHouse , you've always been a dream. Thank you!!! 😭

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 years

Dear poets, if up to 70% of what you write borders on grief, loss or memory, believe me, you were an owl in your past life.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

4 years

@SocratesMbamalu Didn't know how to express myself than to create this. I am so sad. 😓

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 years

I got an acceptance from @Lolwe_ Goodness!!! Heaven knows it's always been a dreammmm, and here it is. 3 poems, pipo! 🤸🤸🤸🤸🤸

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 years

Asked my crush out, & she said YES. I'm dating, people! ❤️

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

7 months

😭 Thank you @TahomaReview Thank you @strangehorizons I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you!!!!!

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 years

@Naija_PR "This is the day you'll always remember that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow"

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

1 year

Me: "I'm never ever going to submit to..." Mag: "We pay $50 per poem" Me: "Enclosed are two poems"

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 years

Today is the best day to have a party. It’s my birthday and I am ready to take the wishes and gifts. Cheers to 27! 😎

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

6 months

Guyssssssssss!!! I'm thrilled to share my artwork on the cover of the latest issue of @ReckoningMag titled "Breaking Points" Truly grateful for this incredible opportunity, & excited to be part of such a meaningful publication. Check it out!!!!!

Weightless Books

@WeightlessBooks

6 months

New today, @ReckoningMag 8 is here! The "resistance" issue, edited by @waverly_sm and @knarpoet , cover art by @MartinsDeep1 :

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 years

I just received an acceptance!!! 😭

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 years

Hello!!!! An amazing lady, Ovaioza, bought me a laptop to support my artwork. I'm so humbled by her kindness. Such precious gift to a complete stranger? I'm wordless. So wordless rn. 🥺

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

9 months

I'm Martins from Nigeria, this is my art.

David Urbanke

@davidurbanke

9 months

I'm David from New York, this is my art

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 years

Worked on this artwork an hour ago. ☺️

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

10 months

I swear, there is someone out there so in love with your work, they will tell you after your demise.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 years

A mag rejected my works and said they 'enjoyed my bio'. I don't understand what is there to be enjoyed. 🤣🤣🤣

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

1 year

Just signed the contract to have my artwork, "Mask", appear on the issue cover of @FreeFallMag 🤭

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 years

!!!!!!!!!!!! I just won the Shuzia Digital Art Competition: The Woman at the Well. HUGE thank you for this honor, @myshuzia What a day this has been! Going to bed full of gratitude.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 years

Damn! I just got another acceptance from @Paper__Lanterns for an art piece to appear on the cover of their ninth issue. Plus, my poem, "In which I mistook the thorn of a rose for a plectrum", was selected as the winning entry in the poetry category of Lit Round's anthology. 😭

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 years

@Deevybs @BlaqBonez Even di 10% I no dey give am, but e still dey show me love.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 years

A rare picture of your dream mag considering your submission

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 years

If a mag rejects your work more than ten times, they're only interested in publishing you posthumously. Wait.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

4 years

I won, fam! Heaven knows I never expected this. 😭😭 I feel so glorious rn.

AuthorPedia — Words Rhymes & Rhythm

@authorpedia

4 years

Congratulations to @MartinsDeep1 (1st Prize), Jamiu Ahmed (2nd Prize), Ojo Adewale Iyanda (3rd Prize), winners of the August-Septrember edition of the Brigitte Poirson Poetry Contest (BPPC) 2020. ... The winners: The Chapbook:

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

1 year

Cover letter, 15 years later: Dear Editor, This is my two hundredth submission after your second issue was published. Is it that you don't like me or what?

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 months

Hi, guyyyyssss! My poem is now live on @FrontierPoetry —a dream come true!! Here, I delved into the themes of loss, grief and the afterlife using the Abiku/Ogbanje mythology. I hope it's worth your time. 😊

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 years

Thank you, @FracturedLit & @JellyfishReview for your beautiful personal rejections. Your kind words about my story means so much to me, especially that the submitted work is my first ever written flash fiction. ❤️❤️

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 months

Writers

kira 👾

@kirawontmiss

3 months

who the fuck is addicted to Gmail

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 months

Hi guyyyyysss! To help alleviate the burden that comes with this offer, @NotNowNicole has helped me launch a GoFundMe campaign to raise funds to cover my relocation expenses. Link:

Help Martins Deep Pursue His MFA Dream, organized by Nicole Adabunu

I stand at the crossroads of opportunity and transformation, bracing myself to e… Nicole Adabunu needs your support for Help Martins Deep Pursue His MFA Dream

www.gofundme.com

The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 months

It's such a beautiful day to finally quote this tweet I made last year: I'm overjoyed to announce that I got an offer from @uofmemphis to pursue an MFA in creative writing. 🥹

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 months

My poem is now live @strangehorizons ! Set in a futuristic world, the narrator—a cyborg under scrutiny—offers a defense against accusations and implications of wrongdoing. Do give it a read, loves. 😚

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

10 months

Guyyyyyyyyyys, see!!! I won an art contest! 🤭🤸🏾‍♀️🤭

Utopia Science Fiction Magazine

@FictionUtopia

10 months

Welcome to the start of Year 5! Our latest issue has been released with incredible stories, poems, science articles. Included is a new section called the Creature Feature. Cover Art is by Martins Deep - winner of the August Art Competition. Take a look:

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 years

...and I just crossed out another item on my wishlist. Courtesy of IconTowers Studios, UK, I received a digital camera to help me take better photos than the phone I was using. So so excited!!

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

1 year

It's publication day, guyssss! 😎 Remember the weird title of my poem with an ISBN? Well, I'm excited to announce its publication in the latest issue of @augurmagazine Huge thanks to the amazing editors for believing in my work & giving it a home. Full poem in your copy. 😋

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 years

I got my first Pushcart nomination, friends!!! 🤸 🤸 🤸 Thank you so much, @sfpoetry Eye To The Telescope I'm also thrilled to tell you I got an acceptance from @ecotheo I am over the moon, rn! 🙈🤭

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 years

Overjoyed to share my poem in the Obsidian issue of @magmapoetry It feels awesome to share this dream space with Asmaa Jama, Romeo Oriogun, Mya Alexice, Precious Uwen, Yomi Sode & other amazing poets. I hope you enjoy it.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 years

Are there lit mags whose editors you really enjoyed working with? Here are 10 of the nicest I brag about; @strangehorizons @suburbanreview1 @FantasyMagazine @anathemaspec @BarrenMagazine @maskslitmag @sageciggs @PenumbricMag @VariantLit @fly_press 💙💙💙

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

4 months

Poetry and cover art acceptances. Ayayayaya! I feel so alive😎 Thank you, @EmergeJournal 😘 Thank you, table//FEAST Literary Magazine 😘

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 years

Never let your hunger for validation lower your joy for writing.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 years

I've got 37 submissions in-progress on Submittable. How many have you?

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 years

Created this piece in celebration of every woman making my life beautiful. ❤️

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 years

Saw this little girl playing with a tetthered puppy and took a shot. It was a rough day, but I felt alive after she smiled back at me. ❤️

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 years

An acceptance from a paying market for 7 artworks is surreal. Thank you, Don Stouder at Cathedral Canyon Review.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

4 months

It's my pub day! My poem, "Mouth mirror, or elegy for my premolar" in which I explored the relationship between the removal of my tooth, its absence in my mouth, with loss has gone live @PalettePoetry Grateful to the editors for giving this deeply personal piece a home. 🦷

Palette Poetry

@PalettePoetry

4 months

today's #poem is "Mouth mirror or elegy for my premolar" by @martinsdeep1 "i do / not want to sing / of this ruin that cast its shadow in my mouth"

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@MartinsDeep1

3 years

6 rejections today. 😭😭😭

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 years

You can write fiction. You're just lazy.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 years

Mosquitoes are the reincarnation of failed, bitter violinists.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

1 year

Poet: I just wrote the best poem in the world! Impostor syndrome:

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

1 year

Sometimes, your growth greatly depends on friends who can tell you the truth about your writing.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

4 years

My poetry chapbook, "A Sheaf of Whispering Leaves" is up for free download @authorpedia . So excited! Tanks of thanks to Mr Kukogho Iruesiri Samson for giving me & 9 others the opportunity of getting our works out there.

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 years

Yay!!! I got an acceptance from the amazing @PoetryColumnNnd I feel so alive🤸

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 years

I got robbed of my phone at knifepoint. This happened on the 29th of January, 2021. The incidence shook the life out of me. Just logged in with a friend's phone because I've missed y'all🥺 I hope to get back as soon as I get a new phone. ❤️❤️

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 years

An editor of a mag once rejected my work, announced a change of editors for the quarter, and I quickly sent that same rejected work to this new editor who accepted it. Matthew 2:19-20 🙊

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

4 years

Got an acceptance from @ChestnutReview for a photo of mine and for my poem, ''Servitude" by @artmosterrific So excited!!!

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 months

Just a little nudge to let you all know that my GoFundMe campaign is still up and running! Your kindness and support have been incredible so far, and I'm super grateful. Thank you! Show some love:

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 months

Wow, the kindness I've seen from everyone supporting my MFA journey to Memphis is eye watering. Thank you! 🥹🙌 Every repost and donation means the world to me. Let's keep the momentum going!!!

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 years

Dear editors, I hope this meets you well. Please, can you try not to send me any rejection on the 11th of May? It is my birthday. Thank you. Kindly, Martins Deep

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

3 years

An acceptance, guyssss!! Many thanks to the wonderful editors @FantasyMagazine Arley Sorg & Christie Yant for their kind consideration of my flash fiction. 🤸🤸🤸

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

1 month

Pleased to announce that TWO of my poems are now live on @aLongHouse ! Paying homage to the African poets who inspired me, I badly wanted to be a poet above anything else. This is a tribute to their legacy.

Two Poems | A Long House

Two Poems

alonghouse.com

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@MartinsDeep1

2 years

Portrait of a broke Nigerian poet looking for "we're a paying market" before reading the submission guidelines

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

2 months

Thrilled to have my two babies out in the world! One in @HeartlinesSpec & another one in @EmergeJournal Huge thanks to the amazing editors at both publications for sharing my work! 😎

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The Martins Deep.

@MartinsDeep1

4 years

Just received acceptance letters from Libretto Magazine (artwork) and Kalopsia Literary Journal (2 poems) The comments made by Kalopsia Literary Journal were mind-blowing and full of warmth. I feel good!!!

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