Adedayo Agarau @adedayo_agarau Twitter profile

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

9 months

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Adedayo Agarau

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1 year

I’m delighted to announce that I’ve been awarded the prestigious Wallace Stegner Fellowship @Stanford . I never imagined the boy from Federal Polytechnic Ede would head to @IowaWritersWksp and now Stanford, but it’s happening & I’m grateful.

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Adedayo Agarau

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2 years

Buju changing his name to BNXN doesn't take away the fact that he beat his ex girlfriend blueblack and left her after heavily extorting her of her money.

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Adedayo Agarau

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2 months

This IBD Dende’s exposé by Fisayo directly points to why so many people in Lagos wanted Tinubu as president—counted his presidency as the level ground and free passage to criminality.

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

9 months

this.

Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

9 months

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

5 years

I was 9 months. Got crawled into naked wires and my hand was melting. She ran out of the bathroom naked, tried to carry me. She was wet so the electric current threw her against the wall. She survived, I survived after 5 operations. Thanks mum.

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

1 year

2011- Pre-ND, Federal Polytechnic Ede 2012-2015 - ND, Federal Polytechnic Ede 2016-2019 - HND, Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo 2021-2023 - Iowa Writers Workshop, University of Iowa 2023-2025 - Wallace Stegner Fellow, Stanford University I’ve been crying all morning.

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

1 year

Masters of Fine Arts, Creative Writing — Iowa Writers Workshop

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

6 months

October dump? Moved to the US two years ago for my Master of Fine Arts Program. Became a US resident last week. I'm having a fantastic year & I'm grateful for everyone supporting my journey. And yeah, I'm having a fantastic time at Stanford.

Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

1 year

2011- Pre-ND, Federal Polytechnic Ede 2012-2015 - ND, Federal Polytechnic Ede 2016-2019 - HND, Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo 2021-2023 - Iowa Writers Workshop, University of Iowa 2023-2025 - Wallace Stegner Fellow, Stanford University I’ve been crying all morning.

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Adedayo Agarau

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4 years

The sprung out of no where. The Police calmly listened to them without pouring hotwater or teargas. All major news outlets were there to cover them. Everything happened unprepared, unannounced. I love the Script Writers in Nigeria. They work really hard

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4 years

I came across some protesters called the “Indigenous people of the FCT” along area 11, at Louis Edet House this morning protesting against the #EndSARS protesters blockage of major roads across the FCT, Abuja.

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

8 months

Best poem!

Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

9 months

quote this tweet with that poem! THAT POEM!

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

1 year

Excited to announce I’ve been selected for the 2023 Cave Canem Fellowship. 😭😭😭

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

5 months

Unreal but I'm going to be a 2025 debut poet!!!!! I'm getting published. News later but I won a book prize and I'm getting publisheddddddd. “The Years of Blood” (tentative) is getting publisheddddddddd. Each time I think “well, it's over,” God says “you joke a lot.”

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

1 year

I wept like an idiot on Clinton street when I got the call. That dreams don't come true is a lie! I'm so grateful.

Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

1 year

I’m delighted to announce that I’ve been awarded the prestigious Wallace Stegner Fellowship @Stanford . I never imagined the boy from Federal Polytechnic Ede would head to @IowaWritersWksp and now Stanford, but it’s happening & I’m grateful.

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

4 months

Everyone knows Damola was a full-time poet, right? Like he was an editor of a journal & as of 2015, he was part of the delegation that went to Festival Calabar organized by POETS IN NIGERIA, Eriata Oribhabor.

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

1 year

It's with tears & happiness that I submit my graduate thesis today. This collection took so much from me. It's not a book of healing. It may wreck you. But until it reaches the world, I wish you happiness; and myself, congratulations. The Year of Blood.

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

1 month

You see white privilege? It will come fully clothed, walk into the house and tell you there were no guards at the door. Good luck.

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@slavasazhin83

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It took me just 3 weeks to get a business card handed to me with such an address on the back. Nigeria is a country of opportunities.

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

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I went to teach a poetry class in Washington, Iowa. It was a hall full of students and I tried to personalize my teaching. While going around checking their poems I found a student who wrote me a poem: Roses are red, violets are blue Races like yours belong to the zoo & I shall…

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Teachers don’t get paid enough to deal with this 😢

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

5 months

UK Global Talent US PR Graduated first Masters Got into Stanford Got into an MBA program …ati be be lo that I can't exactly remember

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BRAG ABOUT SOMETHING YOU’RE PROUD OF ACCOMPLISHING IN 2023 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

9 months

Should I make a thread about free courses creative writers can take outside of creative writing that'll start them up as freelancers?

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

8 months

this made me cry

Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

9 months

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

3 years

Happy to announce that I will be starting my MFA program @IowaWritersWksp this August. Grateful to Samantha, Mark Levine and the entire faculty, I’m going to spend time getting better at this thing called writing.

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

7 months

Sending love to everyone creating today. Writing is hard. Too hard. Well done.

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

2 years

got a @poetrymagazine acceptance.

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

2 months

Avoid this product & all its daughter products. The company is currently silencing/imprisoning a woman because they received a bad review. The owner is evil.

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2 months

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

2 years

anything can happen to anyone because last night i asked someone to marry me & she said yes. 😌

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

28 days

I know we canceled Naira Marley but I need us to cancel him the more. Thank you.

Instablog9ja

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DNA Saga: Singer Naira Marley weighs in 🎥: Tiktok/iam_princeak2

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Adedayo Agarau

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2 years

@bunniexx18 @BlaqBonez Lol this shade isn't for promoters. It's a shade for Carter, I think

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

11 months

While on the phone, I express my exhaustion to my brother in Yoruba. Unexpectedly, a woman walking beside me says, "e pele." I was unfamiliar with her, and she had no obligation to be concerned. Yet, she showed compassion because language has a soothing effect, and I truly needed…

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

1 year

Graduating tomorrow. Thank you, Iowa. 📸 @Otosirieze

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

2 years

Some March News. I won the @uiowa Stanley Fellowship for International Research. 😩😩😩

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

2 years

A boy who was introduced to poetry in a chat room on 2go makes his debut on @poetrymagazine today. I'm going to take a long drive, Play loud music & maybe cry. It's been years and years of serious intentional work.

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

9 months

Proud to announce that my manuscript, “Year of Blood” emerged finalist at the 2023 Sillerman First Book Prize @AfricanPoetryBF , making it my second manuscript to make a finalist. Grateful to @kwamedawes @chrisabani @aracelisxgirmay @matthewshenoda @BernadineEvaris @philyaa ,…

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

7 months

Writers that know they are fine should indulge me with photos 🫠 Do it! 👀

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Adedayo Agarau

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4 years

Fam, the Inspector General of Police has a large disregard for the rule of law & for human lives. We are signing a petition so the.... INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT: Arrest Nigerian IG of Police for Crimes Against Humanity - Sign the Petition! via @Change

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Adedayo Agarau

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6 months

You'd think that at 29, I'd be less excited about balloons. Happy almost 30 to me.

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Adedayo Agarau

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2 years

A poet’s dream.

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Adedayo Agarau

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3 months

multiple offers for my debut is crazy & I can't believe I'm in this situation rn 😭

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Adedayo Agarau

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7 months

You were a writer even before you published anything.

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Adedayo Agarau

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2 years

On Tuesday, at the workshop I facilitated for high school students, one white boy wrote me a racist poem— "Roses are red, violets are blue Races like yours belongs to the zoo & I'll be there too, just to laugh at you" Honestly, this broke me. I would never forget it. Never.

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

5 years

Affirm: There is nothing that will stop me from getting home. Home for me is the dream in my head. It is live. I want MFA. I want to sit and learn. Then stand and teach it. Poetry. Poetry, say yes someday, baby.

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

9 months

🚀Young Creative Writers, Level Up Your Skills With These Free Content Writing Courses📝 PS: I will make another thread of creative writing courses for writers interested at a later date. As of 2016-2019, my friends were making about $400-1000 monthly freelancing as content…

Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

9 months

Should I make a thread about free courses creative writers can take outside of creative writing that'll start them up as freelancers?

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

9 months

Writers don't give their work enough visibility. Use this tweet to announce/promote your book, your new story, your new poems, and your forthcoming book.

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

3 years

Don't normalize calling Remi Tinubu "our" future first lady. We have not voted. Don't put them in places they do not deserve to thrive in. Please.

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3 years

I wonder when our future First Lady, Remi Tinubu will be in the news for the right reasons. No class whatsoever.

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Adedayo Agarau

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2 years

rupi kunle

Adekunle Olopade

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2 years

After 2 years, it finally feels like the right time to release this. First official project post the BIG BROTHER HOUSE. More details coming soon. Stay tuned. ADEKUNLE'S BOOK RELEASE #ThisIsNotAnExcuse

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Adedayo Agarau

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3 years

I am one of the finalists of @FrontierPoetry 's 2021 New Voices Contest. Congratulations to the winners ❤️

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

9 months

Need writers and creatives to blow more horns about the work they spent nights tirelessly doing. You are deserving of the stage. You are a gem! Celebrate yourself.

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Adedayo Agarau

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8 months

Calling all writers/readers! The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is open for submissions. Word count: 2,000-5,000. Open to 18+ citizens of Commonwealth countries. Entry is FREE and available in 13 languages. Winner gets £5,000, regional winners £2,500. Deadline: Nov 1, 2023.…

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Adedayo Agarau

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2 months

Guyyyyyyyssss!!!!

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2 months

@adedayo_agarau we will have a conversation.

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Adedayo Agarau

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9 months

It's my mum’s birthday today & I'm asking y'all to please send best wishes to my hero. I'm going to print some and send to her as post cards. She is my hero ❤️

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Adedayo Agarau

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1 year

tl sleep?

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Adedayo Agarau

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2 years

Guyyyssss I made the Brunel African Poetry Prize shortlist with @ChisomOkafor16 ❤️ I'm very very happy for Chisom because man, he deserves this. Congratulations to all the writers on the shortlist. "Yall wrote!!!!!"

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Adedayo Agarau

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3 months

Writing is hilarious. One minute, I'm like, I just wrote the best thing in the world. The next, I am like, ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I hate this world and all my poems! Am I alone?

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Adedayo Agarau

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3 years

how it started vs how it's going

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Adedayo Agarau

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4 months

Please remember that African Literature is still very marginalized in World Literature & everyone should support African Writers. Welcome, and thank you.

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Adedayo Agarau

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9 months

Look at this insane work by Adabunu Nicole. Read from ground up or from up down.

Adedayo Agarau

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9 months

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Adedayo Agarau

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2 years

The first poem in my new manuscript, "The Year of Blood" is in the July/Aug issue of @poetrymagazine . Grateful to @angelafloresfs @adrian_matejka for choosing this work. @emilycpolson @JuliaREagleton @MyNrhindi @IowaWritersWksp @vcmpoetry ❤️ Read—

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

2 years

Happy to share that I've been selected for the 2023 WATERMILL ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM. 😊

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

1 year

We need to create a community for people who love poetry or at least read poetry in Nigeria. Do book clubs read poetry?

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

3 years

My Manuscript, The Day The Birds Died, is a 2020 Sillerman Prize Finalist. Excited because the memories are heavy, and that book is proof. Congratulations to the winner, Sherry Shenoda, and to @Wale_Ayinla , an unserious collective member who is also a finalist. ❤️

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Adedayo Agarau

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3 months

Being a writer should not equate to a life of misery. I rebuke that.

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Adedayo Agarau

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3 years

Dear @davido , I want to work on your team. I don hack this media & content thing & nah you my body gree work with. Shey work dey? Twitter abeg help me draw David’s attention to this. Twitter abeggggggggggggggg 😪😭 #davido

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Adedayo Agarau

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2 months

finally withdrew my book from everywhere else. family, we are ready to sign a contract.

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

4 years

Dear fam, yesterday while there was a performance going on in Abuja, the Nigerian Police sect in Owode Ogbomosho killed 8 Young Nigerians, including a 10 year Old boy. This is why we are angry. This is why we wont stop until they agree with us that #SARSENDED & #IGPResignNow

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

2 years

Please take it easy on everyone. It's increasingly hard to stay motivated to do things–to read, reply emails, get up from bed and do existence. Nothing is sane about today and anxiety is crawling up on everyone. Be kind with your time, please.

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Adedayo Agarau

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3 years

Fam!!! I came third ❤️

Frontier Poetry

@FrontierPoetry

3 years

Here they are! The winners of the 2020 Industry Prize, selected by @tweeterlabird , @lizitasmith , & @SlagerDaniel ! 1st // the $3000 Prize: Michelle Phương Ting 2nd: Chaun Ballard 3rd: @adedayo_agarau See the pub dates + full longlist & more:

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Adedayo Agarau

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2 months

This weekend, I hugged my parents. This week I'm signing a contract. 🫸🫷

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

6 months

Please build capacity as a writer. Writing might not buy everyone a house. Use writing as leverage for other skills. Research. Take courses. Spread your wings. You are unlimited. Walahi!

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6 months

Creative Writing 101:

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Adedayo Agarau

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3 years

Dreams come true y’all!

Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

5 years

Affirm: There is nothing that will stop me from getting home. Home for me is the dream in my head. It is live. I want MFA. I want to sit and learn. Then stand and teach it. Poetry. Poetry, say yes someday, baby.

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Adedayo Agarau

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3 years

Affirm. Today, I know the way to go because you lead me. I am not confused, dismayed, left alone. My account balance enjoyed increase. I am satisfied with favour on all sides. I find the growth of peace, I enjoy life. I do not go hungry. I do not die wanting. I am watered. Amen.

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3 years

Talk to the Baba wey sabi make he help you know the right choice to make at every junction. We no go chop moin-moin wey go make us purge 🙏🏿🙏🏿

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8 months

“I have no idea what breathing is so I created staying alive personally”

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“I have no idea what Afrobeats is, It’s why I created the Afro-Fusion Genre personally”- Burna Boy🦍

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Adedayo Agarau

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1 year

Graduated from the University of Iowa with a Deena Davidson Friedman Scholarship, John C. Shupe Scholarship, and a summer scholarship from The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Sincerely grateful for the support the workshop has given to me and my work.

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

5 months

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Jídé Salawu

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5 months

Multiple congratulations to my brother on this big step. So proud of you Dayọ̀ @adedayo_agarau . God bless your home. It has been a year! A great one. Cheers to more good tidings of the new one!

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a small fellowship where Nigerian writers actually spend time together, writing, discussing, critiquing, etc, on a university campus Lord, do it for us ❤️

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Adedayo Agarau

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4 years

Rounded up my NYSC year today.

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Adedayo Agarau

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28 days

Career update. I signed with Salma Begum @GreyhoundLitAg . In the last few years, my friend @Olusojiii helped me with strategy and engagement, while my lawyer @kelechi_dozie helped me with structural decision-making. I am now signed with Salma, whose trust in my work is out of…

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Adedayo Agarau

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2 years

My baby.

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Adedayo Agarau

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3 years

27. It's my first birthday in the abroad. Cheers to many more. Happy birthday, Adedayo Adeyemi Adeniyi Adedamilola Olajire Agarau.

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Adedayo Agarau

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“The Years of Blood” made the runner-up of the prestigious X.J. KENNEDY Poetry Prize @TxReviewPress . I'm super proud of this manuscript, and what it's doing in the world it hasn't even arrived at.

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Adedayo Agarau

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3 months

I have met over 20 Nigerian Writers at AWP & my heart is so full. Looking forward to meeting more folks today.

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Adedayo Agarau

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1 year

I have an essay on displacement, migration and the music of @NoahKahan here. Grateful to @Madelinksi for helping this come to life ❤️

On Displacement, Migration, and the Acoustics of the Stick Season

Some musicians tender their listeners, and sometimes, their music enrages them. Some have mastered the art of carefully placing a note after another, such that it orchestrates the body towards the...

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@dantheboo We also saw how certain people treated people during the election and it directly points to how people are stakeholders (for personal interest) in this govt. The treatment of southern / eastern voters in Lagos is an example.

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Adedayo Agarau

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5 months

I want more friends in 2024. Real life friends. Hang out friends. Travel friends. Writers friends. Rich friends.

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Adedayo Agarau

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3 years

Dreams come true, y’all.

Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

5 years

Affirm: There is nothing that will stop me from getting home. Home for me is the dream in my head. It is live. I want MFA. I want to sit and learn. Then stand and teach it. Poetry. Poetry, say yes someday, baby.

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Adedayo Agarau

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3 years

Poetry changed my life. It honestly did. And each time I am reminded of this, I cry. Because omg, what would that "no poetry" version of me be doing with their life right now?

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Adedayo Agarau

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1 year

The weird thing about the japa discourse is that even in exile, you don’t stop thinking about home. You escape it, but pieces of you are there, rooted, unmoved, stuck, breathing in the ground.

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Adedayo Agarau

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2 months

Kanipe @fireboydml will just commission me to write a poem to open or close one of the songs on his heartbreak album. 😮‍💨

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Adedayo Agarau

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2 months

Courtesy of @jemmawei , I have photos from my Stegner Fellow reading at Stanford yesterday. Grateful to everyone who came out, and to the institutions that support my writing.

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

3 years

Being an African creative is so hard. First they racially profile you, they attempt to under pay you, then they actually steal your work and when you man up to them, they call you a monkey

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Adedayo Agarau

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I'll be reading some, or many poems on the Feb 28 at Stanford University. I'll be reading some poems from manuscript. A QA session will follow. If you are in the Bay or Palo Alto Area, I'll like to see you.

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

2 years

I have written a book y’all. Still needs a lot of work but I am celebrating myself today for what I’m extremely proud of. send me all your love & prayers & of course, offers ❤️

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

4 months

One thing this year taught me is that a little bit of audacity is good. Documentation is good. Trying, regardless, is good. Did too many things unafraid this year.

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

4 months

a good year🤎

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

9 months

Everyone is doing what they must. Some are writing. Some are reviewing. Some are writing “thoughts” and criticisms. Whatever you are doing, find grace. It's what you have when you are unable to write. Be gracious. Be kind. If they do not remember your exceptional talent, they…

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

4 months

This is my first time seeing this baby on a shelf. It's sitting pretty at the legendary Mariposa House at Stanford. 🤭

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

7 months

Please what’s the best short story you’ve ever read?

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

3 years

an @IowaReview acceptance ❤️🙃

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

6 months

If you don't talk about yourself, it'll take years before anyone will notice you were ever here. You are your biggest fan. Sing, scream, shout about yourself.

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Adedayo Agarau

@adedayo_agarau

3 years

Folks, I just got my first Pushcart Nomination ever. Thank you for believing in my work @Knights_Mag PS - This poem was rejected about 7/8 times.