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Carl Terver

2 years

"To write as though only one kind of reality subsists in the world is to act out a mentally retarded mime, for a mentally deficient audience."--Dambudzo Marechera

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

3 months

This came in the mail: I’m proud to have been longlisted for the 2024 #CWprize , after 7,359 entered stories. 📢 Congratulations to the writers who made the shortlist. @cwfcreatives

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

Naija poets, Grief has asked me to beg y'all. Let it breathe.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

How one as a Nigerian doesn't like Wizkid is beyond me. As in, an artist that defines a generation, whom most of y'all fave sound like today. Just how?

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

7 months

MY 2023 WRITING JOURNEY In 2023 I’d write a few essays, cutback editing jobs to focus on my fiction, I’d said. But it turns out to be one of my best essaywriting years. Here is a list of what I covered through writing. Thank you, and share.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

7 months

My copy of this just arrived.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 years

Did the NLNG Prize trend last night? I was asleep. Will the Nigerian literary space ever trend on Twitter when it's not Chimamanda, or beef?

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

4 months

I founded Afapinen, a literary magazine to platform new voices in critical writing about visual art, literature, and music, in defining a new age. It has been a good run so far. But I need your support to keep doing this great work. LINK: Please RT.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 years

Laycon is really full of surprises. This song is a banger.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

3 months

I just want to let you all know that I'm going through a lot rn and I'm just hoping I emerge strong and sounder from all the mess.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 years

My forthcoming poetry collection book cover teaser.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 years

I need whatever loud Laycon is on. The bars here are on par with Jay Z's. Boy got 'em lines!

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

6 months

I have two books coming out this year.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 years

I have a Nigerian writer friend who has even been published in The Rumpus but anytime we chat it's Pidgin throughout that we even use words like "kaban." Omeaux. The gift of multilingualism as a Nigerian is underrated. One minute you're typing "recrudescence" to someone...

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 month

PUBLICATION NEWS 📖 Not a novel or poetry collection. Never would've guessed my 1st full-length book would be a photobook. Glory to the Sky is a marriage of thoughts, a book I thoroughly enjoyed writing. Proud for it. Pre-order this love❤️. Thank you!

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

11 months

@A_ologunleko @triba_chief @MikaelCBernard @DavidHundeyin Na serious dey play o. I keep telling pessimists this thing: revolution doesn't have a formula. It happens when it happens, such that nobody can really explain how come. Whoever knew EndSARS could happen?

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

4 months

Editing is the greatest form of all writing.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

5 months

Know that there are times when you actually write a bad poem, story, or essay. Acknowledge this and do better. Nothing beats self-criticism on the journey to writing well.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

Proud to announce this gazelle, a poetry pamphlet of 10 poems written by me. Yes, I write poetry that has been praised as many things. Here is a pre-order link for just N460: There's a poem in here about migration, and "Down Payment on a Roasted Corn"

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 years

When I saw #Lagbaja trending I thought the man had released an EP. But won't he? 😭 I really need to hear him do some Africalypso fusion.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

My essay class which I announced days ago begins tomorrow. Here is a newsletter for everyone, whether registered or not. Some important tidbits to pick about essay writing. RT for me. Thanks. Essay Writing Class - Newsletter 2:

Essay Writing Class - Newsletter 2

mailchi.mp

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

8 months

I was featured with my essay "Mr Incredible: the Resounding Verses of M.I Abaga," in the latest issue of @republicjournal , tagged The Age of Afrobeats. I'm here alongside writers @esomnofu_e @JollyPaps1 @saratu and others. Buy a copy and enjoy this incredible offering.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

4 months

Going forward, we should all employ the full potentials of our vocabularies, delving into repertoires of diction we've since kept aside.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

9 months

Watched the first episode of Madam Koi Koi. The story builds up well, as the characters. A few takes: 1. This is a story that should have been a movie long befere now. It's good to have it now. I think the writers have tried to maintain an authenticity, not aping Hollywood.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

6 months

Finished reading yesterday and all I can say is the evian inside is very strong.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

9 months

I review Leila Aboulela's latest novel, River Spirit. I really enjoyed reading this book; it's an instant recommendation for me, and a powerful work full of depth, kindness, and language.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

4 months

A young writer experiences a CS Lewis moment. The pendulum of faith sometimes swings funnily or uncannily. In the end, Lewis had this to say: "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

Chinọnso Nzeh

@chinonso_nzeh

4 months

Metanoia | Chinonso Nzeh This is one of the most important things I've written yet. It was hard to write, but yeah.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 years

Only one elective course in university PHIL 101, Introduction to Philosophy and Logic, was enough to ground me in the basics of logic and reason, epistemology, aesthetics, dialectics, fallacies, and more. School is not scam. You have just been unlucky and a victim of time.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

As I announced yesterday, about doing an essay writing workshop. Consider registering for this if you have been thinking about improving your essay-writing skills.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

I'm happy to be a part of the SprinNG Writing Fellowship this year. Apply today if you're qualified! #2023SprinNGMentor . I'd be mentoring for essay writing; let's talk about introspection and letters from the regions of our minds.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

I was part of a translation project w/ @OlongoAfrica and translated a short story by Adebayo Ayobami. TJ Benson recorded the trans. My Tiv folks, get prepared. There are stories in other languages, too. The works will be out on Feb 21, the International Mother's Tongues Day.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

3 years

When a Wizkid Superstar album song comes up in the club and you're reminded it's Wizkid magnus opum till date.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

Have you read Michael's essay? We have raised some of the finest thinkers of our generation today, that will usher in that much needed epoch of new thought on the Nigerian frontier. I love it. More!

How Layi Wasabi Shows Artists Do Not Have to Dumb Things Down | The Culture Custodian

An essay considering what Layi Wasabi's success as an online comedian says about the consumption habits of the Nigerian public.

culturecustodian.com

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

4 years

I searched online to find a review of Davolee’s latest EP Festival Bar and found only one on Pulse NG, which is republished in other blogs. We underrate this guy so much. Right now though, I think he needs a manager. And a proper review, which I should write soon.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

LP doesn't have structure actually meant the LP doesn't have thugs, suppression and intimidation.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

July is my birth month. I plan to do a lot this month in publishing than I've ever done, I think. Both my works and of others, God help me. I want to also take this opportunity to announce a forthcoming publication, a photobook titled Glory to the Sky, which is a number of 34...

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 years

Happy birthday to a great man and one of Nigeria's finest writers: Mr Su'eddie Vershima Agema. From myself and all of us at Konya Shamsrumi.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

5 months

Submission for fiction is now open at Afapinen. Polish your work and send our way. Stories should at least begin from 2000 words and max at 4500.

Submissions

Submissons are temporarily closed. Only “Photography” submission is open. Thank you for your interest. We prefer reviews of mainstream Nigerian literature. Essays can be on a wide range…

afapinen.com

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 month

I gave a blurb for this book which I was also privileged to edit. Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera is a perceptive writer. Congratulations on the publication of this one, nwanne🎉🎊

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

8 months

Samuel A. Adeyemi is the Optimus Prime of the voice of the class of poets in rebellion with this present age, whose ache for maternity is ever visceral. That's why no one is touching him yet in this mode of expression. Samuel has already written what youre trying to write about.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

10 months

Something made me dig this up. I miss the days when I we had random nonfiction by Nigerian writers, keeping the scene bubbly.

Be careless with your wishes: A Igoni Barrett on the writing life in Nigeria

Nigerian author A Igoni Barrett recounts how a personal rebellion led him to writing – and to confronting his worse bully: his own country

www.theguardian.com

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

4 months

So scary that as a writer you get bored of rereading your own writing after a couple times. Feels so shitty.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

I hope we haven't stopped celebrating this book.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

I was at a supermarket yesterday taking 2 cans of Heineken when I saw a hawk in the sky. Bought a pen and tore this piece of rare papyrus from a used carton. Truly, I have always wanted to write a poem about the hawk. The scrap. The poem.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 years

Some mornings you have to wake up to the beauty of Romeo Oriogun's poetry.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

4 years

My chapbook is here, peeps. @JollyPaps1 @ChukwuderaEdozi @J_Chiemeke @oyinoludipe @literarygansta @Ropheeha6 @Obasidinelu @TheBagusNG @agbowoart @vcmpoetry @EEsomnofu @TJBenson_ @Nimisire @theqmarker @BarrenMagazine @nasaracreative

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

3 months

Y'all are sleeping on Afapinen. Send us your nonfiction and essays. We don't pay yet, sadly; we are earnest we will start paying soon. But our editing is topnotch and we make sure your work comes out as shiny as possible. Visit here for details:

Submissions

Submissons are temporarily closed. Only “Photography” submission is open. Thank you for your interest. We prefer reviews of mainstream Nigerian literature. Essays can be on a wide range…

afapinen.com

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 years

In case you missed my short story published earlier this month in The Stockholm Review of Literature. "The only tarred road in our small village town of Jato-Aka was flanked by old colonial buildings with elevated storefronts."

Once Upon A Time in Jato-Aka, fiction by Carl Terver

1. The only tarred road in our small village town of Jato-Aka was flanked by old colonial buildings with elevated storefronts. See the horizon? If you’re a newcomer, you feel you can pull it down l…

thestockholmreview.org

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

When you write about writers and poets, thats how they're introduced to new audience, or how they somehow become acclaimed or not. Let's do more. But we seem not to be interested in writing about our writers.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

5 months

Once again here with my essay class. My third and probably last in the series. Register; it's going to last 10 days with some good reading and writing exercises. Please, RT. If you're a former participant and you learnt something from your class, help RT. #WritingCommunity

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

No Nigerian work in recent history, poetry or prose, has impressed greatly since Ahmed Maiwada’s We’re fish as Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s When We Were Fireflies. And this review is a celebration of this great work of fiction by him.

The Remarkable Gift of When We Were Fireflies — Review

by Carl Terver

afapinen.com

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 months

I wrote one of my best essays yesterday. Rereading it now and I'm really proud of it.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

11 months

Felt the TL needed this.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 years

Poetry, I feel, attempts to redeem us from our hypocrisies.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 years

My mirror makes moves mimicking me.

Big Cuz

@imohumoren

2 years

Make a sentence with all the words starting with M

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

7 months

@samadsavage @ninadelaflores @Anthony34680426 She don't get it, I guess 😅

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

Masobe really published something here. Ibrahim, well done.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

8 months

I review Wole Talabi's thriller Shigidi. The Orisas are going out of business and Olorun wants to save the day! A delightful fantasy novel; I call it "a cinematic world by itself" because this is a movie in book form. Read here:

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

8 months

Just arrived. Sadly can't begin it now till prolly in January. Too much work piled. "The leaves are glossy and dark and from the dying blooms rises a fragrance that might be jasmine."

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

5 months

A scary thing that's happened to our poetry is that many poets today are addressed as poets or claim to be one (and accepted) before they become actual poets or learn to be one. It used to be that writers stayed away from poetry because they knew it wasn't for everyone.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

4 months

Happy World Poetry Day. You probably know me more as an essayist, but I write poems people often say has its unique quality. Here's one of those poems and the chapbook it was published in: For Girl at Rubicon Link to download

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

I just made a writer receive an acceptance within 24hrs of their submission. The universe rejoices.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 years

Editing a story I wrote about a year ago and I was pleasantly surprised I wrote this sentence then: "All the bustle at Maraba Junction was a contrast when I returned to my uncle’s house which assured the certainty of a cemetery."

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

@The__Vyrus @ikhide They had to insert that Balabulu clip 😂😂😂 These people no get joy at all.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

My longread for @zapublications is live. Put my soul into writing this.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 years

I'm not a long poem poet. I like walking away after a few lines, from the troubles in my life.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

Naija dey write sha.

Nnedi Okorafor, PhD🕷️

@Nnedi

1 year

This is a display at Powell Books in Portland, Oregon, 😃🇳🇬🌍📚

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

El o el. 😂

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

@DavidHundeyin Two days never reach, Balablu don dey make moves. O ma se!

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

3 years

🙌🏽

Emeka Must Shine ‘23 ✨

@BlaqBonez

3 years

LAMB 3.0: ‘The Last Cypher’ 📖 premieres tomorrow at 11am. audio exclusive to @BoomplayMusicNG

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 years

Don't be afraid to redo the draft even if it means killing your darling sentences or phrases.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

Pwaangulongii Dauod, Africa’s Future Has No Space for Stupid Black Men:

Africa’s Future Has No Space for Stupid Black Men | Dauod

‘The night was full of energy. The kind of energy that Africa needs to reinvent itself.’ New work from Pwaangulongii Dauod in Granta 136: Legacies of Love.

granta.com

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 years

I just occurred to me again, once more, that Emmanuel Iduma and Ayobami Adebayo are a couple. There's almost an injustice about this. 😅

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

I want to write a long profile on Rema.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

8 months

My short story "The Trial of Mr. Orvangegbilin" published in @afapinen . I wrote this while under a spell; it's the only explanation I have for its craziness. Readers have acclaimed it to be great. Why not read and find out:

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

4 months

Rejections are part of the writing business. Can be draining sometimes but we move.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

6 months

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. Big Brother is watching you.

Roving

@roving_thinker

6 months

What book quote is the most popular?

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

We have put a generation of Nigerians through bad schools. They come out of the experience intellectually lazy and lethargic. They don't know why they have to learn anything, which is just "stress" to them. A sad scenario. They don't just have any idea what knowledge is worth.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 years

BM Dzukogi is not anybody's mate in promoting art in Nigeria. The man has been the most enterprising groomer of young talents in the country. Gbosa for him.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 months

Failed to update y'all. #currentread The Incredible Dreams of Garba Dakaskus

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

3 years

Achebe: When a desperate man wishes to believe something however bizarre or stupid, nobody can stop him. He will discover in his imagination a willing and enthusiastic accomplice.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

Currently reading a novel and I now get the whole point of the Nigerians in diaspora writing debacle that happens on here months back. Honestly, if you were not born at home and have unoriginal experiences about home, why try hard to write a story set at home?

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

I did this book messy with highlighting cos I had to reread it to give it a befitting review. In which case I cannot borrow this copy to anyone and I must get a new copy soon, just in case. But this is a great novel. The Great Nigerian Novel, if you must.

OPEN COUNTRY MAG

@OpenCountryMag

1 year

The essayist, @ChukwuderaEdozi reviews @Abbakar_himself 's "When We Were Fireflies." Calls it one of the best contemporary novels out of Nigeria. Click link below his short review of the book.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 months

📢 @UmuofiaBookFest was started to promote literary and cultural consciousness among young creatives in eastern Nigeria to chart a new age of thought. Please, support @UmuofiaBookFest to make its 2nd edition a success. Please RT 🙏

Support the Umuofia Arts and Books Festival, 2024, organized by Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto

Hi, my name is Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto and I am fundraising to sup… Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto needs your support for Support the Umuofia Arts and Books Festival, 2024

www.gofundme.com

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 years

One of the harshest things, and truth, a writer ever penned is "All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others."

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 years

I'm reading John Gardner's The Art of Fiction. Procrastinated on this book but I finally got to it. Some parts would have been more revelatory in my much novice days so I find myself skipping passages, but then others parts really flourish for me and I have a good laugh.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

Finding the Story--and writing it. There was a demand by writers who couldn't attend the first edition of this, and they have been asking, so here is Writing Class II. See more to learn more about the class, and The Personal Essay:

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 years

Congratulations to @GriotsLounge @GriotsN for their faith in publishing poetry, too. This NLNG is theirs, too. We hope other major publishers take up the task of championing poetry publication.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 years

Dear editors and writers, it is JHERI CURLS, not jerry curls or jerri coils, and any other variations. And the verb, when used to describe the hairdo is "curl/curled," not "coil/coiled." The latter works sometimes but it has a more scientific connotation not very related to hair.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

I have longed to read something like this in a long while and Akinlabi came through here. Good prose is refreshing.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

7 months

An excerpt from one of my short stories, "Once Upon A Time in Jato-Aka," was referenced by a character in Peter Katyo's today-launched novel, Whispers of Tomorrow. Link to the short story in first comment.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 months

My chi said yes to film criticism too. In this lane I'd be writing mostly on 🇳🇬 indie movies 📺. Here's a first, a look at this brilliant short film "Nkemakonam." Thanks for reading. Please, RT. via @afapinen

Making a Film in 9 Minutes: On Ugochukwu Onuoha and Dika Ofoma’s “Nkemakonam”

by Carl Terver

afapinen.com

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 years

There's nothing cool about yahoo boys no matter how we've acquiesced to them. To think that criminals are casually living among you, freely, is a haunting experience, at least. The horror for me is watching fine, young men just getting along like all was fine. The horror.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

3 months

Everything Is Criticism—Why I Started Afapinen via @afapinen

Everything Is Criticism—Why I Started Afapinen

by Carl Terver

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 years

Dear writer, Resist writing your fiction predominantly in Perfect Present Tense. "had" is a real sentence stopper and ruin to euphony. It also causes undue sentence lengthening, leading to weak sentences. Die that "had." Let's talk about Past Continuous Tense another day.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 months

My struggle with people everyday. Social media (and algorithm) will hijack your modes of thinking before you know it. One way this shows is in being reactive to almost any topic that pops online with you taking sides before proper contemplation on the subject matter.

Mr. Possible

@Mrpossidez

2 months

Please, my friend, don’t let social media ruin your gentle eyes. It’s a market for everyone; never forget that. If John says women don’t love men, he will find supporters. And if Jane says all men are vile, she, too, will find a market of supporters. Take what you can here and

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Carl Terver

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3 months

In my opinion, reviews that set out to putdown a work are often always empty. The writer just gives a rundown of letdowns and the essay becomes languid and boring. For me, I better leave a bad work where it is than write about it. But if you must write about it, show some range.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

Tomorrow we celebrate Mother Tongue Day with @OlongoAfrica translation project. Expect to hear @TJBenson_ zwa Tiv, and read my translation. Many other stories in the works too. Link will be made available tomorrow.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

1 year

Cliché is still a hindrance to sound writing.

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Carl Terver

@carlterver

2 years

If you haven't, you can still read this outstanding chapbook by the recent Sillerman winner Tares Oburumu ( @oburumuTares )

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