Njoku Nonso is a Nigerian Igbo-born poet and multidisciplinary artist. Much of his works explore the concept of self as a unit of language, blackness, familyhood, dreamscapes, and otherness. A recipient of the 2022 Unserious Collective Fellowship, he won the New Writers Poetry Competition UK 2024, Boston Review Annual Poetry Contest 2022, Emeka Anuforo Prize for Best Literary Artiste of the Year from The Muse Journal of the University of Nigeria, the NgEducators International Model, United Nations Conference Poetry Competition for Outstanding Indigenous Artists, and New Writers UK competition. He has been a finalist for the Open Drawer Poetry Contest, the Lumiere Review Inaugural Writing Contest, the Chestnut Review’s Stubborn Writers Contest, and a shortlistee for the 2023 Akachi Chukwuemeka Prize for Literature. His work has been published or are forthcoming in Poet Lore, Boston Review, Arkansas International, Chestnut Review, Agbowo, Bodega, 20.35 Africa, Momento: An Anthology of Contemporary Nigerian Poetry, and elsewhere.

Awards

2024           

Winner, New Writers Poetry Competition UK


Winner, NgEducators International Model, United Nations Conference Poetry Competition for Outstanding Indigenous Artist

2023           

Shortlist, Chukwuemeka Akachi Prize for Literature

2022

Winner, Boston Review Annual Poetry Contest

Winner, Unserious Collective Fellowship


Winner, Emeka Anuforo Prize for Best Literary Artiste of the Year, The Muse Journal of The University of Nigeria

Finalist, Chestnut Review Stubborn Writers Contest

Finalist, Lumiere Review Inaugural Writing Contest

Finalist, Open Drawer Poetry Contest