
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