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Iheoma Uzomba Wins Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award for Poetry

The Nigerian poet, a staff writer at Open Country Mag, will receive $1,500 for three poems in English and in Pidgin. It is the renowned magazine’s top honor.

“Resist Containment”: Iheoma Uzomba on Interdisciplinary Poetry and Winning the Evaristo Prize

A month after her production Pretty Dangerous: Four Acts on Womanhood wrapped in Canada, the Nigerian artist took home African poetry’s top honour. Her practice is “a way of holding those in-betweens,” she said.

Iheoma J. Uzomba, 2026 Evaristo Prize Winner: Ten Poems

Read the ten poems by Iheoma J. Uzomba that won the 2026 Evaristo Prize.