About
Native to Ogun State, Nigeria, Olúmọ Review is a biannual online literary journal focused on poetry. We are committed to publishing quality poems in all forms, modes, movements from Nigeria & beyond.
Our name is coined from Olúmọ Rock, a mountain in south-western Nigeria, located in the city of Abeokuta, Ogun State.
Our name is coined from Olúmọ Rock, a mountain in south-western Nigeria, located in the city of Abeokuta, Ogun State.
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Taofeek Ayeyemi “Aswagaawy," Editor-in-Chief
Taofeek Ayeyemi “Aswagaawy” is a Nigerian lawyer, writer and author of Tongueless Secrets (Ethel Press, 2021), Across the Full Moon (Mamba Africa Press, 2021) and “aubade at night or serenade in the morning" (Flowersong Press, 2021). A 2021 BotN and Pushcart Prize Nominee, he has works in CV2, Lucent Dreaming, Up-the-Staircase Quarterly, ARTmosterrific, the QuillS & elsewhere. He won the 2021 Loft Books Flash Fiction Competition, 2nd Place in 2021 Porter House Review Poetry Contest, Honorable Mention in 2021 Ito En Oi Ochai Shin-Haiku Contest among others. He is @Aswagaawy on Twitter. |
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Flourish Joshua, Founding Editor/Poetry Editor
Flourish Joshua is a Nigerian poet, writer, linguist, and literary editor. He is the winner of the 2021 Salt Nation Poetry Prize, and the 2021 Young Writers and Creatives Award (Poetry Category). He is Associate Poetry Editor at miniskirt magazine & a Best of the Net nominee. He's appeared in London Grip Poetry, miniskirt magazine, Olongo Africa, Blue Marble Review, the Indianapolis Review, Agbowó, Poetry Column-NND, and elsewhere. He is a member of the Frontiers Collective. |
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Rahma O. Jimoh, Poetry Editor (she/her)
Rahma O. Jimoh is a writer and nature photographer. She is a 2021 Hues Foundation scholar and a Pushcart Prize Nominee. A lover of sunsets and monuments. She has been published or forthcoming in Lucent Dreaming, Agbowo, Blue Marble Review, Kalahari Review & others. She was shortlisted for the Eriata Oribabor Poetry Prize, The Abu Bakr Gimba short story prize and the Poetically Written Prose prize. She is the Poetry Editor for The Quills and a Poetry Reader at Chestnut Review. Twitter & Instagram. |
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Pamilerin Jacob, Associate Editor
Pamilerin Jacob is a Nigerian poet & editor whose poems have appeared in Barren Magazine, Agbowó, Palette Poetry, Lit Quarterly, & elsewhere. He is a member of The UnSerious Collective, Founding Editor of EREMITE POETRY & a mentor in the SprinNG Fellowship. Author of the chapbook, Gospels of Depression & two others, he is the curator of PoetryColumn-NND, a poetry column in Nigerian NewsDirect, a national newspaper. |
