Nnadi Samuel

Nnadi Samuel (he/him/his) holds a B.A in English & literature from the University of Benin. Author of 'Nature knows a little about Slave Trade' selected by Tate.N.Oquendo (Sundress Publication, 2023). His works have been previously published/forthcoming in Suburban Review, Seventh Wave Magazine, NativeSkin lit Magazine, North Dakota Quarterly, Quarterly West, Common Wealth Writers, Jaggery, Foglifter, The Capilano Review, Lolwe, Arc Poetry, Poetry Ireland, New Orleans Review, Westerly, PRISM Magazine, Australian Poetry Journal, Ex-Puritan Magazine, The Spectacle Magazine, Maine Review, Existere Journal, Munster Literature, Carte Blanche, Lampblack Magazine, Trampset & elsewhere. A 3x Best of the Net, and 7x Pushcart Nominee. He won the Miracle Monocle Award for Ambitious Student Writers 2021(University of Louisville), the International Human Right Arts Festival Award(IHRAF) New York 2021, 2021 Penrose Poetry Prize Awarded for Excellence in Poetry, 2022 Angela C Mankiewicz Poetry Contest, River Heron Editor's Prize 2022, Bermuda Triangle Poetry Prize 2022, Betsy Colquitt Poetry Annual Award, 2022(Texas Christian University), the Virginia Tech Center for Refugee, Migrants & Displacement Studies Annual Award, 2023, the 2023 Stacy Doris Memorial Award(Fourteen Hills) San Francisco State University Review, the John Newlove Poetry Annual Awards(Ottawa, Canada), 2023, and recently won the Vera Manuel Poetry Awards, 2023 Surrey Muse Art Society(Vancouver, Canada). Second Prize for The Bird in Your Hand Contest 2022, The MONO Poetry Prize 2022, A- Zoetic Poetry Competition 2022, Bronze prize for the Creative Future Writer's Award 2022, UK London & 2023 Massachusetts Poetry Festival. A finalist of the Snarl Poetry and Prose Contest, 2022, The 2023 Orison Chapbook Prize and Unleash Press 2024 Book Prize. He is the recipient of the Bywords 2023 John Newlove Poetry Award. He tweets @Samuelsamba10.