Akwaeke Emezi, b. 1987 Umuahia, Nigeria
BOOKS
2020 'The Death of Vivek Oji' (Riverhead Books)
2019 'Pet' (Make Me a World/RHCB)
2018 'Freshwater' (Grove Atlantic)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2018 ‘The Mask As The Truest Thing’, Dazed Magazine (Spring 2018)
2018 ‘Writers of Color Are Making Their Own Canon’, Buzzfeed Reader
2018 ‘Transition’, The Cut
2018 ‘On Love & Associated Leavings’, Rookie On Love
2017 'Nowhere', 212 Magazine ('Only You', Autumn/Winter 2017)
2017 'Notes From Liberia', Vogue.com
2017 'Who Is Like God', Granta Online
2016 'The Texture Of Joy: A Stowaway Story', Commonwealth Writers (Adda)
2016 'Welcome', Wasafiri Magazine
2016 'Triumph 1360', Commonwealth Writers (Adda)
2015 'Who Will Claim You?' Commonwealth Writers
2015 ‘Sometimes The Fire Is Not Fire’, Olisa TV (selected & edited by Chimamanda Adichie)
2015 ‘Burial’, Lusaka Punk and Other Stories
AWARDS
2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa, 'Who Is Like God'
2015 Wasafiri New Writing Prize Shortlist + Special Commendation, ‘WELCOME'
WORKSHOPS + RESIDENCIES
2017 Sozopol Creative Nonfiction Seminars, NES Fellow, Bulgaria
2016 Kimbilio Fellow, USA
2015 Writer-In-Residence, Hub City Writers Project, USA
2015 Farafina Trust Creative Writing Workshop, Nigeria
2015 Caine Prize for African Writing Workshop, Ghana
2014 US Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, USA
2013 Cave Canem Poetry Workshops, USA
EXHIBITIONS
2015 UDUDEAGU + HEY CELESTIAL, Design is the Personality of the Idea, Group Exhibition, Lagos, Nigeria
2015 ALULU/ASUSU UDUDEAGU, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, USA
FILMS
2016 ‘BREAK FRUIT’ Brooklyn, New York, Writer/Director
2014 ‘UDUDEAGU’ Lagos, Nigeria, Writer/Director/Editor/Cinematographer
2014 ‘HEY CELESTIAL’ Paris, France, Writer/Director/Editor/Producer
2014 ‘APOTHEOSIS’ Lagos, Nigeria Director/Cinematographer/Editor
2014 ‘WAITING ALL NIGHT’ Brooklyn, USA, Writer/Director/Editor
2013 ‘BLESI’ Albuquerque, USA, Writer/Director/Editor/Cinematographer
FILM FESTIVALS + SPECIAL SCREENINGS
2017 New York African Film Festival, Film Society Lincoln Center, NYC
2016 Transforming Provocations-Regime Change, Flaherty NYC
2015 Transoceanic Visual Exchange (Barbados + Lagos + New Zealand); 50Golborne presents AFRO FUTURES IN MOTION with the Portobello Film Festival, London; NOW Cinema presents Films Supporting Home Affairs, London; Analogue Eye-Mobile Drive-in Cinema, Vienna; The New Cross & Deptford Free Film Festival, London; Fribourg International Film Festival, Switzerland.
2014 The Boda Boda Lounge Project (Addis + Bamako + Bulawayo + Cairo + Harare + Johannesburg + Kampala + Kinshasa + Luanda + Lubumbashi + Lagos + Santiago); Film Africa, London; Lights, Camera, Africa!!! Film Festival, Lagos; BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia; African Street Style Festival, London.
EDUCATION
2014-2016 Creative Writing (Fiction), Syracuse University, NY
2010-2012 International Public Policy + Nonprofit Management MPA, New York University, NY