Our new interview features a conversation between Uche Peter Umez and Uche Nduka, two Nigerian writers with a lot to offer to world literature.
Uche Peter Umez writes poetry, short fiction, creative non-fiction, and stories for children. An Alumnus of the International Writing Program (USA), Uche has participated in residencies in Ghana, India, Switzerland and Italy. He was one of the winners of the Commonwealth Short Story Competition (in 2006 & 2008), and has been shortlisted for the Nigeria Prize for Literature, in 2007 & 2011. He is a Board Member, Ebedi International Writer’s Residency, and lives in Owerri, with his wife and their children.
Uche Nduka is an essayist, a collagist, songwriter and lecturer. As a poet, he has authored nine poetry volumes: Flower Child (1988), Second Act (1994), The Bremen Poems (1995), Chiaroscuro (1997, winner of the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize), If Only the Night (2002), Heart’s Field (2005), eel on reef(2007), Ijele (2012), and Nine East (2013). He has also published Belltime Letters (2000), a book of commentaries and whimsical mediations.
