Toni Kan

Toni Kan is the award winning author of The Carnivorous City, Nights of the Creaking Bed, Songs of Absence and Despair, Ballad of Rage and When a Dream Lingers Too longer as well as 7 biographies. Fondly refered to as the Mayor of Lagos, he is co-founder of thelagosreview.ng

CALL FOR ESSAY SUBMISSIONS: WRITING LOSS & GRIEF

Grief and loss are as universal as life and death. They are footnotes punctuating our moments of joy and happiness and love.

From Antigone to Things Fall Apart, from Beloved to An Equal Music, some of the world’s most searing stories have been written from nibs dipped in the ink of loss and grief.

And now, it’s your turn.

Thomas Hardy once wrote that “Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”

I.O Echeruoʼs Debut Novel Is a Dazzling Blend of Science and Spirituality – Sima Essien

But The Comfort of Distant Stars is not exclusively a novel of lofty ideas and grave philosophy. Running beneath the intellectual current is the quiet drama of Ezeani’s troubled life and its constant entanglement with Anyanwu’s contested existence, driving a turbulent dynamic that keeps the novel emotionally tethered. And at the heart of it all lies the state of Ezeaniʼs mind, and Echeruo allows us to sit with the sobering possibility of mental debilitation, of genius misunderstood, dismissed, and finally consumed by its own weight.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – THE LAGOS REVIEW WRITING WEEKEND

Over 3 days, they will learn how to write compelling and insightful music, book and movie reviews as well as essays. Our facilitators would be led by Ellah Allfrey Wakatama, OBE, Hon. FRSL,  Editor-at-large at Canongate, former deputy editor at Granta, past Booker prize and International Dublin Literary award judge and Chair of the AKO Caine Prize and thelagosreview.ng advisory board.