Biography
Saheed Sunday, NGP V, is a Nigerian poet, a Star Prize awardee, a 3xPushcart prize nominee, a Best of the Net prize nominee, Best Small Fictions prize nominee, an HCAF member, a Star Prize awardee and a poetry reader at Chestnut Review. He won the Poetry Archive Now Contest, Centrestage competition, Lagos Poem Project, Quramo Poetry Prize, ZODML Poetry Prize and was a runner-up for The Nigeria Prize for Teen Authors. He was also shortlisted for the Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Award, Wingless Dreamer Poetry Prize and The Breakbread Literacy Project. He has his works on Palette Poetry, Lucent Dreaming, Lolwe, Strange Horizons, Trampset, North Dakota Quarterly, The Deadlands, Shrapnel Magazine, Rough Cut Press, The Temz Review, Brittle Paper, Poetry Column, Off Topic Publishing, Eunoia Review, and elsewhere. In 2018, he was shortlisted for the Wole Soyinka International Cultural Exchange. He can be reached on Twitter @saheedtsunday, or Instagram @_saheedsunday
2021
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School: NUD Grammar School, Ifo, Ogun State
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Prize: Nigeria Prize for Teen Authors (poetry) - 1st Runner Up
2023
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School: Lagos State University, Lagos
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Prize: HCAF Award for Excellence in Creative Writing
2023
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School: Lagos State University, Lagos
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Prize: HIASFEST Star Prize Winners for Male Teen Writers in Nigeria
HIASFEST categories and awards
- Nigeria Prize For Teen Authors
- HIASFEST Star Prize
- HCAF Award for Excellence in Creative Writing