Ngleshi/North Kaneshie boy, editor, social commentator, lecturer and writer. Début novel Tail of the Blue Bird now available in UK stores and via amazon: http://tr.im/lxl8
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- 1974
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- TOTBB: Tail of the Blue Bird L...
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Tuesday, July 7 at 7:00pm
Nii Ayikwei Parkes I had a clutch of poems in the latest issue (Wasafiri): http://tr.im/FRv6 but also way back in 2002: http://tr.im/FRv0 - all digital now
Nii Ayikwei Parkes my beloved N11, more constant than a 7-11 :)
Nii Ayikwei Parkes Returning from a gig in Bratislava. Just found out Queens Quarterly (CA) have accepted my short story 'Wood' - good times!
Nii Ayikwei Parkes "Et quand la peur t’attrape comme ça, ce qu’elle va aller chercher en dedans, c’est ton premier cri, la langue de ta mère." - chouette!
Nii Ayikwei Parkes Reading lovely French translation of the first chapter of Tail of the Blue Bird by Sika Fakambi - even the pidgin is done with style.
Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Possibly the last rejection letter from the African Writers' Series -
and I got it! Feb 2003. The last titles, Daniel Mengara's 'Mema' &
Ama Ata Aidoo's 'Changes' were released in Oct 2003. http://twitpic.com/qe1bp
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Possibly the last rejection letter from the African Writers' Series - and I got it! Feb 2003. The last titles, Daniel Mengara's 'Mema' & Ama Ata Aidoo's 'Changes' were released in Oct 2003. #fb
Nii Ayikwei Parkes If I was ever to REALLY share rejection letters, I'd have to do 20 tweets a day for months to get through them :)
Nii Ayikwei Parkes The monkey looked the buzzard right dead in the eye and said "Your story's touching but it sounds like a lie"
Nii Ayikwei Parkes RT @nikeshla: MegaLOLZ: What did the poet say to Luke Skywalker? ‘Metaphors be with you.’
Nii Ayikwei Parkes Just found out Storyteller magazine (Canada) is no more - what a pity; I loved them! Melanie Fogel was a great editor...
Nii Ayikwei Parkes my baby girl just slipped off her pyjama bottoms - not sure i like where this growing up thing is leading! you're 11 months old!
Nii Ayikwei Parkes So, I send e-mails to my 'special friends' to ask for blurbs for my mass market pb only to find they were never sent bks by RH.
Nii Ayikwei Parkes This in spite of an e-mail from May: "We have corrected the mistake in the book and are reprinting." The things publishers say!!
