Nii Ayikwei Parkes
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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Birthday:
1974
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Amma
Amma
Mariska
Mariska

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Nii Ayikwei Parkes

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

5 hours ago via Selective Twitter Status
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes new musings - very interested in what people think: http://tr.im/FQkr

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Nii Ayikwei Parkes my beloved N11, more constant than a 7-11 :)

Tue at 5:15pm via Selective Twitter Status
Tej Agheda
Tej Agheda
i thought you were refering to a postcode in london
Yesterday at 3:20pm
Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Nii Ayikwei Parkes
no, a bus route :)
9 hours ago
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes Returning from a gig in Bratislava. Just found out Queens Quarterly (CA) have accepted my short story 'Wood' - good times!

Tue at 4:30pm via Selective Twitter Status
Linda
Linda
NIIICCCEEE! Congrats.. keep them flowing. You sure make us proud.
Tue at 5:14pm
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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!

November 21 at 11:12am via Selective Twitter Status
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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.

November 21 at 11:10am via Selective Twitter Status
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes
@Amma, yes - I haven't got a French publisher yet, but Sika has translated a little bit of my novel because like me she's West African, gets the context, the language, the nuance... and the translation is beautiful. hopefully we'll get a deal soon, but for me I think I have found (well, actually, she found me) the perfect translator for my work into French
November 21 at 1:40pm
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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
| http://twitter.com/BlueBirdTail

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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
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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 :)

November 21 at 10:54am via Selective Twitter Status
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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"

November 21 at 6:30am via Selective Twitter Status
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes
See, you can always tell the true music lovers :) !
3 hours ago
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes RT @nikeshla: MegaLOLZ: What did the poet say to Luke Skywalker? ‘Metaphors be with you.’

November 20 at 8:30am via Selective Twitter Status
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes
@Adrienne, that's what I thought! @Amma, drop me an e-mail...
November 21 at 10:21am
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes Just found out Storyteller magazine (Canada) is no more - what a pity; I loved them! Melanie Fogel was a great editor...

November 20 at 8:18am via Selective Twitter Status
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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!

November 20 at 1:58am via Selective Twitter Status
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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.

November 20 at 1:20am via Selective Twitter Status
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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!!

November 18 at 8:18pm via Selective Twitter Status
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes So glad someone noticed my publishers STILL haven't got my bio in my novel! First review from the African continent http://tr.im/FgC7

November 18 at 8:13pm via Selective Twitter Status