Who is Mubarak Said

Mubarak Said, TPC XII, SprinNG & SAF Alumni, is the winner of the 2023 Bill Ward Prize For Emerging Writers (Prose) and the Threposs poetry contest. He is also the 3rd runner-up in 2022 of the Bill Ward Prize for Emerging Writers (Poetry) and longlisted in Gimba Suleiman Hassan esq poetry prize. He is an editor of the African Literary Summit Anthology, poetry reader at the White Cresset Journal and a guest contributor at Applied worldwide, US. He is a member of Jewel literary and creativity foundation and Hilltop creative arts foundation. His works are forthcoming from and published in; Brittle Paper, Kalahari review, Spillwords, Eboquills, Fevers of the mind, Ghudsavar, world voices magazine, Literary yard, Upwrite Magazine, Wellerism, Teen Literary Journal, new feathers anthology, Acedia...
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  • When Hope Dies
    My heart sank in thoughts
    And my eyes cried in vain
    When I couldn't see the love sign
    In your eyes that shine bright. ...
  • Travel
    To the sanctuary where;
    Different atrocious monsters
    Chasing men to have their catch.
    ...
  • Hope And Grief
    we showed-up queuing like masquerades
    parading the city of smoke,
    singing an intoned songs
    and reading the poems of a requiem ...
  • Agonies Of A Caged Lad
    I never know the water I used
    to wash my face and
    to quench my thirst—were the remains
    of the flooded eyes of my fathers. ...
  • Caged
    I'm now a sun bird, leaning on the edge
    Of the prison staircase – weak and exhausted.

    As i inhaled the slavery scent, ...
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