SALA - Sentinel Annual Literature Anthology

Sentinel Annual Literature Anthology

POEMS. SHORT STORIES. PLAYS.

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SALA 2012

ISBN: 978-0-9568101-3-7

SALA 2011

ISBN 978-0-9568101-0-6

Sentinel Annual Literature Anthology (SALA) is a yearly publication of new poetry, short fiction and plays by SPM Publications - the publishing division of Sentinel Poetry Movement.

SALA 2012

SALA 2012 was withdrawn just before it went on sale do to some serious editorial issues that we needed to resolve. These issues have now been resolved and we have resumed the process of releasing this book. It has now been firmly scheduled into our programme for the 30th of September 2013. We had initially rescheduled it for July, but this was not practicable. Please bear with us. Please check this page for any announcements regarding the publication.

SALA 2012 features the following authors.

PLAYS

RANI DREW - Eggs for Education

AFRICA UKOH - God for Sale

JOHN BYRNE - Providence

NNOROM AZUONYE - This Thing Called Black

ISAAC OGEZI – Who Will Love My Son?

SHORT STORIES

ROME ABOH – One Friday

SYLVA NZE IFEDIGBO – Will You Hug Me Today?

NORBERT UZO ODONWODO – Odiche

ABA AMISSAH ASIBON – Carrying Loads

LOUISE PESKETT – All the Simple Things

AMANDA SINGTON-WILLIAMS – The Piano Player

UZO CHIMELU – Back

TEMITAYO OLOFINLUA – Waiting for a Lottery

MAEVE HENRY – Saturdays, Always the Same

RANI DREW – The Habitat

OMOTAYO YUSUF – The Strike

CHINELO ONWUALU – Unwritten

POEMS

ERNST MORAWETZ – A Bright Morning

ANDY N – Journey

ANULI ABRAHAMS – I Have not been Built by Human Hands

CSILLA TOLDY – Plus

– Prayer

JENNIE OWEN – Machinist

– Fickle Heart

KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE – Auroral Notes

– Holkham

JOHN STOCKS – Last Man Standing

MAEVE HENRY – Playtime

BYRON BENYON – The California Condor

EKWEREMADU FRANKLIN UCHENNA – On the Road Again.

MICHAEL TREACY – Contrasting World

SARA-MAY TUSON – Diddle, Diddle

- The World is a Burial Ground (I)

HAJO ISA – Silent Page

DAVID OSU – Scarscape

EMMANUELLA NDUONOFIT – Incarcerated in Parenthesis

GREG MOORE – Complexion

JUMOKE VERISSIMO – Redemption Call

ISMAIL BALA GARBA – The Painter

TADE IPADEOLA – Signs of the Times: Parts 5,6 & 7

CHRIS ABANI – Refugees

UNOMA AZUAH – Mauritania

ANGELA A. NWOSU – Listless

ADEEKO IBUKUN – At Ajingi

DILIZA L. MADIKIZA – Somersaulting Sands

TERRY JONES – The Dog Eating the Dictionary

TONGO EISEN MARTIN – For Revere and Lane

Sentinel Annual Literature Anthology 2012

ISBN: 978-0-9568101-3-7

Editors: Nnorom Azuonye (Plays), Unoma Azuah (Poems), Amanda Sington-Williams (Short Stories).

SALA 2011

The first book in the SALA series published in November 2011 was edited by Unoma Azuah, author of Sky-High Flames, and Edible Bones (Poems), Amanda Sington-Williams, author of The Eloquence of Desire (Short Stories), and Nnorom Azuonye, author of Letter to God & Other Poems and The Bridge Selection (Plays). The book also features additional poems chosen by Roger Elkin, author of Fixing Things and Blood Brothers, from the Sentinel Annual Poetry Competition (2010) of which he was judge.

Works featured in SALA have been contributed by authors from Hong Kong, Nigeria, the USA, Australia and the United Kingdom among other countries. Here we have an exciting mix of voices dealing with issues from everyday to the unusual.

Authors featured include: Nicholas Y.B. Wong, Byron Beynon, Hajo Isa, Rusyan Sopian, Nsuhoridem Okon, Abigail George, Katie McDermott, Zino Asalor, Nike Adesuyi, Unoma Azuah, Angel Propps, Amanda Sington-Williams, Mel Ross-Macdonald, Jill Richter, Tendai Tshakisani Makavani, Michael Spring, Catherine Smith, Callum Patrick Hughes, Angela Amalonye Nwosu, Nnorom Azuonye, Hannah Lowe, Gary Smillie, Derek Sellen, W.F. Lantry, Christian Ward, Wally Smith, Jane Moreton, Carolyn King, Jonathan Davidson, and Paul Groves.

What's inside? The contents of SALA 2011 and some excerpts are available here >