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PROOF OF LIFE

Fall Chapbook Cohort limited editions are wrapping up and mailing soon. Ty all for your patience. We look forward to nice ratings and reviews on Goodreads from 10/23 onward!

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Proof of Life.

Standard editions are binding & mailing. Check your inbox for alerts. Check your mailbox in the next few days.

Fall Chapbook Cohort is coming soon on 10/23.

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It’d about damn time we get the fall cohort ready for print. 4 amazing chapbooks coming your way in just over a month. 🖨️ 🪡 📬

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Today’s the day, Fall Cohort!

Thirty West is thrilled to publish this 4-person chapbook project, filled with so much poetry and fiction that you will be thankful for their writing.

Preorders are open now. Limited-edition saddle-stitched or classic staples. Read more in our Thirty West shop page.

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✨ FEATURED SPOKEN WORD ARTIST | Damilola Oyedeji (Ariella) ✨

Nigerians in West Texas (NIWT) is proud to present Damilola Oyedeji (Ariella), an internationally published Nigerian poet, essayist, literary critic, and Ph.D. student at Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

Her work has appeared in acclaimed literary journals and award-winning anthologies across the world, where she explores themes of identity, culture, resilience, migration, and the human experience through the power of words.

Join us as Damilola takes the stage with a captivating poetry recital celebrating the beauty, strength, and richness of Nigerian heritage.

🇳🇬 NIWT Annual Nigerian Cultural Day 2026

📅 Saturday, July 18, 2026
📍 Bush Convention Center
105 N. Main Street
Midland, TX
🕒 Red Carpet: 3:00 PM
🎉 Program Begins Promptly: 4:00 PM

🎟️ Admission is FREE!

Register today:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/annual-nigeria-cultural-day-2026-the-nigerian-cultural-experience-tickets-1986318246345

Come celebrate Nigerian culture, excellence, and creativity with us!

#NIWTCulturalDay2026 #NigeriansInWestTexas #SpokenWord #Poetry #TexasTech NigerianExcellence MidlandTX CelebrateCulture

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Bach trip made it out of the group chat ✅🫡

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We wrap up 2026 creative masterclasses with an essay writing session by the brilliant and gifted Damilola Oyedeji.

Damilola Oyedeji is a Nigerian poet, essayist, and literary critic. Her work explores intersectional discourses of Black bodies experiences. Damilola is the author of the forthcoming chapbook Blue Scapes, with Thirty West Publishing House, PA.

A Best of the Net nominee, as well as recipient of the 2026 William Walker Excellence in Critical Writing Award, the 2025 Robert Henigan Critical Essay Award, and the C.H. Gelin Graduate Fellowship Award, her works have appeared in LLIDS Journal, Lolwe, Orange Blossom Review, The Shallow Tales Review, Brittle Paper, The Nigeria Review, Talon Review, Belfast Review, Poetry Journal, the Sprinng Writing Fellowship 2023 Anthology, and elsewhere.

A past fellow of the Sprinng Writing Fellowship herself, Damilola mentors emerging writers in creative nonfiction through the Sprinng Writing Fellowship. She is a PhD student in Creative Writing at Texas Tech University and holds a master’s degree in English from Missouri State University.

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Please welcome the Fall 2026 cohort: Christina Tudor, Tom Snarsky, Damilola Oyedeji, & Guillermo Filice Castro. We cannot wait to publish these unique chapbooks & this quartet in the TW catalog. Coming out this October!

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Great year with great people 3 months late

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