Yewande Adenike Akinse

Yewande Adenike Akinse is a Poet and Author of two collections of poetry, titled, "A tale of being, of green and of ing" (2019) and Voices: A collection of poems that tell stories (2016).

Her poems have appeared in Clay Literary, Trampset, Galleyway, Afritondo, Shuf Poetry, The Open Culture Collective, Lumiere Review, Dipity Magazine, The Unconventional Courier, The Agam Agenda, The Creative Zine, Konya Shamsrumi, Sevhage, Moremi Review, Tampered Press, Nightingale and Sparrow, Versopolis, Auvert Magazine, Panocha Zine, Visual Verse, Pride Magazine and elsewhere.

She is the winner of the World Bank YouthActonEDU Poetry Prize, the Project Knucklehead prize for creative rebellion, The Guardian Newspaper Poetry prize and the Fidelity Bank prize for creative writing.