Michael Imossan and 5 other Nigerian Poets Make the HUES Scholar Summer 2024 List

The Hellebore Press has selected Nigerian poet, Michael Imossan, as one of the scholars for their Summer 2024 HUES Foundation Scholar program. 

Michael Imossan is a poet, playwright and editor of Ibibio origin. He is the author of the award-winning chapbook For the Love of Country and Memory (poetrycolumnnd, 2022) as well as the pamphlet A Prelude to Caving (Konya Shamsrumi, 2023). 

Imossan’s full length manuscript, Broken in Three places, was named semi-finalist for the Sillerman Prize for African Poetry, 2023 and his full length manuscript “All that Refuses to Die” was named winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, 2024. 

His chapbook, The Smell of Absence, was selected by Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani for inclusion in the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Boxset.

He is a recipient of the PEN International writers grant.

The HUES Foundation is an educational non-profit organization that is committed to creative expression and innovation among BIPOC artists, writers, musicians, and poets.

Other Nigerians selected for the HUES Scholar Summer ‘24 cohort include Fadilah Ali, Sumayya Jaeh, Nnenna Loveth (American-Nigerian), Praise Osawaru and Adesiyan Oluwapelumi