Ayòmide Bayowa
Ayòmide Bayowa is an award-winning Nigerian Canadian poet, actor and filmmaker. He holds a BA in Theatre and Creative Writing from the University of Toronto and is the (2021-24) poet laureate of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. He is a top-ten gold entrant of the 9th Open Eurasian Literary Festival and Book Forum, UK, and was long-listed for both the UnSerious Collective Fellowship and 2021 Adroit Journal Poetry Prize. He won first place in the 2020 July Open Drawer Poetry Contest, the June/July...See more
Ayòmide Bayowa is an award-winning Nigerian Canadian poet, actor and filmmaker. He holds a BA in Theatre and Creative Writing from the University of Toronto and is the (2021-24) poet laureate of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. He is a top-ten gold entrant of the 9th Open Eurasian Literary Festival and Book Forum, UK, and was long-listed for both the UnSerious Collective Fellowship and 2021 Adroit Journal Poetry Prize. He won first place in the 2020 July Open Drawer Poetry Contest, the June/July 2021 edition of the bimonthly Brigitte Poirson Poetry Contest (BPPC) and second place in the 2021 K. Valerie Connor Poetry Contest's Student Category. He has appeared in a long list of literary magazines, including Windsor Review , Kalahari Review , IceFloe Press, Barren Magazine , Agbowó , Guesthouse , Stone of Madness Press , Ampersand Review , Tipton Poetry Journal , The Offing and Beyond Words Literary Magazine . He is the editor-in-chief of Echelon Poetry and currently reads poetry for Adroit Journal . See less
Ayòmide Bayowa's Featured Books