Interviews
Smooth Book Review Special – Smooth 98.1 FM
A Dialogue with Kanyinsola Olorunnisola – Africa in Dialogue
In Conversation with Kanyinsola Olorunnisola – Syncity
Interview with Poet, Kanyinsola Olorunnisola – Gyroscope Review
Interview: Kanyinsola – TELL
FOPA Should Be Merit-Based, Not by Voting – EFIWE
Conference Presentations
Olorunnisola, K. (October 3-5, 2024). “Reel Revolution: Post-War Black Cinema as a Portrait of Liberationist Struggle in Africa and the Black Diaspora.” 2024 Northeast Popular & American Culture Association Conference. Nichols College, Dudley, Massachusetts [Invited].
Olorunnisola, K. (April 27-28, 2024). “The Avant-Garde as Vehicle for Borderlessness in Modern Black Anglo-Arabophone Poetry.” Somewhere in Between: Borders and Borderlands. London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research. London, United Kingdom.
Olorunnisola, K. (April 20-22, 2023). “Afrocentric Fashion as Pan Africanist Signaling in Post-BLM Afrofuturist Film and Literature.” 2nd Annual BillyJoe Turner Interdisciplinary Symposium. Texas Southern University. Houston, Texas.
Readings
March 28, 2025 – Tongue Tied: A QueerAWP Offsite Poetry Reading. Precinct Los Angeles.
April 18, 2024 – Pure Products Series Literary Reading. Black Warrior Brewing Co.
April 5, 2024 – Graduate Student Readings. Sella-Granata, The University of Alabama.
April 3, 2023 – 2023 Contest Winners Reading. The University of Alabama.
November 30, 2022 – Collaborative Writing: Public Reading Meets Visual Arts. The University of Alabama.
November 28, 2022 – American Idiots and their International Friends. The University of Alabama.
August 6, 2022 – Outwrite Chapbook Contest Winners Reading (Virtual). DC Center.
April 4, 2022 – MFA Contest Winners Reading. The University of Alabama.
Media Mentions
Global Voices in Creative Writing (A Profile) – The University of Alabama
Imossan wins 2024 Sillerman Prize for African Poetry – Nebraska Today
Michael Immosan Wins 2024 Sillerman Prize – University of Nebraska Press Blog
The PEN TEN with Romeo Oriogun – PEN America
Young Writers Expand the Frontier of Nigerian Literature – Guardian
2019 Writivism and Koffi Addo Shortlists Announced – Johannesburg Review of Books
2019 Short Story Day Africa Prize ‘Disruption’ longlist announced – Johannesburg Review of Books
3 Nigerians Dominate Writivism Prize Shortlist – Daily Trust
Nigerian Writer, Kanyinsola Olorunnisola, Has Won the 2020 K & L Prize – Creative Writing News
Kanyinsola Olorunnisola is K&L Prize 2020 Winner – James Murua
2020 K&L Prize Shortlist – Praxis Magazine
Top 50 Contemporary Poets Who Rocked Nigeria in 2017 – EGC
UI Students Launch Pioneer Book on Journalism – Campus Reporter
The K& L Prize 2020 Longlist Announced – Creative Writing News
Students Present Book on Journalism – The Nation Newspaper
The Courtroom Nigeria Holds 2nd Annual Induction Ceremony – The Cable.
Law Student Wins 4th ‘Fisayo Soyombo Inter-Varsity Essay Competition – The Cable
South Africans and Nigerians Dominate the Writivism Shortlists – Creative Writing News
Koffi Addo Short Story Prize 2019 Shortlist Announced – James Murua
2019 Writivism Prize Shortlist Announced – The East African Magazine
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