Featured Archives - Boakye D. Alpha

10 Aug

Dear Young Creative: Inspiration Works In Mysterious Ways

For more than ten years of being a writer, I’ve grown to believe that there should never be a day that a writer doesn’t have the impulse to create something. As a creative, inspiration will show itself to you in a number of ways and you have to learn how to take advantage of that surge. However, if you still find yourself struggling with inspiration and don’t know where to start, I have got you. This article exposes you to some activities you can indulge in which will help you break out of that no-inspiration quagmire that you may have found yourself in.

29 Dec

Finding Myself, Losing it And Rediscovering It; A Short Memoir

This journey began with a dream. Growing up as a kid in a home where certain dreams were far from my reach, too rich to seem possible, all I did was dream. Being entrenched in a certain train of thoughts that limited the evolution of my foresight, all I had was my dreams.

26 Mar

Author’s Lounge: With Mónica Bacatelo Guerra, Author of Utterly Forgettable, Syn, others

Mónica Bacatelo Guerra is a writer with a background in graphic design who moonlights as a music manager. Yes, really. She is the author of Utterly Forgettable, Syn, (which is also the focus of our discussion today) written for the 2021 Open Novella Contest.

A searing satire of political corruption and social injustice from the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart.

25 Mar

Review Of Chinua Achebe’s Anthills Of the Savannah by Boakye D. Alpha

A searing satire of political corruption and social injustice from the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart. REVIEW Despite how hard it is to read at times and how you’d have to pay keen attention to know what is going on (because of the language use), one cannot say this book isn’t a gem. First, […]

21 Mar

Author’s Lounge: With L.V Lloyd, Author of Portal, Clockmaker’s Shadow, others

Attention to SPG (Spelling, grammar and punctuation) may sound unimportant but errors are often the first thing to catch a reader’s attention (and not in a good way) so that is something worth spending a bit of time on.

18 Jan

A Close Capture Of ZoeHut, A Fast Growing Literary Blog In Africa

Every writer deserves a refreshing atmosphere tinged with lines of value. ZoeWrites Literary Blog is the right place for that. ZoeWrites Literary Blog (ZoeHut) is an African literary blog, established with the aim of spreading African artful works everywhere, amidst propelling a channel for African writers and poets to be better in their craft. Through […]

5 Jan

Featured: MariamWrites Reviews Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi

I breathed a sigh of relief when I finally had a copy of Purple Hibiscus. Why? The testimonies and reviews I read on it got me really expectant and truth be told, those expectations were met, 100%. The themes in the story were not one I hadn’t read about but Chimamanda chose a unique way […]