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Vanessa Onwuemezi

Vanessa Onwuemezi is a writer and poet living in London. She won the White Review Short Story Prize in 2019 and her work has appeared in frieze and Prototype. Her debut story collection, Dark Neighbourhood, was published in 2021 and was named one of the Guardian’s Best Books of 2021. It was shortlisted for both the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the Edge Hill Prize in 2022.

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In Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition

In Conversation

Vanessa Onwuemezi & Colin Herd

‘Words only point to experience, they can’t replace it.’

Vanessa Onwuemezi and Colin Herd discuss UFOs, relation, and the search for an inner sense of home.

Podcasts | The Online Edition
Podcasts | The Online Edition

Podcast | Vanessa Onwuemezi

Vanessa Onwuemezi

‘I think sometimes that when things are really explained to you, you kind of cheat someone from experiencing a deeper feeling.’

Vanessa Onwuemezi talks about her book Dark Neighbourhood.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 161 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 161 padlock

Brother

Vanessa Onwuemezi

‘Brother, to be your sister is to confront the possibility of having been other than I am.’

Vanessa Onwuemezi on the meaning of sisterhood.

Fiction | Issue 156 padlock
Fiction | Issue 156 padlock

Cuba

Vanessa Onwuemezi

‘The hotel is pink all over, as the bitten inside of her mouth, as her dark father’s radiant bottom lip’.

A story by Vanessa Onwuemezi, from her collection Dark Neighbourhood.

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