Longlisted Poem: “Case for an alternative mode of surrender”
Sa’ada Isa Yahaya is a member of Hill-Top Creative Arts Foundation, Abuja. She is a three-time winner of the On-the-Spot Poetry Prize, the Art Place Poetry Slam and the Lady Ejiro Umukoro Prize for Emerging Writers, as well as the recipient of the Star Prize Award (Female) at HIASFEST. She has been nominated for the Creators of Justice Literary Award (Youth Category), the Kofi Awoonor Poetry Prize 2025, and the National Copyright Commission Award. She is also a finalist for the Wakaso Poetry Prize, the Akachi Chukwuemeka Prize for Literature, The Folorunsho Editor’s Poetry Prize, the BCD UTULU Prize for Literature and the Idumaese Alao Prize for Literature. Her works appear or are forthcoming in Blue Marble Review, Còn-Scìò, Molecule, Kalahari Review, and elsewhere.