Longlisted Poem: “Metadata of a Living Ghost”
Edith Bernard Udoeyop writes from memory, through silence, and towards becoming. Writing under the name The Edithion, she approaches poetry as an act of retrieval—of voice, of self, and of what resists articulation. She is a second-place winner of the Morgan Ekanem Poetry Prize, and was named among the Top 10 Content Creators by the Brilliant Entrepreneur and Writer’s Academy (BEWA). Her practice is shaped by training in scriptwriting and performance, influencing her attention to rhythm, voice, and structure. She works as a writer, editor, proofreader, and diction tutor, with a commitment to clarity, expressive precision, and the transformative power of language.