Longlisted/Shortlisted Poem: “Transgressors”
ADESIYAN OLUWAPELUMI is a medical student, poet, essayist and the poetry editor of Fiery Scribe Review from Nigeria. Amongst other honours, he won the 2025 Gbemisola Adeoti Poetry Prize, and has been an Adroit Journal Summer Program, SprinNG Writers’ and HUES Foundation fellow. His works are featured in The Republic, Electric Literature, Only Poems, 20.35 Africa, Isele Magazine, Poetry Sango-Ota, A Long House, Brittle Paper, Fantasy Magazine, Poet Lore, Tab Journal, Poetry Wales and elsewhere. His chapbook “Mouthful with Cinders” was selected by Chris Abani and Kwame Dawes for the APBF New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Box-set Series (Akashic Books).