By Segun Fatuase
Nduka Otiono, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator at the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University has been shortlisted for the 2022 Archibald Lampman Award.
Otiono, a Prolific writer was shortlisted for his latest Poetry Collection, DisPlace ; Adele Graf for Buckled into the Sky while David O’Meera was noted for Masses on Radar.
the three shortlisted authors will have an evening of readings from their shortlisted collections on
Monday, September 19, 2022.
The announcement of the Archibald Lampman Award winner will take place at the Ottawa Book Awards ceremony takes place on Wednesday, October 19, 2022, at Les Lye Studio at the Meridian Theatre.
‘’ We are proud to honour poets from this region, especially by presenting the Archibald Lampman Award to an outstanding collection of poetry by a National-Capital area author, ‘’ the organisers said.
Arc Poetry Magazine was founded in 1978 by three professors at Carleton University in Ottawa, on the traditional and unceded territories of the Algonquin Nation.
The jury for the 2022 award were Bertrand Bickersteth (Calgary), Peter Norman (Etobicoke), and Isabella Wang (New Westminster). The editorial board and board of directors for Arc Poetry Magazine presented the shortlist while the jury made the selection .
Otiono is an author and co-editor of eight books of creative writing and academic research. Prior to turning to academia, he was for many years a journalist in Nigeria, General Secretary of Association of Nigerian Authors, founding member of the Nigerian chapter of UNESCO’s Committee on Oral and Intangible Cultural Heritage, and founding member of the Board of the $100,000 annual Nigerian Prize for Literature.
His creative writing publications include The Night Hides with a Knife (short stories), which won the ANA/Spectrum Prize; Voices in the Rainbow (Poetry), a finalist for the ANA/Cadbury Poetry Prize; Love in a Time of Nightmares (Poetry) for which he was awarded the James Patrick Folinsbee Memorial Scholarship in Creative Writing. He has co-edited Wreaths for a Wayfarer: An Anthology of Poems in Honor of Pius Adesanmi (2020); Camouflage: Best of Contemporary Writing from Nigeria (2006); and We-Men: An Anthology of Men Writing on Women (1998).