Wale Ayinla, a Nigerian poet, essayist, and editor, has won the 2020 Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize for his manuscript To Cast a Dream. In it, Ayinla deftly explores loss, grief, hope, and movement. The prize is “dedicated to the discovery of exceptional chapbook-length manuscripts by Black poets.” The finalists were Christopher Rose for Stage Dive, Alexa Patrick for Remedies for Disappearing, and kiki nicole for Autobiography of Boi Venus.
Ayinla wrote the poems in To Cast a Dream between 2018 and 2019.
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