I want them to feel rage, guilt, sorrow and horror all at the same time.
Enit’ayanfe Ayosojumi Akinsanya
Enit’ayanfe Ayosojumi Akinsanya is a Nigerian writer. He was shortlisted for the 2018 Dusty Manuscript GTB National Novel Prize, and for the 2023 Afritondo Short Story Prize. He won the 2022 Itanile International Short Story Award and won the First-Position Prize for the 2022 Bicontinental Arts Lounge Contest for “The Green We Left Behind” CNF Climate-Change Print Anthology. He holds a double-honors degree in English Language and Education from Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He is the author of a short-story collection, “How to Catch a Story That Doesn’t Exist”. He loves reading poetry and watching deeply human films.
Short Interview
1. Write a 10-word sentence that embodies how you understand sensory overload.
It’s an attack of all of a reader’s six senses.
2. What smell/s would your story be?
I honestly can’t say, but because of its grimness, perhaps a smoky, burning smell?
3. What did you intend your audience to feel when reading your piece?
I want them to feel rage, guilt, sorrow and horror all at the same time.
4. Describe your favorite type of light.
I like dim rooms. Bluish light. A purple wash. But if there must be effulgence, let it be orange or pink. For this story though, I would like flickers of green and red.
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