User:Ayòmide Bayowa/sandbox

Ayomide Bayowa is an award-winning Nigerian Canadian poet and filmmaker, who started off in 2018, on a shortlist for the Christopher Okigbo Inter-University Poetry Prize, then the longlist for the Nigerian Students Poetry Prize. He is the (2021-24) poet laureate of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, a top-ten gold entrant of the 9th Open Eurasian Literary Festival U.K, and a long list of the 2021 Adroit Journal Poetry Prize. His collection of poems, 'Gills' (a semi-finalist of the 2021 Cave Canem Poetry Prize), is published in Spring (2023) by Buckrider Books, Ontario, Canada.