User:Obinnaudenwe

Obinna Udenwe is the award winning author of Satans & Shaitans - a conspiracy crime fiction set against the backdrop of the ongoing terrorist tension in Nigeria. Satans and Shaitans was published in November 2014 by Jacaranda Books, UK, and in 2015 by AMAB Books, Nigeria.

Obinna Udenwe wrote the controversial church erotica, Holy Sex,  first as a series on Brittle Paper magazine and later, due to the success of the series,  as a novela.

In May 2014, during the commemoration of Nigeria's Democracy Day, Obinna Udenwe received the State Literary Icon award from His Excellency, the Governor of Ebonyi State, Chief Martin Elechi. In 2012, he received the African International Achievers Award from AFIA, UK. In 2009 he won the prestigious National Top12 Award - a National award for Nigerian youth activists organized by Youngstars Development Initiative, the Federal Ministry of Youth Development and British Council, Nigeria. In 2016, his story 'Men are Fools' won the inaugural edition of The Short Story is Dead Prize and in 2015, he won the ANA Prize for Prose Fiction for his novel, Satans & Shaitans.

Obinna Udenwe's story ‘Searching’ appeared in 'The 2013 Naija Stories anthology titled 'Icatha: the Soul Eater' and in ANA Review 2012. His short stories have appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Temz Review, Brittle Paper, The Village Square Journal, Afro Vibe Magazine, Expound Magazine  The Kalahari Review, Tribe-write Magazine, and Flair Magazine.

His stories have been anthologized in 'African Roar 2014' 'Dreams at Dawn' and 'The Short Story is Dead, Long Live the Short Story' anthologies vol. 1 & 2. His short stories have also been published in Kadunaboy, Outside In Magazine, Yimu Central, Ebedi Review, Fiction365, Book Republic, Nigerianstalk Litmag, and several others around the world.

Obinna is the initiator and the lead-facilitator of a creative writing workshop – the 'Ugreen Foundation's Youth Creativity Class', that holds in Abakaliki, in South Eastern Nigeria and trains between 20 to 30 budding writers annually.