Festival Guests 2023
savio

Poet and publisher, Servio Gbadamosi is a recipient of the 2016 Ebedi International Writers Residency fellowship. His poetry collection, A Tributary in Servitude won the 2015 Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2018 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. His second poetry collection, Where the Light Enters You was a finalist for the inaugural Pan African Writers Association Poetry Prize.

Gbadamosi's works have been translated into Chinese, French, Yoruba, and appeared online as well as in newspapers and journals such as People Daily (Australia/New Zealand), The Guardian, The Nigerian Tribune, The Nation, Nigerian NewsDirect, ANA Review 2017, 2018 and 2019 editions. And in anthologies such as, In the Middle of All This Fire: The Noirledge Anthology of Short Fiction, SỌ̀RỌ̀SÓKÈ: An #EndSars Anthology amongst others.

He currently heads Noirledge, an independent publishing house mainstreaming new voices on the Nigerian writing scene.