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10/15/2024
In Time (Demo/Experimental) by David Agyei-Yeboah
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David Agyei-Yeboah
Writer/Artist
Ghana
David Agyei-Yeboah is a poet, writer and musician from Accra, Ghana. Disillusioned with his educational trajectory, he quit Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Law School and University of Ghana, Legon Law School respectively from 2014-2015 to pursue a passion in the creative arts. He now holds a first-class degree (Hons.) in English and Theatre Arts as well as a Masters in Communication Studies from the University of Ghana. He is committed to pushing boundaries in art and his work explores the hybrid and experimental as well as the relationship between text, sound and performance.
Contact: [email protected]
Published work:
In 2020, he published poetry in Praxis Magazine for Arts and Literature & AfricanWriter.com.
In 2021, he published poetry in the Kalahari Review and hybrid work in Icefloe Press.
In 2022, he published poetry and fiction in Ta Adesa, Journal of the Writers Project of Ghana (JWPG), Contemporary Ghanaian Writers' Series (CGWS), Kalahari Review, GUEST(above/ground press), Afritondo, Lumiere Review and Writers Space Africa - Ghana.
In 2023, he published poetry, fiction and book review work in Decolonial Passage, AfricanWriter.com, Deep Overstock, Tampered Press, Poetry for Mental Health, The Quilled Ink Review, Freshwater Literary Journal, Afritondo, Corporeal, Writers Space Africa - Ghana, trash to treasure literary, Mister Magazine, Mag 20/20 and Literally Stories.
In 2024, he published poetry, fiction and hybrid work in Ethel Zine & Micro Press, Juste Literary, Penumbra Journal of Literature and Art (California State University), Arts Lounge Magazine and Akowdee Magazine.
In 2025, he published poetry and fiction in contronimo, Flash Flood Journal (2025 UK National Flash Fiction Day Volume), Libretto Publishers, Ink in Thirds Magazine, sabr tooth tiger magazine, Tales and Whispers, Ikike Arts, Afrocritik, Muse and Fury Lit, Teambooktu: The Webcitadel and Literary Yard Journal.
In 2026, he has published/forthcoming poetry, fiction, hybrid work and excerpts in Barzakh Magazine (University at Albany, SUNY), Product Magazine (University of Southern Mississippi), Numen of Story, Reckon Review, Blood + Honey Lit and Croppa (an imprint of Seaweed Books).
Literary Acclaim:
In 2026, his flash fiction 'ADEABA' was listed as one of the Top Ten trending articles on Teambooktu in 2025.
In 2025, his short story 'MIDNIGHTS' was selected by Afrocritik's Literature Board for the 50 Remarkable Short Stories of 2025 list. This list featured the best English-language fiction from Africa published in the year.
In 2025, he won the Webmaster Award at Teambooktu for being nominated twice; in their Flash Fiction and Poetry competitions respectively.
In 2025, his flash fiction 'ADEABA' was longlisted for the Kene Offor-Teambooktu Flash Fiction Contest.
In 2024, his short story 'Kiin Kiin Kiin’ was chosen and included in the Top Ten Stories of All Time list at Literally Stories (UK) from a pool of over 3000 stories published over a decade.
In 2024, his poem 'Inferno' was shortlisted for the Kene Offor-Teambooktu Poetry Contest from a pool of over 250 poems all over Africa.
In 2023, his full-length manuscript, OUR SPIRITS YEARN FOR HOME, which is now out on submissions, won the Kofi Awoonor Literary Prize, awarded by the University of Ghana English Department and the family of the late literary luminary, Kofi Awoonor.
Head judge, Professor Kofi Anyidoho, a distinguished academic and poet, described the manuscript as "too good” at Kofi Awoonor’s 10th year anniversary ceremony.
In 2023, his manuscript, OUR SPIRITS YEARN FOR HOME was nominated for the Totally Free Best of the Bottom Drawer Global Writing Prize from the Black Spring Press Group, UK.
In 2023, his flash fiction 'DESI' was shortlisted for the European Union (EU) Delegation Prize.
In 2022, his chapbook manuscript, EBONY, HUT AND SKIN was shortlisted for Ursus Americanus and was a finalist for Harbor Editions (Small Harbor Publishing).
In 2021, he was longlisted for the Totally Free Best of the Bottom Drawer Global Writing Prize from the Black Spring Press Group, UK.
Manuscript on Submission:
OUR SPIRITS YEARN FOR HOME, a novel in fragments that uses the trauma of a Ghanaian male as leeway to explore the collective trauma of modern Ghana and the journey to healing and redemption. It fuses prose, poetry, commentary and song to explore life in contemporary Ghanaian society. This manuscript is in the tradition of Jean Toomer's CANE, Max Porter's GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS and Ama Ata Aidoo's OUR SISTER KILLJOY.
Music:
David's debut album, BLEEDING GUMS (tentative/work-in-progress), is the artistic sibling to OUR SPIRITS YEARN FOR HOME and is intended to be in conversation with the thematic concerns of the book, foregrounding his first interdisciplinary project.
He already has a demo tape out on Soundcloud (6 tracks), titled IN TIME that is a fusion of pop, R&B/soul, hip-hop, electronic and dancehall. Knock yourselves out!
