“If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own”
– Chinua Achebe
Who we are
LIBRETTO is a publishing company, bookstore & an Africa’s most finest online magazine of arts and publishing that aims to publish the works of new/emerged and established writers and artists and all kinds of literary electronic publication and distribution of EBook across Africa and the world at large. We aim to publish fine and qualified works considering race and themes. We so much believe that literature and arts should be celebrated for their aesthetics. We want to inform, educate, exposing morals and ideals. We also define new voices as those with qualities, new theme, style and form. We publish the monthly, biannually and chapbook. Submissions are accepted only via the submissions-guidelines page/. A call for submissions are made in monthly (from January-March & July-September), biannually (from June & December) and Chapbook (December to February) every year.
Origin
Nosakhare Collins founded this literary platform on 1st March, 2019 aims of collecting and publishing fine and qualified works considering race and themes. We so much believe that literature and arts should be celebrated for their aesthetics. We want to inform, educate, exposing morals and ideals. We also define new voices as those with qualities, new theme, style and form.
What we do
Monthly, Biannual and Chapbook Prize
The Libretto Submissions are accepted only via the submissions-guidelines page/. A call for submission is made in MONTHLY from January – March & July – September. BIANNUALLY, from April 1st (June issue) October 1st (December issue) and CHAPBOOK PRIZE, from December – February every year. Writers take note that late submissions will be disregarded.
ONLINE PUBLICATION
From our issues published
issue 01
issue 02: Fragmented Palettes
From our chapbooks published
City of smoke by Mujahid Ameen Lilo
M A S T H E A D
Nosakhare Collins
Founding editor/ Publisher
Dhee Sylvester
Assistant Editor
Ifeoluwa Aiki
Creative Designer
Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto
Poetry Editor
Taiye Ojo
Poetry Editor
Ubaji Isiaka Abubakar Eazy
Short Story Editor
Akpa Arinzachukwu
Non-fiction Editor
David Chukwu
Fiction Editor
Okoemu Okoemu Okoemu
Essay Editor
Ben Ige
Drama Editor
Kofi Acquah
Review Editor
John Vincent Chizoba
Photography Editor
Adenifuja Adetokunbo
Virtual Art Editor
CHAPBOOK EDITOR
Francis Annagu
Chisom Okafor
BOARD OF ADVISOR
Tendai .R. Mwanaka
Jide Badmus
D.M. Aderibigbe