• $8000-$15,000 Rainforest Reporting Grant

    The Rainforest Reporting Grant is the evolution of the Rainforest Journalism Fund (RJF), designed to support and strengthen independent journalism in the Amazon, the Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia. Over the past five years, the RJF has supported more than 300 reporting projects involving over 600 journalists, resulting in more than 1,700 published reports. These…

  • The Green We Left Behind: Nigeria Climate Crisis Visual Narrative 16

    Title: Mother earth Location: Lokoja, Kogi State Artist: Dikachi Narrative: Lokoja flood, Kogi state, Nigeria. We are fragile and vulnerable, so we should stop actions that bring mother earth to tears.

  • The Green We Left Behind: Nigeria Climate Crisis Visual Narrative 12

    Title: Desolate Artist: Lilian C. Pilaku Narrative: The constant deforestation, bush burning and other forms of exploitation of our forests make them desolate, grey and gloomy.

  • The Green We Left Behind: Nigeria Climate Crisis Visual Narrative 9

    Title: Displaced Location: Lokoja, Kogi State Artist: Anuna Tobechukwu Narrative: The variations in rainfall patterns due to Climate Change result in disasters like flooding, the loss of lives, properties and livelihood. This is the recent story of the people of Lokoja in Kogi state.

  • Dirge to Harmattan: Announcing the Winner

    Arts Lounge Literary Magazine is proud to announce the winners of the “Dirge to Harmattan” Poetry Contest, a call that invited poets across Nigeria to mourn, remember, and reimagine the fading breath of harmattan in the face of climate change. We received a remarkable number of entries, poems that carried dust, memory, grief, and longing.…

  • I Sing Lost Dust by Ndubuisi Aluu Orji

    I sing of the days when the North winds wove whirlwindSpirals of dust and dry leavesAnd, wearing the dust on our feet as stockingsWe would race about as carefree as the icy air itselfI sing of chapped lips and loving mothers’ fingers laden withVaseline to soothe the cracksI know when we stretched cold hands over…

  • Elegy for the Lost Frost by Rachael Ajisafe

    Harmattan, ọ̀rẹ́ atijọ́, do you remember us?Once we counted your fingers on our zinc roofs,and held our breath in white mornings,our lips cracking prayers into the air.School bells rang through sweaters and stiff knuckles.Now, the dawn coughs with heat,and dust lies like forgotten bones across the streets.We search the sky for your shadow,but December limps…

  • A Piece of Ourselves by Otiegbe Ikenna Charles

    We ran through the streets with our cheeksburning from the cold, and our laughter chasingthe wind that carried the stories from the far edgesof the land.Smoke rose from the fires in the distance,and every step we took left a trace in the ochresand,as if the earth remembered us.Now, the mornings are softer,the cold uncertain,the dust…

  • The Green We Left Behind: Nigeria Climate Crisis Visual Narrative 6

    Title: The Flood 10/22 Location: Nigeria Artist: Oyim Godfrey Inya (Oyimkudos Arts)

  • Announcing the Shortlist: Dirge to Harmattan

    We are pleased to announce the shortlist for the Dirge to Harmattan Poetry Contest, a special call for Nigerian poets to reflect on the changing climate and the fading memory of harmattan. Dirge to Harmattan contest invited poets to mourn the disappearance of the familiar cold winds, dusty skies, and quiet mornings that once defined the…

  • Ecological Progress around the World

    In a world saturated with ecological grief—melting ice caps, burning forests, poisoned waters—it has become easy to believe that the earth is only ever losing. Yet, beyond the noise, something quieter is happening: the planet is healing itself.Below are some of the most promising ecological developments from around the world. 1) Giant Pandas and the…

  • Dirge to Harmattan: Call for Submission

    Call for Submissions: Dirge to Harmattan (The Green We Left Behind Poetry Contest) Arts Lounge Literary Magazine invites Nigerian poets to submit entries for Dirge to Harmattan, a national poetry contest under The Green We Left Behind initiative. Dirge to Harmattan calls for poems that mourn the gradual disappearance of harmattan due to climate change.…

  • The Green We Left Behind: Nigeria Climate Crisis Visual Narrative 2

    Title: Greener Pastures Artist: Ayomide Ogechi Narrative: Landscape of Africa’s most beautiful campus, Nigeria. Deforestation causes climate change. There’s a saying that “the grass is greener on the other side.” The truth is that the grass only gets greener when we water it.

  • The Visitor From Space Who overstays Its Welcome| Poetry| Philip Chijioke Abonyi

    Dancing hibiscus, furious wind, unpleasant dust, Catholic of leaves waving in space, deserted noises in total horizon’s break, the world rumbles. mothers gather stubborn clothing: birds in the wind hovering, the metal man of heaven speaks through the microphone, children escape through doors, their bones screaming in the cold, the windows slap the walls in…

  • Open Call for Submission with Close Deadlines!!!

    Dear reader, are you looking for literary journals, honorarium or not, to submit your creative writing to? The Arts Lounge Magazine has got you covered. We have gathered a list of magazines you can submit to this May. Spice your work up, it’s that time again! Four Tulips Accepts: Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry  Submission Window:…

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