Location: South Africa
Member Since: Jan. 10, 2020

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Adiela Akoo

Biography

Adiela Akoo is a South African poet and author with a background in banking and comprehensive healing.

She has been published in a variety of anthologies and journals, was nominated as one of the Top 7 Most Promising Literary Influencers in the GBC Awards 2020, is a recipient of the prestigious DUX Award, has represented the Durban UNESCO City of Literature in various collaborations with other cities of literature, and is also the founder and editor of The Quilled Ink Review international literary journal. As an ambassador of literacy, she volunteered her time as the Vice Chair of the Literacy Association of South Africa, KZN.

Lost in a Quatrain, her soul-stirring debut collection of relatable, inspiring, and thought-provoking poetry on a journey to becoming, a journey of hope and healing, was First Runner Up for poetry in the SAIP Awards 2021.

In her spare time, Adiela loves creating arts and crafts using mixed media, watching movies, playing Scrabble or chess, creating in the kitchen, spending time with loved ones, chatting to the birds out in the garden, and the stray cats that have adopted her, among other things.

Adiela hopes to leave the world a better place through her writing.

Read her backstory and connect with her here: https://linktr.ee/Adiela.Akoo

Smashwords Interview

When did you first start writing?
My love for reading and writing stems from my mother, who encouraged me at an early age. Besides weekly trips to the local book exchange, my mum cut pictures from old magazines and stuck them in an exercise book, as prompts, and had me write about them daily. My parents divorced when I was still very young and this was my mother's way, as a single mum, of keeping me occupied while she was away at work.
What's the story behind your latest book?
I continued to write whenever I could over the years, but never considered it anything more than a hobby and a means of catharsis, until I met one of my former English teachers at a reunion, who posed the question: 'Why aren't you writing? YOU should be writing!". When I responded that I had in fact been writing, my teacher asked again: 'Then why aren't you publishing?!"

That was the initial catalyst, but I didn't pay too much heed until life, yet again, threw several bricks at me in quick succession, threatening and shaking every foundation I held dear, until I was practically cornered into publishing Lost in a Quatrain - a select collection of deep, soul stirring poetry, written over a period of 18 years, with each poem telling a story that pieces together the puzzle of this crazy, not always romantic, experience we call life...
Read more of this interview.

Where to find Adiela Akoo online

Website: https://linktr.ee/Adiela.Akoo
Twitter: @AdielaAkoo
Facebook: Facebook profile
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adiela-akoo/
Blog: https://adielaakoo.wixsite.com/writer/blog

Where to buy in print

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Adiela-Akoo/author/B07K4S83HV

Videos

#AdielaAkooQuotes
A collection of inspiring quotes by Adiela Akoo

Lost in a Quatrain, a MUSTREAD
Looking for SUBSTANCE for the Soul? Lost in a Quatrain... a MUST READ! What readers are saying: "I love this book, it touched my heart', "This helped my soul heal", "This book made me smile... and cry", "I felt as if you were writing about me", "This is soul food" Lost in a Quatrain, a collection of soul stirring poetry, written over an 18 year period, with each poem telling a story that pieces together the puzzle of this crazy, not always romantic, experience we call life...

Aloof?
Aloof? A poem by Adiela Akoo from her book Lost in a Quatrain

What do creatives get up to when they’re quiet?
What do creatives get up to when they are quiet? They CREATE , of course! - Adiela Akoo Read my blog post and more details about my experiences as an intuitive empath here: https://adielaakoo.wixsite.com/writer... You can visit my store here: https://linktr.ee/Adiela.Akoo

Books

The Quilled Ink Review - Ode to Love by
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 13,500. Language: English. Published: November 24, 2023 . Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author, Poetry » Themes & motifs » Love
Within these pages, you will find an eclectic mix of accomplished writers from across the world and yet, the language of Love, in all its shades, remains the same. It begs of you to pause for a moment, reflect, and bathe in its beauty. It begs of you to see that poetry in itself is an act of Love, an act of healing, and that the stories too urge you to dance despite the darkness.
Lost in a Quatrain by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 4,730. Language: Commonwealth English. Published: January 10, 2020 . Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry, Poetry » Biography
Lost in a Quatrain is a relatable, inspiring, thought provoking read on a journey to becoming, a journey of hope and healing. Cathartically written over 18 years, it is a select collection of deep, must-read, soul stirring poetry with each poem telling a story that pieces together the puzzle of this crazy, not always romantic, experience we call life...

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