{"id":884,"date":"2024-11-25T19:52:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T19:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/person\/gboyega-odubanjo\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T16:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T15:49:09","slug":"gboyega-odubanjo","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/gboyega-odubanjo\/","title":{"rendered":"Gboyega Odubanjo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gboyega Odubanjo (1996\u20132023) was born and raised in East London. He was the author of three poetry pamphlets: <em>While I Yet Live<\/em> (Bad Betty Press, 2019); <em>Two stops short of Barking<\/em> (The Alternative School of Economics, 2021); and <em>Aunty Uncle Poems<\/em> (The Poetry Business \/ New Poets List, 2021), winner of the Michael Marks Award and an Eric Gregory Award. <em>Adam<\/em>, his debut full collection, was published by Faber &amp; Faber in 2024. A Barbican Young Poets alumnus, Odubanjo was an editor at <em>bath magg <\/em>and Bad Betty Press, co-chair of <em>Magma<\/em> and a member of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective, after which he later became a Roundhouse Resident Artist. He was a Creative Writing Tutor on the Creative Future IMPART programme, supporting writers from under-represented backgrounds. His UK garage single \u2018LDN GRLS\u2019 with Love Remain is out with the Sony Music UK label Black Butter Records. The Gboyega Odubanjo Foundation for low-income Black writers was established in 2023 to honour his legacy. <em>Author p<\/em><em>hoto \u00a9 Asare Debrah<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gboyega Odubanjo (1996\u20132023) was born and raised in East London. He was the author of three poetry pamphlets: While I Yet Live (Bad Betty Press, 2019); Two stops short of Barking (The Alternative School of Economics, 2021); and Aunty Uncle Poems (The Poetry Business \/ New Poets List, 2021), winner of the Michael Marks Award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":885,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-884","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}