Dorcas Odok is a Nigerian poet and short story writer. She writes to eradicate societal stratification of gender roles among many things, to also deconstruct and reconstruct gender complementarity and other societal mishaps. Her poems are geared towards violence, pain, voicelessness, loss as well as a portrayal of hope.
Dorcas uses her poems to address these defects as she seeks for a resolve, comfort and or balance in these urgent societal concerns. She also hopes to make her poems a home for weary souls– a place where one can find oneself in a different light. She is also a strong believer in humanity, and she explores this concern in her writings.
She won the Linda Imoke Essay Competition (2013) and the University of Calabar Literary Contest, Poetry Category (2019). She has been shortlisted for the Hilltop Creative Foundation Prize for Short Stories (2020).
Her works have been published on Shuzia.com (2020); SprinkleStoriez.blogspot.com (2018); Aceworld Publishers (2020) etc. When she is not reading or writing, Dorcas can be found drawing or making beautiful calligraphies.
Dorcas uses her poems to address these defects as she seeks for a resolve, comfort and or balance in these urgent societal concerns. She also hopes to make her poems a home for weary souls– a place where one can find oneself in a different light. She is also a strong believer in humanity, and she explores this concern in her writings.
She won the Linda Imoke Essay Competition (2013) and the University of Calabar Literary Contest, Poetry Category (2019). She has been shortlisted for the Hilltop Creative Foundation Prize for Short Stories (2020).
Her works have been published on Shuzia.com (2020); SprinkleStoriez.blogspot.com (2018); Aceworld Publishers (2020) etc. When she is not reading or writing, Dorcas can be found drawing or making beautiful calligraphies.