Western Post Reporter gets international recognition
Western Post Lagos State Government House Correspondent, Adeola Ogunrinde, has grabbed an international recognition.
Ogunrinde has been signed into one of the Indie publishing Houses in the United Kingdom, Fairlight Books UK.
She thus becomes Nigeria’s first author to be signed into the publishing house, which has a lot of A-list writers including the British-Egyptian writer, Ola Mustapha, who published a short story with Fairlight Books in 2022 titled “A woman cries in a swimming pool”.
And by July 2023, Ola Mustapha’s novel “Other Names, Other Places” was also published by Fairlight Books.
Ogunrinde’s short story “My Mother’s Voice” will first be published November 2 on Fairlight Books website as she hopes to work with her Editor at Fairlight Books, Sarah Shaw, on other projects of hers in the not too distant future.
Fairlight Books have published award winning novels in recent years including Bottled Goods by Sophie van LIewyn which was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019 in UK.
Ogunrinde joined Western Post Newspaper at inception in February 2014 as a reporter covering Lagos State House, Alausa, Ikeja. Two years later, she was promoted to Correspondent, based on her satisfactory performance.
She was retained on that important beat even when the newspaper transformed into an online platform in 2015.
