THE COUNTERFEED™

We feed you what the canon won’t.

The CounterFeed™ is a gate-free, anti-canon drift library — a growing archive of tools, readings, lineage maps, and hybrid poetics.

For writers who live:

between languages
outside institutions
across borders

An archipelago for writers imagining more generous literary futures.

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→ Signals (Writing Prompts)
→ Grant Lab
→ Funding

Maps of influence, ancestry, and literary kinship across languages and traditions.

Rule-based writing engines that produce unexpected language.

Signal 01 — Gbaka Grammar
Signal 02 — The Syllabus is Flammable
Signal 03 — Writing from inside the Circle
Signal 04 — Self-Portrait Generator: Instructions for Becoming Weather
Signal 05 — Operating Manual for Systems that Don’t Wait (coming soon)

Notes on writing, applications, and not flattening the self.

Grant Lab #1 — Who You Are Is Not the Problem (coming soon)
Grant Lab #2 —

Fragments from the CounterFeed system — observations, language drift, and process notes.

Entries appear as they surface.

Short reflections from poets working across West Africa and its diasporas — on language, place, craft, and literary futures.

Notes appear as they arrive.

DEW Scholar Notes

Quarterly reflections from our inaugural DEW Scholar Isaiah Adepoju—on craft, community, and visibility.

Community Notes
Short craft reflections and dispatches.

— (coming soon)

Selected resources for craft and community outside dominant literary pathways.

Craft
→ Non-MFA Resources

Opportunities supporting writers across the Global South and its diasporas, and those working outside dominant literary institutions.

Fellowships & Grants
→ Miles Morland Foundation
→ African Writers Trust
→ Black Mountain Institute
→ Granum Foundation

This is a working archive.

Return when you need to.