“A slyly queer collection that is generous, destabilizing, and hungry for life, Perfect Little Angels takes us inside moments that feel bitingly real and mythically transcendent. Anioke renders his characters and settings with crisp prose that cuts through the noise of our world. As the stories weave together, Anioke’s quiet power is revealed. He crafts small and intimate moments which carry epic reverberations and asks the reader to rethink what came before. Perfect Little Angels uncovers the weighty expectations that cultures, families, and individuals place on one another — and the dangerously unpredictable ways in which we respond.” — 2024 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers jury (Jillian Christmas, Adam Garnet Jones, and Hazel Jane Plante) 

“A tale of sexuality and diaspora, secrecy and tenderness and barbed belonging, ‘Mama’s Lullabies’ narrates a suppressed queer desire that comes between a Nigerian ex-pat couple living in Toronto. Poised and poetic, riveting and understated, this story handles a domestic tragedy with the subtlety, care, and imagistic density of short fiction at its best. Where light breezes reveal things ‘ugly and unknowable,’ Vincent Anioke takes us deep into the hearts of his characters, mapping the dazzling underworlds of their hurt.”