Mubanga Kalimamukwento is a Zambian author and attorney. Her debut novel, The Mourning Bird, won the Dinaane Debut Fiction Award and was listed among the 15 most notable debut books of 2019 by Brittle Paper. She won the Kalemba Short Story Prize 2019 and the Tusculum Review Poetry Chapbook Contest 2022. She’s appeared on shortlists for the

Rémy Ngamije is a Rwandan-born Namibian author, editor, publisher, photographer, literary educator, and entrepreneur. His debut novel The Eternal Audience Of One was first published in South Africa by Blackbird Books and is available worldwide from Scout Press (S&S). In 2022 it was honoured with a Special Mention at the inaugural Grand Prix Panafricain De Litterature

Rafeeat Aliyu was born and raised in Nigeria. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from North Carolina State University. Her writing has appeared in Omenana, FIYAH, Nightmare among others. Her short story “58 Rules To Ensure Your Husband Loves You Forever” was long listed for the 2018 Writivism Short Story Prize and has been

Kiprop Kimutai grew up in Iten, Kenya, along the edge of the Kerio Valley, which is a part of the greater Rift Valley. He learned the many histories of the land by listening to stories told by his elders, and developed a keen interest in these narratives, which he archived. He became invested in exploring

Neema Komba is a Tanzanian poet, writer, and researcher. She is the author of Mektildis Kapinga: A silent hero and See through the complicated. Her story Let them eat fruit cake published by Index on Censorship was nominated as one of the best original fiction in 2019 by the Stack Awards, and her flash story

Though born in Bakau, The Gambia, ML Kejera was raised in Dakar, Dammam, and Tunis. He is currently based in Illinois. His work has previously been published in Strange Horizons, adda, LARB, The Cafe Irreal, and The Nation. He was the first Gambian shortlisted for the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. He is the first

Lanre Otaiku was born in Lagos, where he grew up. He is writing a novel about male friendship, the sexual miseducation of two boys, and the complicated relationship between a man and his son.  

Chika Oduah is a writer, poet, photographer and journalist known for her news coverage across Africa. Her reporting goes beyond the headlines to explore culture, conflict, history, spirituality, human rights and development to capture the complexities, hopes and everyday realities of Africans and people of African descent. She is an alumna of the Farafina Creative Writing Workshop led

Chido Muchemwa is a Zimbabwean writer. Her work has appeared in Lolwe, Augur, Catapult, Baltimore Review, and Bacopa Literary Review, amongst other places. She has been shortlisted twice for the Short Story Day Africa Prize and placed 2nd in the Humber Literary Review’s 2020 Emerging Writers Fiction Contest and in the 2022 Prism International Jacob