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The Kalahari Review is a weekly publication celebrating African nonfiction, short fiction, poetry, and art. We welcome submissions anytime. You can also include a voice-over of your piece. If interested, please submit a HQ recording of your work
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Writing the Haunted City: In Conversation with ‘Pemi Aguda
“The women I write are typically at some critical moment of coming into consciousness, an awareness of themselves and the systems and histories that have borne the present moment.”
Read full interview on website.
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“The Igbo people say, If you want to see it well, you must not stand in one place.” —Chinua Achebe buff.ly/99MA3Nj
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Literary Magazines: Bakwa, Weganda Review, PREE, Tar Baby
#Fiction #Nonfiction #Poetry @BakwaMag @WegandaReview @PreeLit
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Vagabond
A story exploring the quiet struggle of homelessness and hunger— from Dalene Kooper
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The River Remembers
A beautiful piece exploring how date farming families along the Orange River adapt to droughts, floods, and shifting soil - from Martha Karas
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Apart, Not A Part
Two poems about belonging, exclusion, and the distance between ordinary people and those in power—from Okoli Ekene Allwell
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Cock-A-Doodle-Doo
Two poems about the political circus and its fallout — from Andrea Myinga
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Nhare Mbira
Poems that sing of the evidence of a home most felt. Notes struck by iron, rain, and love, written by the product of her country — from Nicole Chingosha
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An Ancient Delinquent’s Indecent Descent
Four poems that fearlessly capture and unpack the follies, failings and rumblings of some modern-day leaders during a decisive period like a wartime or an election—by Ndaba Sibanda
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Another Name for Miracles
Come in and explore 'miracle', but figuratively and in the lives we live—three poems from Adebayo Ibraheem
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Submissions are open for our next quarterly!
For this quarterly issue, we want submissions that revolve around the theme of water. Rivers, seas, oceans, rain, drought, reefs, mermaids, pirates…all things water.
Send us stories, essays, poetry, & more.
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Young Writers Don’t Need Anyone’s Permission: An Interview with NoViolet Bulawayo iselemagazine.com/2025/11/15…
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Variant Lit is seeking poetry, flash and micros, speculative fiction, and short stories. Submit before November 20th
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Congratulations to Ameen Animashaun ("Dog Fighting a Heron") and Edinam Denoo ("Bonu Bonu Kpoo"), winners of the inaugural Alhaji Arole Agarawu African Poetry Prize! Chosen from 356 submissions across 21 countries, each takes home $1,000 ✨🏆 brittlepaper.com/2026/10/ame…
Choosing My Own Path
An essay on coming into one’s own life-changing decisions — from Muhammad Olarewaju Abdulmajeed
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Dearest younger writers. Please stop referring to yourself as an “up-and-coming writer”. If you are doing the difficult work of writing, figuring out how to put words onto a page regularly, whether you are published yet or not, you are a Writer. Take pride in that.
Nothingness
A new short story from Zimbabwean Dennie Brandon Mqamlandaba Moyo
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