EXTRACTS

“TRANSIT” (Fiction)

drawing by Toyin Ojih-Odutola

“Even now (Thandi) wished it away—a reminder that she had once been weak. But of course it was too late. The moment had already pressed into the clay of her, become a part of the ceramics of who she was. By the time she boarded the plane, twelve hours later, it was a hard and permanent thing.”

“ISLANDHOOD” (Non-Fiction)

painting by Zilia Sanchez

“The ideal of islandhood belongs to a mode of individualism, yes, but not the noxious sort which takes the individual to be the final horizon, the last and most sovereign of laws. It belongs instead to a form of individualism that seeks simply to affirm our particular and indivisible actuality.”

“MEMORY” (Fiction)

painting by Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux

“He was recalling, now, an idea he’d put down…that the past was always swimming forward, transmitting DNA. Words that, at the time, had been little more than a pretty abstraction…Yet now they struck him as something that could also be personal: somewhere in the middle of audience queries, the past had stood and accounted for itself.”

“A STATE OF GRACE” (Non-Fiction)

painting by Rembrandt

“I’m thinking about the sort of discoveries that arise not from the public time of one polity or another but from the private time of individuals; not from the domain of nation states so much as the domain of the physical earth: its seasons, its plant and wildlife, its tremendous mysteries and facts.”

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AWARDS, HONOURS & FELLOWSHIPS

INTERVIEWS

  • A Conversation with ‘Best Debut Short Stories 2021’ Author Khaddafina Mbabazi (Catapult)

  • Q&A with 7 Writers Featured in the PEN America Best Debut Short Stories Anthology of 2021 (Chill Subs)

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