New editions of literary magazines Lolwe, PREE, Poda Poda Stories, and Doek are available for your reading pleasure.
Lolwe
Lolwe is a Pan-African literary arts platform that publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid writing, orature, drama, translation, and visual art. Founded in 2020 by Troy Onyango, the magazine has a focus on amplifying the work by writers, poets and visual artists from Africa, Caribbean and the Black diaspora. Lolwe aims to publish more work by Black creatives as this is a way to ensure greater visibility for stories by Black people and to give a platform and space for the “Black imagination.”
Their latest issue, the twelfth, has contributions of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art from Akinyi Ocholla, Lindiwe Dhlakama, Piloya Innocent, Shammah Godoz, Lynda Chidera Anih, Rama Kem, Daniel Aondona, Laurent Bwesigye. Frankline Were, Nozipho Fadzai Wabatagore, Ahmad Adedimeji Amobi, Sabah Carrim, Damilola Oyedeji, Sunmisola Odusola, Jean-Claude Tjitamunisa, and Brunel Johnson. It is guest edited by Moustapha Mbacké Diop, Aria Deemie, and Israel Campos.
You can get the edition by clicking here.
Poda Poda Stories
Poda-Poda Stories is a Sierra Leonean digital literary platform founded by Ngozi Cole that publishes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and criticism by Sierra Leonean writers, creating a central space for their voices and supporting emerging literary talent through fellowships and community building. The name comes from the “poda-poda” mini-buses used for transport, symbolizing connection and movement within the country’s literary scene.
This first edition has Ngozi Cole as editor-in-chief, Charmaine Denison-George as managing editor, and Jeremy Teddy Karn as guest editor. It includes contributions from Adebisi Amori, Ojuolape Amusa, Mohamed Dauda Kamara, Kuzivashe, Tayamika Eunice Maganga, Linda Mchawi, Donnie Moreland, Sihle Ntuli, Khulile Nxumalo, C.S. Odili, Komo Otobo, Serena Phillip, and Emmanuel G.G. Yamba. Mohamed Juldeh Barrie did the cover design.
Check out the first edition here.
PREE
PREE is an online magazine for new contemporary writing from and about the Caribbean. They publish original fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and experimental writing, giving their authors international visibility far beyond the islands.
In response to the category five Hurricane Melissa that battered Jamaica, they have responded with PREE Views 4: “Cat 5,” a special edition co-edited by Isis Semaj-Hall and Diana McCaulay. It brings together five extraordinary Jamaican voices in the wake of Hurricane Melissa: stirring poetry from Yashika Graham, searing fiction by Roland Watson-Grant, a loving photo essay from The Visual Advocate, Jik-Reuben Pringle , an encouraging essay from Diana McCaulay, and Erna Brodber’s incomparable storytelling.
You can find the edition by clicking here.
Doek
Doek! Literary Magazine (Doek!) is a free, independent, and Pan-African online literary magazine produced in Windhoek, Namibia. It publishes short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art from Namibia, Africa, and the African diaspora.
The current edition has fiction, nonfiction, visual art, and poetry by Simorne Januarie, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Ayesha Harruna Attah, Kalaf Epalanga, Zukiswa Wanner, Kina Indongo, Jeremy Tiboth, Negyem Adoono, Reem Aljeally, Namukolo Siyumbwa, and Reem Aljeally with the editorial by Rémy Ngamije.
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