As the year begins, we will give you seven literary magazines one can read during the legendary long month of January. The magazines are listed alphabetically.
Agbowo
Agbowó is a platform dedicated to the curation of literary and visual art from across Africa since its establishment in 2017.
The new issue is the “Liminal Edition” has contributions of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and photography by Ope Adedeji, Reyumeh Ejue, Chidera Anikpe, Temitayo Akinyemi, Muti’ah Badruddeen, Olubunmi Familoni, Abdulkareem Abdulkareem, Phodiso Modirwa, Itiola Jones, Habiba Dokubo-Asari, Chiwenite Onyekwelu, Linette Marie Allen, TobyDPhotographer, Lucynder Osunde, Oyi Sands, and an interview of Abu Bakr Sadiq.
Click here to read the current edition.
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 latest edition, edition 14 has contributions from Jeremy Tiboth, Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, Youssef Rakha, Philly V. Vanisha, Ethel Mwafila, Perivi Katjivivi, Jeni Andriemisieza, Rui Mascarenhas, and Jean-Claude Tjitamunisa.
Johannesburg Review of Books
The Johannesburg Review of Books is an independent literary review that publishes reviews, essays, poetry, photographs, and short fiction from South Africa, Africa, and beyond.
The newest edition has contributions from among others Yewande Omotoso, Mandla Langa, Karen Jennings, Simon van Schalkwyk, Masiyaleti Mbewe, Wamuwi Mbao, Werner Pretorius, Niq Mhlongo, Finuala Dowling, Makhosazana Xaba, Saaleha Idrees Bamjee, Ivan Vladislavić, Nthato Mokgata, Roohi Choudhry, Anna Stroud, Joan Metelerkamp, Niren Tolsi, Hedley Twidle, Samuel Fury Childs Daly, Kirsten Perkins, Corina van der Spoel, Jennifer Malec, Victor Dlamini, and Tymon Smith.
Get a copy of the edition here.
Lolwe
Lolwe is an online literary magazine that publishes fiction, literary criticism, personal essays, photography, and poetry founded in 2020.
The December edition features contributions of fiction, poetry, photography, and drama from Aliyu Yakubu, Véronique Tadjo (translated by Alani Rosa Hicks-Bartlett), Serubiri Moses, Sophie Kinya and Uchenna Eze and Daniel Naawenkangua Abukuri.
Moya Magazine
Moya Magazine, published by Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity (AFRE), is a literary magazine that explores Black life around the world and uses the term “planetary Blackness” to describe a global sense of Blackness.
The latest edition has contributions of fiction and nonfiction from among others Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Bansoa Sigam, Nathan Rew, Janine Gaëlle, (T)Sedey Gebreyes, Adama Sanneh, Alex Fitzgerald, Alexis Tsegba, Alistair Scott, Bayo Akomolafe, Blaine D. Teamer, Danielle Bowler, Danielle Fuentes Morgan, Geci Karuri-Sebina, Faith Namikoye Wanjala, Jacqueline Nyathi, Khanya Mtshali, and Michelle Muchilwa.
Check out issue two by clicking here.
Periferias
Periferias Journal is a publication of the Eduniperifeiras Publisher, located in the set of Favelas that make up Maré, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Published biannually and available for free via a digital platform, Peripheries is dedicated to publishing works authored by subjects of the peripheries and on themes related to global peripheries. Its principal objective is to bring together researchers, social activists, and artists from the world’s peripheries interested in sharing the diverse experiences of popular territories and constructing a convergent and global representation of the Potency of Peripheries.
The latest edition 9 was edited by a team of Daniel Martins de Araújo alongside guest editors Heaven Crawley and Jailson de Souza e Silva with the theme “Justice and rights in South-South migration.” The publication comes with translations in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish by Jemima Alves (English), Ana Rivas (Spanish), Cassia da Rosa e Oliveira (English), Déborah Spatz (French), Jackson Schmiedek (English), Edmund Ruge (English), and Pilar Boyero Sotomayor (Spanish). It has contributions from Zukiswa Wanner, Heaven Crawley, Pia Oberoi, Gameli Tordzro, Frankétienne, Rosa Chamorro, Ayman Halasa, Rawan Rbihat, Hala Abu Taleb, Jailson de Souza e Silva and Richemond Dacilien.
Transition
Transition is a unique forum for the freshest, most compelling ideas from and about the black world. Since its founding in Uganda in 1961, the magazine has kept apace of the rapid transformation of the African Diaspora and has remained a leading forum of intellectual debate.
The latest edition is issue 136 with the theme “Queer Uganda” and has fiction, poetry, nonfiction, photography, and art with contributions from Ber Anena, Fred Lafortune, Endria Richardson, Nnami Oguike, Marcus Wicker, Hana Meron, jason b. crawford, Saddiq Dzukogi, Jeremiah Agbaakin, and Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé, Modupeola Fadugba, Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Tina Williams Brewer, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Micha Serraf, Tamary Kudita, Ethel Aanyu, Leilah Babirye, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Nana Yaw Oduro, Matthew Eguavoen, and Amy Bravo.
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