Lorraine Caputo returns with new poems capturing the concrete details of our world, enabling the reader to wander to a different place and time, in so doing encountering the familiar in the strange. Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet, translator and travel writer. Her works appear in over 180 journals on six continents; and 12…
Lost Memories Our latest short fiction contribution, “Lost Memories”, is from Nesta Hatendi. We are delighted to introduce Hatendi, as she a lot to offer on the topic of ageing and its effects on family dynamics. This is a story of the distance created migration to far away lands in search of opportunities, what’s sacrificed…
We are happy to announce that one of our writers, Colin Dodds, is publishing a new poetry anthology (Spokes of an Uneven Wheel) with Main Street Rag. We recently featured Colin’s poetry here. About Spokes of an Uneven Wheel (Blurbs) Spokes of an Uneven Wheel is a compact, ambitious work of poetry, due out from…
In 2012, the Centre for African Cultural Excellence (CACE) based in Kampala, Uganda, launched Writivism – an initiative that identifies, mentors and promotes emerging Africa-based writers, and hosts an annual literary festival in Kampala. In 2017, Writivism celebrated its fifth anniversary and to celebrate this milestone, the initiative, in partnership with the University of Bristol,…
Eleven-year-old Veronica died in labour. Her kinsmen said that starting her period earlier than the rest of us made her a woman. Her cervix had insisted otherwise. It’s not as if I was so surprised when they married her off. Everyone admired her supple skin, her baby face, her petite frame. But be careful when…
“I am a tomb”, begins the new short story by Tendai Machingaidze, ‘The Neurological Map of a Madwoman’, a story that puts the reader into a dream state. What more can you ask for, especially from a writer who also uses language with a magical skill? Tendai Machingaidze was born in 1982 in Harare, Zimbabwe.…
