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Your Impossible Voice AKO Caine Prize Award for African Writing 2023 Nominee

We are pleased to nominate “The Border” by Solomon Samson from issue 27 for the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing!

About The AKO Caine Prize Award for African Writing

The AKO Caine Prize Award for African Writing is an annual literary award for a published short story by an African writer. In addition to the £10,000 prize, we invite five shortlisted writers to London for a series of events including public readings, interviews with media institutions, private event with agents, and an invitation to the 2023 award ceremony where the winner will be announced.

Solomon Samson

Contributor News: Jennifer McGaha

Jennifer McGaha (“The Gift of the Pantyhose,” Issue 3) currently has two new pieces online:“In Defense of ‘Expressionist Crap’ ” discusses the use of personal narratives in first-year composition courses in The Chronicle of Higher Education.Also, her creative...

Soul Retrieval in The Southwest by Lana Spendl appearing in Hobart

By Lana Spendl At my friend’s bonfire on a chilly Southwestern night, a blond woman in Birkenstocks approached me and said that her name was Singing Humyn.“Singing Human?” I asked.“Singing Humyn, with a ‘y,’” she said. She was a shaman, she explained.Questions sprang...

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