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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
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New from Carlo Matos: We Prefer the Damned

With his 11th book, We Prefer The Damned, Carlo Matos explores bisexual identity, relationships, erasure, and denial. Through this collection, Matos — a former MMA fighter — embraces past and present, old self and new self, while giving voice to the complexities of the bi+/pan/poly experience.

Contributor News: Pattie McCarthy

Pattie McCarthy (“from x y z & &,” Issue 1) has just published a new book, Nulls, from Horse Less Press. She has also published a chapbook, fifteen genre scenes, from eth press. It’s a “scribal experiment”—each copy is written out by hand.

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