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Call for Submissions: Rituals
“This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don’t have to haul t…
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Submissions are now open for our next quarterly!
For this quarterly issue, we are seeking submissions that explore rituals – both the quiet, personal habits that shape our days and the communal, cultural ceremonies that bind generations.
Read here:
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For this quarterly issue, we are seeking submissions that explore rituals – both the quiet, personal habits that shape our days and the communal, cultural ceremonies that bind generations.
Read here:
iselemagazine.com/2025/06/02/c...
Submissions are now open for our next quarterly!
For this quarterly issue, we are seeking submissions that explore rituals – both the quiet, personal habits that shape our days and the communal, cultural ceremonies that bind generations.
Read here:
iselemagazine.com/2025/06/02/c...
For this quarterly issue, we are seeking submissions that explore rituals – both the quiet, personal habits that shape our days and the communal, cultural ceremonies that bind generations.
Read here:
iselemagazine.com/2025/06/02/c...
Call for Submissions: Rituals
“This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don’t have to haul t…
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June 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Submissions are now open for our next quarterly!
For this quarterly issue, we are seeking submissions that explore rituals – both the quiet, personal habits that shape our days and the communal, cultural ceremonies that bind generations.
Read here:
iselemagazine.com/2025/06/02/c...
For this quarterly issue, we are seeking submissions that explore rituals – both the quiet, personal habits that shape our days and the communal, cultural ceremonies that bind generations.
Read here:
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bullets & blossoms—an experiment inspired by a real-life incident. by making the familiar strange, i hope i made the strange familiar.
thank you for giving this explosion a chance, @iselemagazine.bsky.social @msolisakwe.bsky.social
link: iselemagazine.com/2025/04/30/b...
thank you for giving this explosion a chance, @iselemagazine.bsky.social @msolisakwe.bsky.social
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bullets & blossoms | Victor Forna
and the two men, face to face, dancers, spin, spin, spin, guns in their hands like shɛgburɛ: soldier + madman, in the middle of a street, on a cardboard stage: they are not silent, but there are no…
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April 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
bullets & blossoms—an experiment inspired by a real-life incident. by making the familiar strange, i hope i made the strange familiar.
thank you for giving this explosion a chance, @iselemagazine.bsky.social @msolisakwe.bsky.social
link: iselemagazine.com/2025/04/30/b...
thank you for giving this explosion a chance, @iselemagazine.bsky.social @msolisakwe.bsky.social
link: iselemagazine.com/2025/04/30/b...
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Happy to share that I have a tiny genre-blurring piece, "A Forking of Perches", in @iselemagazine.bsky.social's quarterly issue, Ephemeral Moments. ✨💌
My piece can be found here:
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My piece can be found here:
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A Forking of Perches | Neethu Krishnan
At first, you were situated in space within a single, cosy column of air, your pockets empty, wrists braid-braceleted, hearts brimming; the ether pillar fortressing your synchronous, collective exh…
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April 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Happy to share that I have a tiny genre-blurring piece, "A Forking of Perches", in @iselemagazine.bsky.social's quarterly issue, Ephemeral Moments. ✨💌
My piece can be found here:
iselemagazine.com/2025/04/30/a...
My piece can be found here:
iselemagazine.com/2025/04/30/a...
For our first quarterly issue of the year, we explore the fleeting beauty of life’s impermanence.
Featuring Victor Forna, Solomon Peabo, Doreen Masika, Kabubu Mutua, Lucy Zhang, Celeste Colarič-Gonzales, and more.
Read our Ephemeral Moments issue:
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Featuring Victor Forna, Solomon Peabo, Doreen Masika, Kabubu Mutua, Lucy Zhang, Celeste Colarič-Gonzales, and more.
Read our Ephemeral Moments issue:
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April 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
For our first quarterly issue of the year, we explore the fleeting beauty of life’s impermanence.
Featuring Victor Forna, Solomon Peabo, Doreen Masika, Kabubu Mutua, Lucy Zhang, Celeste Colarič-Gonzales, and more.
Read our Ephemeral Moments issue:
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Featuring Victor Forna, Solomon Peabo, Doreen Masika, Kabubu Mutua, Lucy Zhang, Celeste Colarič-Gonzales, and more.
Read our Ephemeral Moments issue:
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thank you to @iselemagazine.bsky.social for accepting my poems to be published in their next issue - Ephemeral. #BskyPoets #SkyPoets #PoetryCommunity
April 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
thank you to @iselemagazine.bsky.social for accepting my poems to be published in their next issue - Ephemeral. #BskyPoets #SkyPoets #PoetryCommunity
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Maobi lives at No. 39 Faulks Street with 99 other children. Under Madam Principal's guidance, the children partake in most unusual activities of witchcraft...
Masterful work of #africanjujuism by @etherealilo.bsky.social in @iselemagazine.bsky.social
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Masterful work of #africanjujuism by @etherealilo.bsky.social in @iselemagazine.bsky.social
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The Children of No 39 Faulks Street | Innocent Chizaram Ilo
The first thing you should know about No. 39 Faulks Street is that it does not really exist, at least not to the folks who live on Faulks Street or in Selemku. Popular town gossip has it that a wom…
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March 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Maobi lives at No. 39 Faulks Street with 99 other children. Under Madam Principal's guidance, the children partake in most unusual activities of witchcraft...
Masterful work of #africanjujuism by @etherealilo.bsky.social in @iselemagazine.bsky.social
iselemagazine.com/2020/10/22/t...
Masterful work of #africanjujuism by @etherealilo.bsky.social in @iselemagazine.bsky.social
iselemagazine.com/2020/10/22/t...
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'Phases', byTramaine Suubi, 'The Tiny Things are Heavier', by
Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo, and 'The Years of Blood', by
Adedayo Agarau on 'Isele Magazine''s list of 25 Most Anticipated Books of 2025
Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo, and 'The Years of Blood', by
Adedayo Agarau on 'Isele Magazine''s list of 25 Most Anticipated Books of 2025
Featuring new titles by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Chika Unigwe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo and many others, here are our 25 Most Anticipated Books of 2025.
iselemagazine.com/2025/01/03/e...
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Editor’s Choice: 25 Most Anticipated Books of 2025
Last year, we published a list of books we were excited to read and eventually enjoyed. The list featured Chigozie Obioma; Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond; ‘Pemi Aguda, whose debut collection, Ghostroots, w…
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February 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
'Phases', byTramaine Suubi, 'The Tiny Things are Heavier', by
Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo, and 'The Years of Blood', by
Adedayo Agarau on 'Isele Magazine''s list of 25 Most Anticipated Books of 2025
Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo, and 'The Years of Blood', by
Adedayo Agarau on 'Isele Magazine''s list of 25 Most Anticipated Books of 2025
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Call for Submissions: Ephemeral – The Beauty in Impermanence
Call for Submissions: Ephemeral – The Beauty in Impermanence
Not everything lasts forever, and that’s okay. For this quarterly issue of Isele Magazine, we are seeking submissions that revolve around the ephemeral – those transient yet profoundly meaningful m…
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February 9, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Call for Submissions: Ephemeral – The Beauty in Impermanence
Mariam Oyewunmi Tijani's "My Grandma’s Memory Box" has won the 2024 Abebi Award in Afro-Nonfiction Prize! #TheAbebiInstitute
Read her winning essay here:
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Read her winning essay here:
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My Grandma’s Memory Box | Mariam Oyewunmi Tijani
Editor’s Note: In partnership with The 2024 Abebi Award in Afro-Nonfiction, Isele Magazine publishes the winner, the runner-up, and the notable essays selected by the curators of the award. Ma…
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January 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Mariam Oyewunmi Tijani's "My Grandma’s Memory Box" has won the 2024 Abebi Award in Afro-Nonfiction Prize! #TheAbebiInstitute
Read her winning essay here:
iselemagazine.com/2025/01/17/m...
Read her winning essay here:
iselemagazine.com/2025/01/17/m...
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Link to the essay! It's been published in @iselemagazine.bsky.social
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January 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Link to the essay! It's been published in @iselemagazine.bsky.social
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“Traditions demand our attention. They need time to become and remain a thing. The last time I saw Sister Bisi, she expressed how proud she was of my writing and journey. She died…and the carol died with her. A thing falls apart to reveal whose labour pillared it.”
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Some Seasons I Have Known | Kemi Falodun
OWO The days got colder and drier, lips chapped and dust settled on everything. We cleaned the tables and railings, discarded old, musty clothes. We scrubbed the floor, rearranged the sofas, and ga…
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January 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“Traditions demand our attention. They need time to become and remain a thing. The last time I saw Sister Bisi, she expressed how proud she was of my writing and journey. She died…and the carol died with her. A thing falls apart to reveal whose labour pillared it.”
iselemagazine.com/2024/12/06/s...
iselemagazine.com/2024/12/06/s...
Featuring new titles by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Chika Unigwe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo and many others, here are our 25 Most Anticipated Books of 2025.
iselemagazine.com/2025/01/03/e...
iselemagazine.com/2025/01/03/e...
Editor’s Choice: 25 Most Anticipated Books of 2025
Last year, we published a list of books we were excited to read and eventually enjoyed. The list featured Chigozie Obioma; Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond; ‘Pemi Aguda, whose debut collection, Ghostroots, w…
iselemagazine.com
January 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Featuring new titles by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Chika Unigwe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo and many others, here are our 25 Most Anticipated Books of 2025.
iselemagazine.com/2025/01/03/e...
iselemagazine.com/2025/01/03/e...
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Poetry by Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo: "Brief," "An Exchange of Equal Things," "Come, Sit," and "A Walk in Time" | 'Isele Magazine' iselemagazine.com/2024/12/06/f...
Four Poems | Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo
Brief How briefthe moments of then, there, nowyet you dance a still dance in the space between ink-black shadows.An Exchange of Equal ThingsI told the moon to move further backwe want more air and …
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December 11, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Poetry by Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo: "Brief," "An Exchange of Equal Things," "Come, Sit," and "A Walk in Time" | 'Isele Magazine' iselemagazine.com/2024/12/06/f...
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thankful to @iselemagazine.bsky.social for including Sports Ball in their new issue…
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The Air We Breathe
TABLE OF CONTENTS Fiction Sports Ball | Nathaniel Krenkel Storm at the Crossing | Great Opara Clucking | Victor Ola-Matthew They Flap Arown | Amanda Yskamp Burning Questions | Susan L. Lin Nonficti…
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December 30, 2024 at 11:22 PM
thankful to @iselemagazine.bsky.social for including Sports Ball in their new issue…
#shortfiction
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#shortfiction
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honoured to be featured in this quarterly edition of @iselemagazine.bsky.social themed on "The Air We Breathe"
For our last quarterly issue of 2024, we present works that revolve around air pollution and the resilience of life forms living in polluted environments.
Featuring Nathaniel Krenkel, Great Opera, Sumedha Shukla, Moseka Ole Ntiyia, Alobu Emmanuel and more.
Read:
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Featuring Nathaniel Krenkel, Great Opera, Sumedha Shukla, Moseka Ole Ntiyia, Alobu Emmanuel and more.
Read:
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December 30, 2024 at 9:27 PM
honoured to be featured in this quarterly edition of @iselemagazine.bsky.social themed on "The Air We Breathe"
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Thank you @iselemagazine.bsky.social for publishing my non-fiction essay "Autumn Smoke" in the themed edition "The Air We Breathe". What a happy way to end the year. iselemagazine.com/2024/12/30/a... #writingcommunity #amwriting
Autumn Smoke | Janis La Couvée
Smoke permeates my bedroom walls, seeps in through cracks around the windows—I know it’s there the minute I wake up. My family is noted for our good noses, sniffing the air at the faintest whiff of…
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December 30, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Thank you @iselemagazine.bsky.social for publishing my non-fiction essay "Autumn Smoke" in the themed edition "The Air We Breathe". What a happy way to end the year. iselemagazine.com/2024/12/30/a... #writingcommunity #amwriting
For our last quarterly issue of 2024, we present works that revolve around air pollution and the resilience of life forms living in polluted environments.
Featuring Nathaniel Krenkel, Great Opera, Sumedha Shukla, Moseka Ole Ntiyia, Alobu Emmanuel and more.
Read:
iselemagazine.com/the-air-we-b...
Featuring Nathaniel Krenkel, Great Opera, Sumedha Shukla, Moseka Ole Ntiyia, Alobu Emmanuel and more.
Read:
iselemagazine.com/the-air-we-b...
December 30, 2024 at 5:00 PM
For our last quarterly issue of 2024, we present works that revolve around air pollution and the resilience of life forms living in polluted environments.
Featuring Nathaniel Krenkel, Great Opera, Sumedha Shukla, Moseka Ole Ntiyia, Alobu Emmanuel and more.
Read:
iselemagazine.com/the-air-we-b...
Featuring Nathaniel Krenkel, Great Opera, Sumedha Shukla, Moseka Ole Ntiyia, Alobu Emmanuel and more.
Read:
iselemagazine.com/the-air-we-b...
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“You went to the Savoy to see Chick Webb. We go to Chick-fil-A.”
new piece published in @iselemagazine.bsky.social
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new piece published in @iselemagazine.bsky.social
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Sports Ball | Nathaniel Krenkel
Jackson caresses his freshly shaven jawline and ponders whether or not the beard has become some kind of new fascist tell. He deliberates as he stands in the sporting goods store north of Stewart, …
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December 30, 2024 at 4:06 PM
“You went to the Savoy to see Chick Webb. We go to Chick-fil-A.”
new piece published in @iselemagazine.bsky.social
iselemagazine.com/2024/12/30/s...
new piece published in @iselemagazine.bsky.social
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From Tolu Daniel’s “Notes of a Nonresident Alien” to Kemi Falodun’s stirring piece, “Some Seasons I Have known,” check out our top ten most popular essays of this year.
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Top Ten of 2024 | Nonfiction
From Tolu Daniel’s “Notes of a Nonresident Alien” to Kemi Falodun’s stirring piece, “Some Seasons I Have known,” check out our top ten most popular essays of this year. Heartwood …
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December 28, 2024 at 5:49 PM
From Tolu Daniel’s “Notes of a Nonresident Alien” to Kemi Falodun’s stirring piece, “Some Seasons I Have known,” check out our top ten most popular essays of this year.
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From Adams Adeosun’s “Matrimony” to Chantelle Chiwetalu’s “Koala, Koala, Koala,” check out our top ten most popular fiction of this year.
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Top Ten of 2024 | Fiction
From Adams Adeosun’s “Matrimony” to Chantelle Chiwetalu’s “Koala, Koala, Koala,” check out our top ten most popular fiction of this year. Eating Yam with Palm Oi…
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December 28, 2024 at 5:48 PM
From Adams Adeosun’s “Matrimony” to Chantelle Chiwetalu’s “Koala, Koala, Koala,” check out our top ten most popular fiction of this year.
iselemagazine.com/2024/12/23/t...
iselemagazine.com/2024/12/23/t...
From Mubanga Kalimamukwento’s three poems to Adedayo Agarau’s memorable lines, check out our top ten most popular poems of this year.
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Top Ten of 2024 | Poetry
From Mubanga Kalimamukwento’s three poems to Adedayo Agarau’s memorable lines, check out our top ten most popular poems of this year. Two Poems | Chiwenite Onyekwelu I say I’m fine…
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December 28, 2024 at 5:47 PM
From Mubanga Kalimamukwento’s three poems to Adedayo Agarau’s memorable lines, check out our top ten most popular poems of this year.
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