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A literary magazine that publishes notable fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and book reviews.

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Isele Magazine@IseleMagazine · Jun 27

Meet the winners of the 2025 Isele Prizes! Josiah Ikpe's “Not Like Other Boys” wins the Isele Short Story Prize. Tolu Daniel’s '“Notes of a Nonresident Alien” wins the Isele Nonfiction Prize. Fatima Abdullahi's “Three Poems” wins the Isele Poetry Prize iselemagazine.com/2025/06/27/the…

IseleMagazine's tweet image. Meet the winners of the 2025 Isele Prizes!

Josiah Ikpe's “Not Like Other Boys” wins the Isele Short Story Prize.

Tolu Daniel’s '“Notes of a Nonresident Alien” wins the Isele Nonfiction Prize.

Fatima Abdullahi's “Three Poems” wins the Isele Poetry Prize

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Isele Magazine@IseleMagazine · Jul 27

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IseleMagazine's tweet card. Friday evenings, at six, Romola balanced her account at MRS Filling Station and caught a taxi to Riverside Hotel & Bar, where she worked until midnight. She was a pump attendant every day, a wa…

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Isele Magazine@IseleMagazine · Jul 25

Souvenir | Roseline Mgbodichinma iselemagazine.com/2021/07/05/sou…

IseleMagazine's tweet card. Prayer My body went missing when I started to touch myself. It disappeared totally into the brim of darkness with my shadows fighting to be seen. It was before men knew me, even before I knew mysel…

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Isele Magazine@IseleMagazine · Jul 25

Daughters, By Our Hands | Ekemini Pius iselemagazine.com/2022/04/30/dau…

IseleMagazine's tweet card. I. Eme began to panic five months before her daughter, Aniema’s eighteenth birthday. She had seen signs that confirmed that her daughter had firmly started her journey to womanhood; her monthly per…

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Isele Magazine@IseleMagazine · Jul 24

Top Ten of 2024 | Nonfiction iselemagazine.com/2024/12/23/top…

IseleMagazine's tweet card. 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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Isele Magazine@IseleMagazine · Jul 24

Court Ludwick in Conversation with Christy Tending iselemagazine.com/2024/08/30/cou…

IseleMagazine's tweet card. “This is a memoir, not a map of where the bodies are buried,” writes Christy Tending, in High Priestess of the Apocalypse. “It’s about wringing out everything into the sink and watching what floats…

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Isele Magazine@IseleMagazine · Jul 23

Mine | Ema Babikwa iselemagazine.com/2023/04/30/min…

IseleMagazine's tweet card. I love the way I look. I haven’t always but I do now and that is important. It hasn’t always felt that way. The phrase that has been coined to describe men who are a tad bit obsessed with their loo…

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Isele Magazine@IseleMagazine · Jul 23

Lagoon Front | Izehi Amadasu iselemagazine.com/2023/04/30/lag…

IseleMagazine's tweet card. At the fringe of my school is a blessing: rippling water cut off from the rest of its body crashes into jagged stones and hugs the atmosphere with coolness. The stones open into a shore lined with …

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Isele Magazine@IseleMagazine · Jul 22

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IseleMagazine's tweet card. “A Tapestry of Time” uses digital collage to weave together Uganda’s past and present, reflecting on its journey through independence and urban development. It explores themes of …

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Isele Magazine@IseleMagazine · Jul 22

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IseleMagazine's tweet card. 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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Isele Magazine@IseleMagazine · Jul 21

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IseleMagazine's tweet card. elegy the animal is broken open like dried palmnut, beads of blood litter the ground like dew drops. like struck guitar strings, my insides quiver for the cocoon of my mother’s embrace, …

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Isele Magazine@IseleMagazine · Jul 21

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IseleMagazine's tweet card. Author’s Note: I have written this essay in the spirit of an unconventional writing style that often incorporates elements that are more reminiscent of poetry than standard (non)fiction prose. The …

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Isele Magazine@IseleMagazine · Jul 20

Waist Beads | Ber Anena iselemagazine.com/2023/09/15/wai…

IseleMagazine's tweet card. The man I was loving froze when his hand encountered a string of beads on my waist. We were getting naked for the first time, and I had, without meaning to, kept the beads a secret. His chest…

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Isele Magazine@IseleMagazine · Jul 20

fritɔŋ surreal | Victor Forna iselemagazine.com/2023/09/15/fri…

IseleMagazine's tweet card. ascension town headstones. a crow sets out for the cemetery at ascension town. it settles on a night-spattered headstone. it lifts its wing. it picks at its feathers. remembered with love, says the…

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Isele Magazine@IseleMagazine · Jul 18

The Struggle For Freedom | Chidera Ochuagu iselemagazine.com/2023/08/30/the…

IseleMagazine's tweet card. 1. I like to think of myself as an activist I advocate for myself. I stand up for myself. I campaign for myself. My life is my first project, I am my own activist, I fight for my own revolution and…

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Isele Magazine@IseleMagazine · Jul 18

Feel My Love | Haidar iselemagazine.com/2024/01/15/fee…

IseleMagazine's tweet card. I. VULINDLELA Bebesithi _ people saidUnyana wam ulisoka _ my son is someone who doesn’t get women Angeke ashade _ he would never get married Vul’ indela _ but open the gatesSiyash…

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Isele Magazine@IseleMagazine · Jul 17

5 Questions for Chika Unigwe iselemagazine.com/2020/12/07/5-q…

IseleMagazine's tweet card. In this conversation with Isele, Chika Unigwe talks about her short story, “The Weight of Love”, Princess Diana, and more. Kenechi Uzor: Your recent story for Isele partly engages…

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Isele Magazine@IseleMagazine · Jul 17

Janet Uzor and African Genre Fiction: A Conversation with Miracle Emeka-Nkwor iselemagazine.com/2022/04/30/jan…

IseleMagazine's tweet card. Every year at Afobiri Secondary School, a student loses their life to mysterious circumstances. It began with James Iyaye, a one-time senior prefect whose spleen was ruptured by a car as he crossed…

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Isele Magazine@IseleMagazine · Jul 16

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IseleMagazine's tweet card. Word got around that my Poppa, Reuben Henry, had a great bird dog, a lab named Buster aka Buster Fleabag according to Aunt Gert. Poppa explained to me how bird dogs like springer spaniels and Britt…

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Isele Magazine@IseleMagazine · Jul 16

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IseleMagazine's tweet card. She’s a tiny woman. Young too. Some of our women are small but that comes mainly from them spending most of their lives on spacecraft. That’s one of the reasons we’re doing this. …

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Isele Magazine@IseleMagazine · Jul 15

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IseleMagazine's tweet card. Edited by Yvonne Wabai, Ukamaka Olisakwe, and Chideraa Ike-Akaenyi. Cover image by Sergey Vinogradov/Unsplash and cover design by Yvonne Wabai. Table of Cont…

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