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June 2, 2021

Caine Prize shortlist 2021

The shortlisted stories for the 2021 AKO Caine Prize are: ‘Lucky' by Doreen Baingana (Uganda) published in Ibua Journal, Online in Kampala, Uganda, 2021. Please find her story here. ‘The Street…
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May 27, 2021

Rohan Ayinde’s new video just dropped

Rohan Ayinde is a poet whose interdisciplinary work is centred around creating “otherwise” potentials (Ashon Crawley) and in so doing breaking down and simultaneously reconfiguring the ideological architectures that shape…
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May 24, 2021

PBS Summer Pamphlet Choice

Portrait of Colossus is a searingly forthright début poetry pamphlet, that navigates parenting, masculinity, racism and ambiguities of identity. It articulates, with skill and sly humour, the migrant experience from…
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