tv writer, novelist, editor | #Agoodjie for @canalplus | Ogadinma & DAWTCYN | founder & eic: @iselemagazine | Asst. Prof of Fiction & Screenwriting at WSU
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I wrote about Flora Nwapa in this new magnificent issue of @republicjournal. I can’t wait for you all to read it!
The design/spread is just stunning.
Our next print issue, Demas Nwoko’s Natural Sythnesis and the Rise of African Architecture, is now available for pre-order at a 20% advance discount.
Pre-order now: republic.com.ng/product/the-…
Send us your stories, essays, and poems 💜
Submissions are open for our next quarterly!
For this quarterly issue, we want submissions that revolve around the theme of water. Rivers, seas, oceans, rain, drought, reefs, mermaids, pirates…all things water.
Send us stories, essays, poetry, & more.
iselemagazine.com/2026/10/13…
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Submissions are open for our next quarterly!
For this quarterly issue, we want submissions that revolve around the theme of water. Rivers, seas, oceans, rain, drought, reefs, mermaids, pirates…all things water.
Send us stories, essays, poetry, & more.
iselemagazine.com/2026/10/13…
Our new quarterly issue is here, featuring new work by ‘Pemi Aguda, Salwa Emerson, R. Makama, and more.
I remain eternally grateful for the community we’ve built around Isele. We couldn’t have done it without your support.
Thank you, always.
And please share!
Our latest quarterly issue, RED, is here!
Featuring National Book Awards finalist 'Pemi Aguda, R. Makama, Salwa Emerson, David Emeka, Garima Chhikara, Riah Hopkins & more,
Read RED here:
iselemagazine.com/red/
So happy to share that starting this fall, my colleague and I will serve as the new co-editor-in-chiefs of our college journal, Weber - The Contemporary West!
The journal is moving from print to online. We are looking for excellent writing. See the call:
weber.edu/weber-journal
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Submissions are open for our next quarterly!
For this issue, we want red-themed submissions. Roses, ladybugs, love, blood, sacrifice, Taylor Swift’s similarly-titled album…we want all things red.
Send us your stories, essays, poetry, more.
Read here:
iselemagazine.com/2026/06/09…
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My essay, “An Anatomy of a Falling Body” is part of @IseleMagazine “After the End” issue. Grateful to @MsOlisakwe and the Isele editors for giving this essay a home.
Do read 💕
iselemagazine.com/2026/04/30…
For our first quarterly issue of the year, we highlight works that explore survival as a collective practice and a duty of care.
Featuring Ani Kayode Somtochukwu, Rowan Tate, Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto, Yeayi Kobina, and more.
Read our After the End issue:
iselemagazine.com/after-the-…
Our first quarterly of the year is here. This one is special. Truly.
Please read and share, friends.🙏❤️
For our first quarterly issue of the year, we highlight works that explore survival as a collective practice and a duty of care.
Featuring Ani Kayode Somtochukwu, Rowan Tate, Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto, Yeayi Kobina, and more.
Read our After the End issue:
iselemagazine.com/after-the-…
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A new short story in Isele !! Nwabundu is Okonkwo’s great granddaughter:) :) iselemagazine.com/2026/03/16…
Yup, we are back with something special. Please read and share!
Today we publish our first special issue of the year. We are so thrilled!
Featuring the O. Henry Prize and the Nigeria Prize for Literature winner Chika Unigwe, Rita Banerjee, I.O. Echeruo, Mubanga Kalimamukwento, Saheed Sunday, and more.
Read here:
iselemagazine.com/march-2026…
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Submissions are now open for our next quarterly!
We are especially interested in submissions that explore survival as a collective practice and a duty of care. Send us stories, poems, essays, photography, art, and hybrid works that explore this theme.
iselemagazine.com/2026/02/04…
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Featuring new titles by 'Pemi Aguda, I.O. Echeruo, Chika Unigwe, Mubanga Kalimamukwento, Tramaine Suubi, and many others, here are the 20 books we are most excited about this year!
iselemagazine.com/2026/01/31…
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COVER REVEAL! - Grace by @chikaunigwe
It is Baby’s birthday, but Grace has not seen her first born in twenty-six years. Now a wife, mother to twin daughters and the owner of a successful medical clinic, Grace has carefully constructed a new life.
We are hiring!
This is a tenure-track Assistant Professor position for someone who is experienced in facets of filmmaking including directing, digital cinematography, editing, and post-production effects.
Please reach out if you have questions.
jobs.weber.edu/postings/2719…
Our last quarterly issue of the year is finally here!
Thank you all so much for support. Please read and share.❤️
In our latest quarterly, we present works that ask us to consider the words we write, the paths we take, our choices in this still-unfolding narrative. Our UNWRITTEN issue is here.
With Nnamdi Ehirim, Sheila Ngei, Taslym Umar, Bongiwe Maphosa, and more.
iselemagazine.com/unwritten/
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I have a chapter in this book published by routledgebooks, out December 17, 2025. One of the gifts of teaching writing, for me, is that it confronts me with what makes a story work. Ultimately, that’s great for my own writing (too).
Finally, the poems!
From Saddiq Dzukogi ‘s stellar poem, “I Live in a Century of Money,” to Elly Katz’s “Three Poems” which were shortlisted for this year’s Isele Poetry Prize, check out our top ten most popular poems of this year.
Top Ten of 2025 | Poetry iselemagazine.com/2025/12/23…
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And here are the essays our readers read the most this year.
From Mariam Oyewunmi Tijani’s award-winning essay, “My Grandma’s Memory Box,” to Annie Russo’s stirring piece, “The Disappearing Act,” check out our top ten most popular essays of this year.
Top Ten of 2025 | Nonfiction iselemagazine.com/2025/12/23…
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Five years and counting and Isele continues to flourish. What a year this has been!
Check out our most read stories of 2025.
From Josiah Ikpe’s “Not Like Other Boys” which won this year’s Isele Short Story Prize, to IfeOluwa Nihinlola’s brilliant piece, “And Desire Fails,” check out our top ten most popular short stories of this year.
Top Ten of 2025 | Fiction iselemagazine.com/2025/12/23…
