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Frances Ogamba

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Scholarships: 2024 Miles Morland, 2024 Jacobson| Fellowship: Don Lavoie, Walter H. Judd, CLA| Winner, ‘23 Diana Woods Memorial Award| Finalist, Locus Awards

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I’m so excited to be on this journey with these incredible writers and an excellent editor as a guide! Grateful Grateful 💖

Chinụalụmọgụ Ezenwa-Ọhaeto (@chinuaezenwa) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Excited to reveal "THE NAMING" Cover 🥳. To be out via Univ Nebraska Press & now ready for pre-order. Grateful to Kwame Dawes. Thankful to Major Jackson, Roger Robinson& Philippa Yaa De Villiers for the kind words. Preorder: Amazon: a.co/d/6oNpP7n U.S: tinyurl.com/3y2tkpka

Excited to reveal "THE NAMING" Cover 🥳. To be out via <a href="/UnivNebPress/">Univ Nebraska Press</a> &amp; now ready for pre-order. Grateful to Kwame Dawes. Thankful to Major Jackson, Roger Robinson&amp; Philippa Yaa De Villiers for the kind words.

Preorder: Amazon: a.co/d/6oNpP7n
U.S: tinyurl.com/3y2tkpka
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Congratulations to 2025 ICCW Fellow Azubuike Obi (Azubuike Obi) for making the 2024 Awele Creative Trust longlist! From Idembeka to the world! 🚀✨ #ICCW #AweleCreativeTrust

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A seamstresss, Egoabia, uses the Rebirth powder technology to mould a son from clay. When Ude is 5 years old, he moulds a brother with catastrophic consequences... Folktale brought to new life by Frances Ogamba in The Dark thedarkmagazine.com/the-grit-born/

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9-year-old Juochi is appointed Omambara's new Keeper after the brutal death of his father, the previous Keeper, Alonna. It's now his duty to save his town from an age-old curse. Chosen-one #africanjujuism story by Frances Ogamba in Frivolous Comma frivolouscomma.com/the-keeper/

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2/Today I am happy to announce that both of us are among the winners of the 2025 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction. The winning stories were chosen by Edwar P. Jones whose works I have long admired

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🎉 Happy Publication Day to our 2025 Mbekas Karen Njelita, Mulenga Mupinde & Fatima Mohammed—featured in the latest issue of Journal of African Youth Literature! And a special shoutout to our 2024 alum Anna Zgambo 🖤 Read them here 👉🏾 jaylit.com/issue-9/ #fromidembekatotheworld 🌍

🎉 Happy Publication Day to our 2025 Mbekas Karen Njelita, Mulenga Mupinde &amp; Fatima Mohammed—featured in the latest issue of <a href="/JAY_Literature/">Journal of African Youth Literature</a>!

And a special shoutout to our 2024 alum <a href="/annazgambo_/">Anna Zgambo</a> 🖤
Read them here 👉🏾 jaylit.com/issue-9/

#fromidembekatotheworld 🌍
Kasịmma (@kasimmam) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Huge congratulations to our very own Idembeka Creative Writing Workshop & Ubwali Literary Magazine Mubanga Kalimamukwento for winning the 2025 CLMP Award for Best Fiction! Obligations to the Wounded deserve am! 💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿 Such awesome news! Wow! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

Huge congratulations to our very own <a href="/Idembeka/">Idembeka Creative Writing Workshop</a> &amp; <a href="/UbwaliLitMag/">Ubwali Literary Magazine</a> Mubanga Kalimamukwento for winning the 2025 CLMP Award for Best Fiction! Obligations to the Wounded deserve am!
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Such awesome news! Wow! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Frances Ogamba (@francesogamba) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Congratulations, Mubanga Kalimamukwento, on winning the Firecracker Awards for Fiction! Cheers to a girl who is unbreakable! 🥂 clmp.org/programs-oppor…

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“He smelled of fresh forest papers, the kind so wealthy in greenness it would haemorrhage if rubbed together.” Kasịmma has a new, riveting short story in CRAFT Magazine craftliterary.com/2025/07/11/ish…

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Our July edition is out now! Featuring: fiction by Gloria Mwaniga Odary, poetry by Adesiyan Oluwapelumi, hybrid by Orji Victor Ebubechukwu, visual by Habibat Muhammad Sani, and drama by Doreen Masika. lolwe.org