SELECTED FICTION

We Are the Water People  • Audible | Whirlwind • Dgëku Magazine | Sunset Dreams • Isele Magazine| This Little Light Of Mine • Doek! (Shortlisted for the 2021 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing) | Run • Prairie Schooner | A Song From a Forgotten Place • Nairobi Noir | Beach Boy • UEA MA Prose Fiction Anthology | Black is the Colour of Absence • SLICE | The Match • Hotel Africa: New Short Fiction from Africa (Shortlisted for the Short Story Day Africa Prize) | Origami • The Johannesburg Review of Books | A Table for Two • Wasafiri Magazine | Peregrination • The Short Story Is Dead, Long Live the Short Story! Vol. 4 (First runner-up for the Black Letter Media Short Story Competition) | All Things Bright & Beautiful • Caine Prize Anthology (Redemption Song and Other Stories) | Little Daju • AFREADA | For What Are Butterflies Without Their Wings? • Brittle Paper (Shortlisted for the Brittle Paper Anniversary Award + Winner of the Nyanza Literary Festival Prize) The Transfiguration • Transition (Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Audio available on Nipe Story)

ESSAYS

For Sale: Tears to Fool a God • adda | To Experience the Birth of a Heart-breaking Work of Staggering Genius.* • Caine Prize| Shirtless Swahili Boys Dancing Lingala in the Snow • Kalahari Review (Winner of the Igby Prize for Nonfiction) | The Ghost of Nina Simone; Or the Remains of an Existence Spiraling Towards the Nadir • Cosmonauts Avenue | A Swarm of Writers Descend on Kampala • This Is Africa | This Is How It Ends • theMagunga (Shortlisted for the Brittle Paper Literary Awards, Creative Nonfiction/Memoir)