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#booktour2025
#booktour2024
#chicagogram
#twincitiesevents
#obligationstothewounded

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Let's give a warm Kimbilio welcome to Francees Ogamba, one of our new 2026 Fellows!

My name is Frances Ogamba, an essayist, editor, and a PhD student at the University of Missouri, Columbia. I completed my MFA in creative writing at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in May 2025. In my writing, I excavate past lives lived through different bodies, visit/revisit reincarnation and memory, and examine what memories we can carry across life cycles. My stories explore the gaps forced into my cultural/historical memory through different phases of colonial conquest. I am interested in this buried time: history, culture, genealogy, which returns through the human body rather than an official record. I am interested in bodies that become sources of archival retrieval, and blur spatial and temporal boundaries. I am also interested in internal and external migration: what it means to move across borders as an immigrant, and to write across language borders as a writer coming from hybrid cultures.

I am currently a fiction editor for Waxwing Magazine. Annually, I read entries for Idembeka creative writing workshop, a platform I co-founded which offers free writing classes for emerging writers who live and work on the African continent. I also fund the Frances Ogamba Scholarship for African Writers for Ubwali Magazine.

Instagram: @franceskaydee

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A photo dump of Writivism people and friends at the African Literature Association (ALA) annual conference that ended this weekend. Thanks to @ubwaliliterarymagazine for making many things possible.

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Frances Ogamba (@franceskaydee), award-winning Nigerian writer and 2025 JAY Lit Prize for Fiction judge, has been crowned as winner of the 2025 Gulliver Travel Grant from the Speculative Literature Foundation, and has been named one of ten finalists for the 2026 Chautauqua Janus Prize.

Frances has also been awarded the 2025 Gulliver Travel Grant by the Speculative Literature Foundation for her piece “The Further.”

Congratulations, Frances for this literary accomplishment 👏👏👏

👉Click the link in bio (www.jaylit.com) to read more.

Like ❤ | Comment 💬 | Share ✨ | Follow ☑ @jay_literature for more African literary content and opportunities.

#jaylit #africanliterature #literarycommunity #literaryawards

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Read new fiction by Frances Ogamba, and more, by subscribing to The Hopkins Review today!

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Frances Ogamba (@franceskaydee) joins Black Boy Review as Guest Editor for 2026. We open our first call for Nigerian fiction writers at home in Nigeria and in the diaspora.
Submissions open 22 April - 7 June. Link in bio to read all details.

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We are thrilled to announce the ✨10 finalists✨ for our 2026 Chautauqua Janus Prize.

🎉Congratulations🎉 Marguerite Alley, Andres Cordoba, Bryan Thomas Daly, KaToya Ellis Fleming, Anaïs Godard, Isha Karki, Nicole Khamooshi, Hassaan Mirza, Frances Ogamba, and Christina Trujillo!

Thank you to our independent jury of readers for their hard work during another record-breaking year of entries for our prize and to our donors for their support of emerging, innovative writers.

A winner will be selected by guest judge, Deborah A. Miranda, and announced in early May. Read more at janus.chq.org

#chautauquajanusprize #2026JanusPrize #CHQ2026 #ChautauquaLiteraryArts

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Introducing the judges for the 2025 JAY Lit Awards

- Bash Amuneni (@bashamuneni) / Poetry
- Eugen Bacon (@eugenbacon) / Fiction
- Frances Ogamba (@franceskaydee) / Non-Fiction

#2025JAYLitAwards

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Apply to the @idembeka Creative Writing workshop (held January 5-9, 2026 on Google Meets) if you’re an African living in Africa and do not have more than three publications (excluding self-published work). Deadline is November 15, 2025 (or when 100 entries are received, whichever comes first) and application link is in our story.

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From Nigeria to the Global Stage! ✨🥳

We’re overjoyed to congratulate Frances Ogamba @franceskaydee, who has been named a Novel Scholar at the prestigious 2025 Tin House Summer Workshop—one of the world’s most competitive literary programs.

Supported by mentorship, craft lectures, and community, Frances is poised to take her book-length project to the next level. This recognition is a testament to her extraordinary talent and storytelling prowess! 💫

Let’s cheer for her as she embarks on this exhilarating creative journey!

Click the link in bio (www.jaylit.com) to read up on literary activities around Africa.

Like❤️, Comment💬, Share✨and Follow☑️ @jay_literature for more African literary news and opportunities.

#jaylit #africanauthors #literarycommunity #literaryachievement

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