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/c...

Submissions are now open for our next quarterly! For this quarterly issue, we are seeking submissions that explore rituals – both the quiet, personal habits that shape our days and the communal, cultural ceremonies that bind generations. Read here: iselemagazine.com/2025/06/02/c...

Latest @iselemagazine.bsky.social! 💙📚 iselemagazine.com/ephemeral-mo...

bullets & blossoms—an experiment inspired by a real-life incident. by making the familiar strange, i hope i made the strange familiar. thank you for giving this explosion a chance, @iselemagazine.bsky.social @msolisakwe.bsky.social link: iselemagazine.com/2025/04/30/b...

Happy to share that I have a tiny genre-blurring piece, "A Forking of Perches", in @iselemagazine.bsky.social's quarterly issue, Ephemeral Moments. ✨💌 My piece can be found here: iselemagazine.com/2025/04/30/a...

For our first quarterly issue of the year, we explore the fleeting beauty of life’s impermanence. Featuring Victor Forna, Solomon Peabo, Doreen Masika, Kabubu Mutua, Lucy Zhang, Celeste Colarič-Gonzales, and more. Read our Ephemeral Moments issue: iselemagazine.com/ephemeral-mo...

thank you to @iselemagazine.bsky.social for accepting my poems to be published in their next issue - Ephemeral. #BskyPoets #SkyPoets #PoetryCommunity

Maobi lives at No. 39 Faulks Street with 99 other children. Under Madam Principal's guidance, the children partake in most unusual activities of witchcraft... Masterful work of #africanjujuism by @etherealilo.bsky.social in @iselemagazine.bsky.social iselemagazine.com/2020/10/22/t...

'Phases', byTramaine Suubi, 'The Tiny Things are Heavier', by Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo, and 'The Years of Blood', by Adedayo Agarau on 'Isele Magazine''s list of 25 Most Anticipated Books of 2025

Call for Submissions: Ephemeral – The Beauty in Impermanence

Riah Hopkins in Conversation with Court Ludwick iselemagazine.com/2025/01/28/r...

Mariam Oyewunmi Tijani's "My Grandma’s Memory Box" has won the 2024 Abebi Award in Afro-Nonfiction Prize! #TheAbebiInstitute Read her winning essay here: iselemagazine.com/2025/01/17/m...

Link to the essay! It's been published in @iselemagazine.bsky.social iselemagazine.com/2025/01/17/r...

“Traditions demand our attention. They need time to become and remain a thing. The last time I saw Sister Bisi, she expressed how proud she was of my writing and journey. She died…and the carol died with her. A thing falls apart to reveal whose labour pillared it.” iselemagazine.com/2024/12/06/s...

Featuring new titles by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Chika Unigwe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo and many others, here are our 25 Most Anticipated Books of 2025. iselemagazine.com/2025/01/03/e...

Poetry by Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo: "Brief," "An Exchange of Equal Things," "Come, Sit," and "A Walk in Time" | 'Isele Magazine' iselemagazine.com/2024/12/06/f...

thankful to @iselemagazine.bsky.social for including Sports Ball in their new issue… #shortfiction iselemagazine.com/the-air-we-b...

honoured to be featured in this quarterly edition of @iselemagazine.bsky.social themed on "The Air We Breathe"

Thank you @iselemagazine.bsky.social for publishing my non-fiction essay "Autumn Smoke" in the themed edition "The Air We Breathe". What a happy way to end the year. iselemagazine.com/2024/12/30/a... #writingcommunity #amwriting

For our last quarterly issue of 2024, we present works that revolve around air pollution and the resilience of life forms living in polluted environments. Featuring Nathaniel Krenkel, Great Opera, Sumedha Shukla, Moseka Ole Ntiyia, Alobu Emmanuel and more. Read: iselemagazine.com/the-air-we-b...

“You went to the Savoy to see Chick Webb. We go to Chick-fil-A.” new piece published in @iselemagazine.bsky.social iselemagazine.com/2024/12/30/s...

From Tolu Daniel’s “Notes of a Nonresident Alien” to Kemi Falodun’s stirring piece, “Some Seasons I Have known,” check out our top ten most popular essays of this year. iselemagazine.com/2024/12/23/t...

From Adams Adeosun’s “Matrimony” to Chantelle Chiwetalu’s “Koala, Koala, Koala,” check out our top ten most popular fiction of this year. iselemagazine.com/2024/12/23/t...

From Mubanga Kalimamukwento’s three poems to Adedayo Agarau’s memorable lines, check out our top ten most popular poems of this year. iselemagazine.com/2024/12/23/t...

Read Lucia Edafioka’s new short story: iselemagazine.com/2024/12/06/f...

Today we publish our final regular issue of the year. A special one! Featuring the Booker Prize-longlisted author Karen Jennings, Adedayo Agarau, Timothy Ogene, Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo, Kemi Falodun, Lucia Edafioka, and more. Read here: iselemagazine.com/december-2024/