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...

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...

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...

“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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

I really am happy with this new project. It’s taken me to unexpected places.

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

This issue is really special. I’m so moved by the quality of work we continue to publish at Isele, despite the challenges and all. Isele will be here for a long time and this special issue proves it. Please read and share.✨

New paperback in the mail.🥺 My Nigerian publishers are so thoughtful; they sold out the previous prints and returned with a new cover. I’m so lucky to have them.

I didn’t leave X because people there had different opinions and ideologies, I left because it stopped being fun. I get on social media to chat with people who think thinking is fun. X stopped being a place where that was true.

It’s finally Christmas on my street !✨🥺 They just lit the lights🎉

For the first time I wasn’t subjected to interrogation about Nigeria. Just long hours spent with an amazing family, eating and drinking and playing games. The world faded into the background and I didn’t want it to end.

This year’s Thanksgiving was, unarguably, my best since moving to the US.

Read Flora Nwapa’s Efuru again (for the fifth time) and my life is truly and utterly changed.

Read Kamran Javadizadeh’s essay two weeks ago and haven’t stopped thinking about it ever since. yalereview.org/article/kamr...

Anyway, I am so excited about our next issue coming up at Isele Magazine. The stories, the essays, the poems? They are some of the best we’ve gotten this year!

Opinions is now out in paperback! bookshop.org/p/books/opin...

Okay, I think this place really is home. That former place is no longer recognizable.

Watching Ex Machina for the fifth time and it feels new each time.