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| Editor | Ukamaka Olisakwe |
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| Categories | Literary Magazine |
| Publisher | Ukamaka Olisakwe |
| First issue | 30 July 2020 |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 2766-2470 |
Isele Magazine is a literary magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and book reviews. [1] [2]
Isele Magazine was founded in July 2020 by Nigerian novelist Ukamaka Olisakwe. [3]
In an interview with Open Country Mag, she explained that the magazine is a tribute to late grandmother, alias 'Isele Nwanyi', who was a dancer and a performance poet. [4]
The magazine published its first issue in July 2020 and made a call for submissions, inviting "writers and artists who hold a mirror to our society, who challenge conventional expectations about ways of being, how to be, and who decides who should be." [5]
In October 2021, the magazine published a call for The Woman Issue, seeking submissions that "subvert the tropes and narratives associated with and definitive of womanhood." [6] [7]
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