Rešoketšwe is an engineer who works in mining research. But sometimes she’s a storyteller. She has won the 2019 Writivism Short Story Prize and the 2020 Dinaane Debut Fiction Award, and she was the first runner-up for the 2019 Collins Elesiro Prize for Fiction. Her short stories and poems have appeared in the Kalahari Review, Fireside Fiction, FIYAH, and the 2017 Sol Plaatjie European Union Anthology, among others. If you happen to meet her, please ask her about her debut novel from Jacana Media. It’s called Scatterlings, and she’s sure you’ll love it. But please, also talk to her about the endangered wild fruit Balobedu children once enjoyed in summer.

Edith K Magak is a Writing Fellow at African Liberty, a literary journalist at Africa in Dialogue, and a Creative Writer whose works have appeared in The Lazy Women, Brittle Paper, Critical Read, Urban Ivy, Jellyfish review, among others. Edith lives and writes in Nairobi, Kenya. twitter @oedithknight

Obinna Obioma is a liberal writer and social analyst. His writings have appeared or are forthcoming on Writers Space Africa, Active Muse, Lunaris, Afritondo, K and L, Love Africa Press and elsewhere. When he's not laughing at his own jokes, he's exploring the fantasies of worlds only a Coca-Cola-induced mind can conceive.

Chibuike Ogbonnaya is a gender fluid writer interested in writing stories of women, feminine gay men, transvestites, and genderqueer. Chibuike holds a combined honors in English and Literary Studies and History and International Studies from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. They recently completed a collection of thematically linked short stories featuring women, feminine gay men, transvestites, and gender queer. They are alumni of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus Creative Writing Workshop. Their work has appeared in Green Mountains Review, Stellium, and elsewhere. Chibuike is a developmental editor and also a staff writer at Afreecan Read.

"Chukwudumebi Oluwabusayo Onoh, a 21 year old Nigerian woman who, in the course of studying communications, became aware of the power dynamic in the global the media space which puts people like her at a constant disadvantage. She is passionate about her telling our stories as authentically as possible, and is intentional about normalising us because she believes that things will only be ideal once we are normalised, not necessarily mystified. She believes she has much to learn, unlearn and relearn. She believes that posing the question ‘why?’ is not always indicative of disrespect and defiance to ones cultural or religious sensibilities. Instead, it allows expansion and growth; so she continues to ask why, as she reads the Holy Bible that, at first glance, seems antithetical to who she thinks she is; as she takes in art, as she pens words down, as she experiences life, she asks, ‘why?’ And when she finds the answers, she lets her roots grow deeper so she can be part of the solution; yet when she does not find the answers, she finds peace because she trusts in the one who is the answer- The Truth, The Way and The Life.”

Jason Mykl Snyman is a writer from South Africa. His work has appeared in several publications, including New Contrast, Jalada Africa, Rock and a Hard Place, Kalahari Review, Helios Quarterly, The Examined Life Review, Expound, and more. He has been shortlisted for both the Short Story Day Africa and the Bloody Parchment prizes.