Writing
SELECTED WRITING
FICTION
- “An Impossible Case” (Transition, 2025)
- “Visa Gods” (The Plentitudes, 2024)
- Dancing with Ma (adda, 2018)
- The Satans Inside my Jimmy (Short Story Day Africa, 2018)
- Waiting (Short Story Day Africa, 2017)
- Watchdog Games (The Caine Prize Anthology, A Memory This Size and Other Stories, 2013)
- The Axe (Mon pi Mon, 2014)
- The Dogs Are Hungry (Sooo Many Stories, 2014)
POETRY
- “A Journey By Beverage,” (SUNHOUSE, 2024)
- “The Past as Insomnia” and “What Stayed Behind” (The Weganda Review, 2024)
- “Home as Shrapnel,” “Failed Resurrection,” and “Reaching for Whatever the Wind Carries” (A Long House, 2024
- “How to Love a Broken Man,” “Lessons on My Mother’s Face,” and “Hail the Feet that Kick in Walls” (Isele, 2023)
- “The Night We Carry” (Brittle Paper, 2021)
- “The Stories Stranded in Our Throats,” “My Depression,” “Step by Step” (New Daughters of Africa: An Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent, 2019)
- “Woven Words” and “Stay” (Jalada Africa, 2019)
- “Wilobo Ka Onyongo I Dye Ngeyi/When the World Squats on Your Back” (Jalada Africa, 2015)
- “A Special Kind of Beautiful,” “Our Normal,” and “Fire and Water’ (Go Tell Home, FEMRITE Publications, 2018).
- “Sharing My Man with a Country” (Enkare Review, 2016)
NONFICTION
- “Privileged Despair” (The Weganda Review, 2024)
- ’Waist Beads” (Isele Magazine, 2023)
- “New Introduction: Twelve Years a Slave and the Still Turning Wheel of Racism in America.” Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup. London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2023. pp.14-34
- “Five Questions – Ber Anena” (Isele Magazine, 2023)
- “To the Passenger Who Sat Elsewhere” (Off Assignment, 2023)
- “Vagina Diaries” (adda, 2023)
- “On impolite literature: The portrayal of Taban Lo Liyong in Times Literary Supplement and The Sunday Times, 1970-1976” (African Poetry Digital Portal, 2023)
- “Interrogating the portrayal of Okot p’Bitek’s song poems by Times Literary Supplement from 1971-1975” (African Poetry Digital Portal, 2023)
- “…and Laughter Will Replace Song” (The Plentitudes, 2022)
- “Tongue Travel” (The Kalahari Review, 2021)
- “The Earth Screams: I’m Thirsty” (adda, 2020)
- “I’m Emptying my Bank Account to go to Columbia” (The Atlantic, 2019)
- “The Place of a Woman in the LRA Insurgency” – Kristof Titeca, ed. Rebel Lives: Photographs from Inside the Lord’s Resistance Army. (Veurne: Hannibal Publishing, 288 p, 2019)
Book Reviews
- “A is for Acholi, Otoniya J. Okot Bitek dismantles language and form” (Brittle Paper, 2022)
- “Jennifer Makumbi’s New Novel is an Unapologetic and Multi-layered Take on Feminism” (Brittle Paper, 2020)
- “Ogadinma Or, Everything Will be All Right by Ukamaka Olisakwe” (Columbia Journal, 2020)
Commentary
- “News Flash: Museveni has Mao-ed Us All” (Daily Monitor, 2022)
- “A Sack of Cash: When President Museveni Makes it Rain” (Popula, 2018)
- “The End of Allowing: Bebe Cool, Bobi Wine & Uganda’s Bottle Revolution” (Popula, 2018)