Writing

SELECTED WRITING

FICTION 

• 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 Insomina” 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

• Waist Beads (Isele, 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, 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 (Plentitudes Journal, 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)