Fiction

First Place Winner: Mama By Yvonne Stafford 3AM. Anna from upstairs banging on the door, yelling at the top of her [Read More]

Enter AV’s 280 Character Flash Fiction Contest & Win up to $150 in Cash! African Voices is celebrating [Read More]

Edwidge Danticat wins $50,000 “American Nobel” Congratulations to Edwidge Danticat on winning Neustadt Prize! [Read More]

“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and [Read More]

The Expat by Ozimede Sunny Ekhalume On the production line, he sighted one of the pickers tuck away sachets [Read More]

The Painting by Itoro Udofia If you ever wondered how the seeds of self-hate were supplanted into our psyche, try going [Read More]

Photo: Chatabox. JEZELLE THE GAZELLE By Dominique Morisseau (Created for the 10×10 Festival at American Theatre [Read More]

FICTION Recollecting Holy Ground, an Iron, and a Washtub By Marsha Cann See this old iron? My mother kept this iron [Read More]

Incubation (Novel Excerpt – Work-in-progress) by Nelly Rosario And so it is that Monday morning, after a weekend of [Read More]

by Toya Wolfe Grandma’s from Jackson, Mississippi, so you know she can go to work on cornbread and buttermilk or [Read More]

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