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In the Land of Fiction and Fake News

By Elizabeth Mitchell

Lost for Words

By Stewart L. Sinclair

Poem About Human Habits of Consumption That Begins with Contemplating the Walnut in My Yard

Poetry by Felicia Zamora

Back Draft: Lisa Dillman

By Ben Purkert and Lisa Dillman

Helon Habila

Helon Habila a former journalist from Lagos, Nigeria, won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2001. In 2002, his first novel, Waiting for An Angel: Fiction won the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Novel (Africa Section) in 2003. In 2007, his second novel, Measuring Time: A Novel, won the Virginia Library Foundation’s fiction award in 2008. Habila’s third novel, Oil on Water, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2011 and the Orion Book Award in 2012. It was also a runner up for the PEN Open Book Award in 2012. In 2011, Habila edited The Granta Book of the African Short Story. He has been a contributing editor for the Virginia Quarterly Review since 2004. He lives in Virginia with his wife and three children.
https://www.helonhabila.com
Fiction Africa

A Man of the People

By Helon Habila December 3, 2012

He takes her hand, careful to keep his eyes away from her dominant breasts, her full pouty lips, and they begin in the living room.

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