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Gloria Mwaniga Odary
GLORIA MWANIGA ODARY is a writer based in Nairobi whose work has appeared in The Nation, The Johannesburg Review of Books, Munyori Literary Journal and Ebedi Review. She is a recipient of the 2019 Miles Morland Writing Scholarship and has been shortlisted for the Writivism Prize and the Goethe Afro Young Adult Story Competition. She is currently revising her first book, an adventure novel that follows a young female drifter growing up in small towns across Kenya.  

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How Much Is That Doggie In The Window?

Fiction

August 2022

Gloria Mwaniga Odary

Fiction

August 2022

The day Mama threw a cooking stick at Kagonya was a November day so hot that the ripened bananas hanging on sisal rope from...

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poetry

September 2011

The Cinematographer, a 42-year-old man named Miyagawa, aimed his camera directly at the sun, which at first probably seemed like a bad idea

Michael Earl Craig

poetry

September 2011

Last night Kurosawa’s woodcutter strode through the forest, his axe on his shoulder. Intense sunlight stabbed and sparkled and...

poetry

February 2015

In bed with the radio

Péter Závada

TR. Mark Baczoni

poetry

February 2015

IN BED WITH THE RADIO   You’d turned against me. There’s safety in knowing, I thought. Like lying in...

poetry

May 2015

Europe

Kirill Medvedev

TR. Keith Gessen

poetry

May 2015

I’m riding the bus with a group of athletes from some provincial town they’re going to a competition in...

 

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