Frances Ogamba
Frances Ogamba is a Nigerian short story writer.
In 2019, Ogamba's nonfiction piece "The Valley of Memories", exploring the way in which a woman feels a bodily connection with her deceased uncle, won the Koffi Addo Prize for Creative Nonfiction. Her short story "Ghana Boy", centring on the relationship between a young boy and his gang leader elder brother, was also shortlisted for the 2019 Writivism Short Story Prize. In 2020, her story "My Husband's Wife" was the English-language winner of the inaugural Kalahari Short Story Prize.
Ogamba lives in Port Harcourt, where she works as a content developer.
Works
- , Craft Literary
- , Afreecan Reads.
- , YNaija, 2016.
- , great weather for Media.
- , Arts and Africa, 20 May 2019.
- , Munyori Literary Journal, 20 May 2019.
- , Jalada, 14 December 2019.
- , Rewrite Reads, Issue 1, November 2020.
- "My Husband's Wife", 2020.
- , The Dark Magazine, 1 January 2021.
- , Chestnut Review, February, 2021.
- TOR.COM, 2021.
- Temz Review
- The Dark Magazine, 1 May 2021.
- The Dark Magazine, 1 June 2021.
- Yabaleft Review, 24 July 2021.
- , The Dark Magazine, 1 October 2021.
- , Lolwe, November, 2021.
- , Dgeku, January 2022.
- , Midnight & Indigo, March 2022.
- , Cinnabar Moth.
- , The Dark Magazine, 1 May 2022.
- , New Orleans Review, Spring/Summer 2022