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Derek Lubangakene lives and works in Kampala, Uganda. Despite growing up in a house full of books, he only started writing after failing as an origami artist, a sketch-artist, and poet. Between his day job and his moonlighting as a writer, he also works as a contributing editor at Deyu African Magazine, an online repository of contemporary African writing.

He has been long-listed for the 2013 Golden Baobab Early-Chapter Book Prize, the 2017 Writivism Short Story Prize, and an honorable mention in the 2016 Short Story Day Africa Prize—Migration theme.
His work has appeared in Apex Magazine, Omenana, Enkare Review, River River Literary Journal, Prairie Schooner, The Missing Slate, The Kalahari Review, Lawino Magazine, the Imagine Africa 500 anthology, and with work forthcoming in Escape Pod.

He is currently working on his first novel.


Current Issue
4 Nov 2024

Djinndroid 
Outsiders, Off-worlders {how quickly one carves out a corner of the cosmos, / claims a singular celestial body as [o u r s] in the scope of infinity}
Departure: New Selene Station 21:56 
Lunar enby folks across here
The 2024 Ignyte Award for Best Novel Shortlist, Part One 
The 2024 Ignyte finalists for Best Novel collectively exemplify the “vibrancy and diversity” that the awards seek to celebrate.
The 2024 Ignyte Award for Best Novel Shortlist, Part Two 
The books shortlisted for the 2024 Ignyte Best Novel Award emphasise the role of co-operative action in addressing the problems faced by their characters—and their readers.
The Butcher’s Heart 
“Did you know,” the witch says, “that a witch has no heart of her own?”
Friday: A Place Between Waking and Forgetting by Eugen Bacon 
Issue 28 Oct 2024
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By: KT Bryski
Podcast read by: Devin Martin
Issue 14 Oct 2024
Issue 7 Oct 2024
By: Christopher Blake
Podcast read by: Emmie Christie
Issue 30 Sep 2024
Issue 23 Sep 2024
By: LeeAnn Perry
Art by: nino
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