Isele Magazine
{{Short description|Nigerian literary magazine}}
{{Infobox magazine
| title = Isele Magazine
| image_file = Isele Magazine.jpg
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| language = English
| category = Literary Magazine
| company =
| editor = Ukamaka Olisakwe
| editor_title = Editor
| publisher = Ukamaka Olisakwe
| firstdate = 30 July 2020
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| website = {{url|http://www.iselemagazine.com/}}
| issn = 2766-2470
}}
Isele Magazine is a literary magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and book reviews.{{Cite web|last=C.J|first=Nelson|date=2020-08-31|title=From Lolwe to Isele Magazine, Africa's literary ecosystem is seeing a radical revival powered by young people » YNaija|url=https://ynaija.com/from-lolwe-to-isele-magazine-africas-literary-ecosystem-is-seeing-a-radical-revival-powered-by-young-people/|access-date=2021-10-15|website=YNaija|language=en-GB}}{{Cite news|last=Dahir|first=Abdi Latif|date=2021-07-17|title=The New Magazines and Journals Shaping Africa’s Literary Scene|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/17/world/africa/lolwe-doek-africa-literary-magazines.html|access-date=2021-10-15|issn=0362-4331}}
History
Isele Magazine was founded in July 2020 by Nigerian novelist Ukamaka Olisakwe.{{Cite web|last=Murua|first=James|author-link=James Murua|date=2020-07-30|title=The Ukamaka Olisakwe-founded Isele Magazine makes its debut.|url=https://www.writingafrica.com//the-ukamaka-olisakwe-founded-isele-magazine-makes-its-debut/|access-date=2024-05-11|website=Writing Africa|language=en-GB}}
In an interview with Open Country Mag, she explained that the magazine is a tribute to late grandmother, alias 'Isele Nwanyi', who was a dancer and a performance poet.{{Cite web|date=2021-09-06|title=A Novelist Entered Literary Curation, Still Honouring Her Feminist Roots|url=https://opencountrymag.com/a-novelist-entered-literary-curation-still-honouring-her-feminist-roots/|first=Paula|last=Willie-Okafor|access-date=2021-10-15|website=Open Country Mag|language=en-US}}
The magazine published its first issue in July 2020 and made a call for submissions, inviting "writers and artists who hold a mirror to our society, who challenge conventional expectations about ways of being, how to be, and who decides who should be."{{Cite web|last=Ogunyemi|first=Ernest|date=2020-08-13|title=Isele Magazine/ How to Submit (Payment: A Modest Token)|url=https://www.creativewritingnews.com/isele-magazine-how-to-submit-payment-a-modest-token/|access-date=2021-10-15|website=Creative Writing News|language=en-US}}
In October 2021, the magazine published a call for The Woman Issue, seeking submissions that "subvert the tropes and narratives associated with and definitive of womanhood."{{Cite web|title=Submission Guidelines|url=https://iselemagazine.com/submission-guidelines-2/|access-date=2021-11-17|language=en|website=Isele Magazine}}{{Cite web|last=Dougherty|first=Robin|title=Yale University Library Research Guides: African Collection, Yale University Library: Literature|url=https://guides.library.yale.edu/african-collection/literature|access-date=2021-10-15|website=Yale University Research Library|language=en}}
References
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