Isele Magazine is Here (and I'll be Guest Editing Nonfiction)

I’m very pleased to announce that I’ll be the Nonfiction Guest Editor for the first issue of Isele Magazine, alongside a phenomenal team of writers and editors.

Isele Magazine, the new publication started and edited by Ukamaka Olisakwe from her platform, The Body Conversation, goes live tomorrow, and with that, new fiction, nonfiction, photography and poetry from writers around the world.

From the Body Conversation’s website:

The Body Conversation is a platform for people from diverse communities who long for a safe space where they can talk about their experiences with pregnancy, childbirth, motherhood, and postpartum complications.

​Alongside publishing essays and stories that are centred around the above themes, we host webinars which are structured into episodes, and for each one, we invite a group of women and a medical professional to join us to talk about what happens to the woman’s body when she decides to have a baby.

I recently joined an incredible conversation about maternal mental health, childbirth and pregnancy, organised by Ukamaka, called Shattering the Silence (you can listen to the podcast here) and was extremely grateful to have my essay, Monstrous (shortlisted for the Gerald Kraak Award and included in the resulting LAMBDA-shortlisted anthology) republished on The Body Conversation’s site.

More from The Body Conversation:

The Body Conversation is a platform for people who have had children, those who want to have children, and everyone who wants to learn a few things about what happens to the body before, during and after childbirth. This community is necessary because we matter, because our bodies matter, because our mental health matters.