CNF Editor

Fiske is a Zambian author and journalist based in Lusaka. She is currently an editor at Bird Story Agency, an African news agency and project of Africa No Filter. Some of her nonfiction work appears in the following publications: The Kalahari Review, LAPP Magazine UK, Meeting of Minds UK, Urban Ivy Chicago, The Kitchen Witch Newsletter, Boldly Mental, Nikki Darling Australia, Our House LA and Pink Boot Magazine. She was a 2020 PenPen African Writers Resident. Her fiction work appears in online spaces such as Brittlepaper (The Go the Way Your Blood Beats Anthology), The Writers Space Africa 2019 magazine Love issue and Unbound magazine. Her first children's title was published in Cricket Magazine's holiday-themed issue in 2019. She has co-created three children’s books for the South African Book Dash marathons held in Johannesburg, online and in Italy. Her fantasy novella, Finding Love in Betrayal, was published by Love Africa Press in 2019. Her short story, Pain by Any Other Name, was shortlisted for the 2019 and 2022 Kalemba Short Story Prize. She is a graduate of the 2019 Afro Young Adult Workshop held in Johannesburg by the Goethe Institut and facilitated by South African writer, Mohale Mashigo. Her short story “Aftermath” was published in the Myaambo Zambian anthology in 2020.

Fiction Editor

Mbozi is an award-winning short story writer, currently working on her debut novel. Born and raised in Zambia, her African childhood heavily influences Mbozi's fiction. Mbozi holds a Master of Studies in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge and won a grant from Arts Council England in 2019 to further develop her creative practice. Mbozi splits her time between the UK and Zambia.

Poetry Editor | Editor-in-Chief

Mubanga is a Zambian attorney, editor and writer. She is the author of The Mourning Bird (Jacana), unmarked graves (Tusculum University Press) and Obligations to the Wounded (University of Pittsburgh Press), Another Mother Does Not Come When Yours Dies (Wayfarer Books) and Shipikisha (Dzanc Books). She is also the winner of the Dzanc Books Fiction Prize (2024), Drue Heinz Literature Prize (2024), selected by Angie Cruz; the Tusculum Review Poetry Chapbook Contest (2022), selected by Carmen Giménez; the Dinaane Debut Fiction Award (2019) &; Kalemba Short Story Prize (2019). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Overland, adda, Waxwing, Contemporary Verse 2, on Netflix and elsewhere. Her creative practice has received support from the Young African Leadership Initiative, the Hubert H. Humphrey (Fulbright) Fellowship, the Hawkinson Scholarship for Peace and Justice, the Africa Institute and the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She is the founding editor of Ubwali Literary Magazine, a current Miles Morland Scholar, and a PhD student an Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC) scholar at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.

Visual Arts Editor

Namukolo is a portraits and events photographer from Lusaka. She has been a photographer since 2016 and owns Eness Photography. Her work has been featured in Nkwazi Magazine, on the book cover of iconic lawyer and human rights activist Linda Kasonde's memoir 'Women, Resilience, and The Will To Lead.' and has been shortlisted for a Sony Photo Awards Creative category. Namukolo is the official photographer for the Techtrends Zambia Awards 2024. She freelances for Reuters and enjoys working with local businesses as well as women's rights groups.

Interviews Editor

Akal is a Kenyan short story writer, essayist and poet. He has previously been shortlisted for the Africa Writers’ Award in poetry. Akal is also a 2023 Idembeka Creative Writing fellow and Ibua Novel Manuscript workshop attendee. In 2022, he was a recipient of two digital residencies organised by the University of East Anglia, one of which resulted to a short story collection that he contributed to. Akal reads in trust and writes in faith.