Publications - Rafeeat Aliyu

Publications.

Short stories and flash fiction

“Descendants of Balance” | ZamaShort Book 14
“Fireflies, Captive within Her” | midnight & indigo
“Lamentations of Recreation” | Lolwe
“Closer than a Shadow” | Ubwali Literary Magazine
“The Notes They Lost” | Many Worlds
“Yoyin of the Captivating Form” | Omenana: 10th Anniversary Edition
“Land of Prophetic Women” | A Mind to Silence and other stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2021-22
“58 normas para que tu marido quiera para siempre” | Crononauta | (58 Rules translated to the Spanish)
“Fruit of the Calabash” | Brittle Paper (free download here)
“To Say Nothing of Lost Figurines” | Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora (Volume One)
“Where the Rain Mothers Are” | Strange Horizons
“58 Rules to Ensure Your Husband Loves You Forever” | Nightmare | 2019 Locus Recommended Reading List
“The Daemon King of Engim” | FIYAH
“The 4:15 Appointment” | Omenana
“Sweet Like Pawpaw” | Omenana
“Debug” | Omenana
“Ofe!” | AfroSF Science Fiction by African Writers, ed. Ivor Hartman

Others…

Check out Nameless, a book I wrote in collaboration with seven writers over five days using the Book Sprint method.

She Called Me Woman: Nigeria’s Queer Women Speak, ed. Rafeeat Aliyu, Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan
“A Roundtable: To Be African, a Mother and an Entrepreneur” | AMAKA
“Cross River superhighway pushes forth despite pushback” | Heinrich Boll Stiftung, Abuja
“Moving Past Afrofuturism“, an interview with writer, photographer and activist Masiyaleti Mbewe | Perspectives
“Inside the underground rock and metal scene in Lagos” | TrueAfrica
“Four badass women from North African history you should know” | Nzinga Effect
“The limits of imagining pleasure: Writing the history of African sex” | ThisisAfrica.me
“Chill + Wildly Creative: My Chale Wote Experience” | ACCRA [dot] ALT