Frances Ogamba is a Nigerian short story writer.
In 2019, Ogamba's nonfiction piece "The Valley of Memories", exploring the way in which a woman feels a bodily connection with her deceased uncle, won the
Koffi Addo Prize for Creative Nonfiction. Her short story "Ghana Boy", centring on the relationship between a young boy and his gang leader elder brother, was also shortlisted for the 2019
Writivism Short Story Prize. In 2020, her story "My Husband's Wife" was the English-language winner of the inaugural Kalahari Short Story Prize.
Ogamba lives in
Port Harcourt, where she works as a content developer.
Frances Ogamba
''Rewrite Reads''. Accessed 5 December 2020.
Works
Call Her No One
Craft Literary
The Valley of Memories
Afreecan Reads.
The Tribute
YNaija, 2016.
The Grandpa Whose Head was not Correct
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A review of The Valley of Memories
Arts and Africa, 20 May 2019.
Ghana Boy
Munyori Literary Journal, 20 May 2019.
Hues of Perfection
Jalada, 14 December 2019.
Tree People
Rewrite Reads, Issue 1, November 2020.
* "My Husband's Wife", 2020.
Love for Ashes
The Dark Magazine, 1 January 2021.
Like Large Bodies of Light
Chestnut Review, February, 2021.
Must Read Speculative Short Fiction for February 2021
TOR.COM, 2021.
Temz Review
Water Child
The Dark Magazine, 1 May 2021.
The Urn
The Dark Magazine, 1 June 2021.
Factory Baby
Yabaleft Review, 24 July 2021.
The Hide's Effect
The Dark Magazine, 1 October 2021.
Under the Sentinel's Watch
Lolwe, November, 2021.
The Kings Street Barbers
Dgeku, January 2022.
On the Brink
Midnight & Indigo, March 2022.
For Ibiso
Cinnabar Moth.
Master of Ceremonies
The Dark Magazine, 1 May 2022.
Reaching for Ijenu
New Orleans Review, Spring/Summer 2022
References
External links
In Conversation with Frances Ogamba
Open Country Mag Hosts Lolwe and Doek! Moderated by Frances Ogamba
‘Iberibe and Ogadinma: Women in Nigerian Fiction anchored by Frances Ogamba
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Nigerian short story writers
Nigerian women writers
People from Port Harcourt