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Ubwali Masterclass Anthology - Class of 2024
Fiction
The Realm of Owls
The Ancestor’s Bets
Blue’s Lie
Fugue
The Burgundy Umbrella
Closer Than A Shadow
The Way Sundays End
Echoes
All Fun and Games
To Moult or Not
Weapons of Warfare
You Can Always Go Back Home
I Never Asked You to Leave Anything Behind
Words for the Lost Child
Hometown Glory
Two Prayers A Day
Fifteen Years
A Time To Ask
How it Should Be
While The World Slept
Let Us Cross to The Other Side
Beneath the Riverbed
The Dhakir of the Village
How to Move in The Dark
The Boy and the Man
The Mofwe Tree
Poetry
When you died
Transfigure, At Peniel & Benediction with Paschal Lamb
Hymn for the Unforgiven
A Shrink's Shrewd Answer & Words Wreathed into a Eulogy For The Desert
my friends tell me to marry her
Projecting & Heavensgate
Old Age & Skin
A Beautiful Woman is Easier to Forgive
Portrait of a Broken Blade
Silent Noise
Shame
Two Poems
Jubilation
The Vine
Nocturnal
A 2019 Survey on How People Imagine Themselves Dying
COMMITTED VIRGIN, NSIMA & Incest
Glimmers & Metaphors for Drowning
hidden melody
A Dry Spell
BEHIND LIFE’S SCENES
Static Hourglass & Icalo Cabula Imfumu
Grape Seeds, Shed the Load & The Lost Battle
A PLAYLIST FOR A THIRSTY MAN
Siren Song
Kasala (for a first-born twin), COFFEE & BLOOD ORANGE
Names & Origin, & What I Know About Hope
A Ladder of Grief, Alzheimer & Cycling Emotions
From the Ashes, Bella & Nature’s Breath
Perhaps I am the Devil & Other poems
3 Poems
5 Poems
Dear Future Ntwenukané
Akabwe & Other poems
Essays
Finding Butterflies
Thoughtlets on Immersion
A Sparkling Jewel of Fate
Fading Days
Conditioned Roots
The beacons. The bearers of our light.
Startled
Vignette of Mum’s Ever Changing Emotional Complexion
Like Mother
I Lost My Appetite
Photography
Yapa Street
Black is Beauty
A Palimpset of Kosamdi
God’s Time is the Best
The Innocence of a Child
Movement: A Series of Images
Everyday
About Us
Submissions
Ubwali Story
Our Authors
Masthead
Ubwali Masterclass
About the Masterclass
2025 Masterclass
2024 Masterclass
The Hope Prize
About The Prize
2025
2024
The Hope Prize Mentorship Program
Ubwali Interview Series
From The Editor
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Ubwali Masterclass Anthology - Class of 2024
Fiction
The Realm of Owls
The Ancestor’s Bets
Blue’s Lie
Fugue
The Burgundy Umbrella
Closer Than A Shadow
The Way Sundays End
Echoes
All Fun and Games
To Moult or Not
Weapons of Warfare
You Can Always Go Back Home
I Never Asked You to Leave Anything Behind
Words for the Lost Child
Hometown Glory
Two Prayers A Day
Fifteen Years
A Time To Ask
How it Should Be
While The World Slept
Let Us Cross to The Other Side
Beneath the Riverbed
The Dhakir of the Village
How to Move in The Dark
The Boy and the Man
The Mofwe Tree
Poetry
When you died
Transfigure, At Peniel & Benediction with Paschal Lamb
Hymn for the Unforgiven
A Shrink's Shrewd Answer & Words Wreathed into a Eulogy For The Desert
my friends tell me to marry her
Projecting & Heavensgate
Old Age & Skin
A Beautiful Woman is Easier to Forgive
Portrait of a Broken Blade
Silent Noise
Shame
Two Poems
Jubilation
The Vine
Nocturnal
A 2019 Survey on How People Imagine Themselves Dying
COMMITTED VIRGIN, NSIMA & Incest
Glimmers & Metaphors for Drowning
hidden melody
A Dry Spell
BEHIND LIFE’S SCENES
Static Hourglass & Icalo Cabula Imfumu
Grape Seeds, Shed the Load & The Lost Battle
A PLAYLIST FOR A THIRSTY MAN
Siren Song
Kasala (for a first-born twin), COFFEE & BLOOD ORANGE
Names & Origin, & What I Know About Hope
A Ladder of Grief, Alzheimer & Cycling Emotions
From the Ashes, Bella & Nature’s Breath
Perhaps I am the Devil & Other poems
3 Poems
5 Poems
Dear Future Ntwenukané
Akabwe & Other poems
Essays
Finding Butterflies
Thoughtlets on Immersion
A Sparkling Jewel of Fate
Fading Days
Conditioned Roots
The beacons. The bearers of our light.
Startled
Vignette of Mum’s Ever Changing Emotional Complexion
Like Mother
I Lost My Appetite
Photography
Yapa Street
Black is Beauty
A Palimpset of Kosamdi
God’s Time is the Best
The Innocence of a Child
Movement: A Series of Images
Everyday
About Us
Submissions
Ubwali Story
Our Authors
Masthead
Ubwali Masterclass
About the Masterclass
2025 Masterclass
2024 Masterclass
The Hope Prize
About The Prize
2025
2024
The Hope Prize Mentorship Program
Ubwali Interview Series
From The Editor
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The Ancestor’s Bets
Blue’s Lie
Fugue
The Burgundy Umbrella
Closer Than A Shadow
The Way Sundays End
Echoes
All Fun and Games
To Moult or Not
Weapons of Warfare
You Can Always Go Back Home
I Never Asked You to Leave Anything Behind
Words for the Lost Child
Hometown Glory
Two Prayers A Day
Fifteen Years
A Time To Ask
How it Should Be
While The World Slept
Let Us Cross to The Other Side
Beneath the Riverbed
The Dhakir of the Village
How to Move in The Dark
The Boy and the Man
The Mofwe Tree
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When you died
Transfigure, At Peniel & Benediction with Paschal Lamb
Hymn for the Unforgiven
A Shrink's Shrewd Answer & Words Wreathed into a Eulogy For The Desert
my friends tell me to marry her
Projecting & Heavensgate
Old Age & Skin
A Beautiful Woman is Easier to Forgive
Portrait of a Broken Blade
Silent Noise
Shame
Two Poems
Jubilation
The Vine
Nocturnal
A 2019 Survey on How People Imagine Themselves Dying
COMMITTED VIRGIN, NSIMA & Incest
Glimmers & Metaphors for Drowning
hidden melody
A Dry Spell
BEHIND LIFE’S SCENES
Static Hourglass & Icalo Cabula Imfumu
Grape Seeds, Shed the Load & The Lost Battle
A PLAYLIST FOR A THIRSTY MAN
Siren Song
Kasala (for a first-born twin), COFFEE & BLOOD ORANGE
Names & Origin, & What I Know About Hope
A Ladder of Grief, Alzheimer & Cycling Emotions
From the Ashes, Bella & Nature’s Breath
Perhaps I am the Devil & Other poems
3 Poems
5 Poems
Dear Future Ntwenukané
Akabwe & Other poems
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Essays
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Finding Butterflies
Thoughtlets on Immersion
A Sparkling Jewel of Fate
Fading Days
Conditioned Roots
The beacons. The bearers of our light.
Startled
Vignette of Mum’s Ever Changing Emotional Complexion
Like Mother
I Lost My Appetite
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Photography
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Yapa Street
Black is Beauty
A Palimpset of Kosamdi
God’s Time is the Best
The Innocence of a Child
Movement: A Series of Images
Everyday
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About Us
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Submissions
Ubwali Story
Our Authors
Masthead
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Ubwali Masterclass
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About the Masterclass
2025 Masterclass
2024 Masterclass
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