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 the winner of the 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 appears in adda, Overland, Menelique, on Netflix, and elsewhere. She has received support from the Young African Leadership Initiative, the Hubert H. Humphrey (Fulbright) Fellowship, the Hawkinson Scholarship for Peace and Justice and the Africa Institute. Her editorial work can be found or is forthcoming in Safundi, Doek! Literary Magazine, Shenandoah and The Water~Stone Review. When she isn't writing or editing, she mentors at the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. Mubanga is a current Miles Morland Scholar, Shenandoah Editorial Fellow, and a Don Lavoie Fellow at George Mason University. This fall, Mubanga joins the department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) as a PhD student in Feminist Studies. Her debut collection of stories Obligations to the Wounded, is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press.

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.

Editorial Assistant

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 organized 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.