Fiery Scribe Review — Masthead 2026
The Board
Founder / Editor-in-Chief
Elisha Oluyemi
Elisha Oluyemi is a Yoruba writer who explores the planes of memory, existence, and madness. Joint-winner of the Brigitte Poirson Literature Prize for Short Story (2023) & winner of the Ikenga Short Story Prize (2023), he was shortlisted for the Isele Short Story Prize (2024) & the YWC Award for Short Story (2022). He is a contributing author for the Love Grows Stronger in Death anthology (Witsprouts, 2024) & Unbound: An Anthology of New Nigerian Poets Under 40 (Griots Lounge, 2024). He serves as a mentor in the SprinNG Writing Fellowship. Elisha's writing has been reviewed in Locus Magazine and appears in Strange Horizons, Lampblack, Lolwe, Mystery Tribune, Broken Antler, Isele Magazine, Illino, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, Brittle Paper, and elsewhere.
Fiction Editor
Olayinka Yaqub
Olayinka Yaqub is a Lagos-based Nigerian writer. His short works of fiction have won the Sandra Whiteley's Prize for Children's Literature and the Awele Creative Trust, and have been shortlisted for Sevhage's K&L Prize for Fiction, the Happy Noisemakers Prize for African Storytelling, and others. When not writing, he doubles as an engineering undergrad at the University of Lagos. His debut novel is set for publication in August 2025.
Fiction Editor
Okorie Divine
Okorie Divine is a writer, editor, and student of English and Literature at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. His works are available in Fiction Niche, African Writers Magazine, The Muse Journal, Brittle Paper and elsewhere. He emerged winner of the 2023 Abubakar Gimba Prize for Creative Nonfiction and was shortlisted for the Sevhage Prize for Creative Nonfiction. He tweets at OkorieDivine9.
Poetry Editor
Adesiyan Oluwapelumi
Adesiyan Oluwapelumi, TPC XI, is a medical student, poet, and essayist. Winner of the Team Booktu Poetry Contest (2024), he & his works are featured in 20.35, Fantasy Magazine, Poet Lore, Tab Journal, Poetry Wales, Variant Literature & elsewhere. A 2023 Adroit Journal Summer Mentee & a 2023 SprinNG Writers' Fellow, his works were selected for inclusion in the Annual Outstanding Young Writers Anthology (Paper Crane, 2023). He tweets @ademindpoems
Poetry Editor
Frank Njugi
Frank Njugi is a Kenyan self-taught Writer, Page Poet, Culture Journalist and Critic. He has had his poetry published/forthcoming in platforms such as Down River Road KE, Brittle Paper, Akewi Magazine, 20.35 Africa , Shallow Tales Review, Konya Shamsrumi, Roi Feineant press, Olney magazine, Kalahari Review, African Writer magazine, The Standard Kenya Newspaper and others. He has also written on arts and Literary culture for platforms such as Debunk Media, The Star Kenya Newspaper, Sinema Focus, Culture Africa, Wakilisha Africa, The Moveee, Africa in Dialogue and Afrocritik where he is a staff writer. A 2023 Pushcart Prize Nominee, Frank Njugi was named runners-up in the 2023 ILS-Fence Fellowship seminar and has previously been longlisted for the Akachi Chukwuemeka Prize for Literature 2023 and won a Sevhage-Agema Founder's Prize in 2023 as well. He was also a Sondeka Awards nominee 2023. He tweets as @franknjugi.
The Readers
Poetry Reader
Michael Okafor
Michael Okafor is an Igbo-born writer from Nigeria. His works explore family, grief, loss, and want. He is a member of the Nwokike Literary Club. A fellow of the SprinNG Creative Writing Fellowship. A first runner-up at the 2023 SprinNG Annual Poetry Contest. His poem was longlisted for the Briefly Write Poetry Prize 2023. He has works in, or is forthcoming in Writers Space Africa, The Borderline Review, Shuzia Magazine, Riverbed Review and elsewhere. He writes from Enugu, Nigeria. You can connect with him on Instagram @okaformichael0808, and X @okaformichael0808_.
Poetry Reader
Ayòdéjì Israel
Ayòdéjì Israel, a poet, writer, and editor, is a Pushcart Prize nominee. He is an editor at Outlander Magazine and a reader at Fiery Scribe Review. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Channel Magazine, Sandy River Review, Whale Road Review & elsewhere. You can find him on Twitter @Ayo_einstein.
Poetry Reader
Olusoji Obebe
Olusoji Obebe is a law student at the University of Benin, a creative writer & legal editor at Lawrit Journal of Law. He's twice a BoTN nominee, 3rd Prize Winner of African Human Rights Short Story Competition 2023 & Winner of Fidelis Okoro's Prize For Poetry 2024. His works are published/forthcoming in the UNBOUND anthology, The Expressionist Review, Brittle Paper, Morrab Library(UK), The Shallow Tales Review, Lumerie Review, ANA Review, Pepper Coast Lit, & elsewhere. He tweets @olusoji_obebe.
Poetry Reader
Mathew Daniel
Mathew Daniel (he/him) is a poetry enthusiast, a volunteer reviewer at Writers Space Africa. His works have appeared in Writers Space Africa, Olney Magazine, Konya Shamsrumi, Poetic Africa, Peppercoast Lit, and elsewhere. He tweets @MathewDaniel
Fiction Reader
Nwanne Agwu
Nwanne Agwu is from Ọkpọsị, Nigeria. He has been longlisted twice for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and shortlisted for the Isele Nonfiction Prize. Nwanne has been or will be published in West Branch, Southern Humanities Review, The Republic, Isele Magazine, Southword, The Mukana Anthology of African Writing, and elsewhere. On Twitter (X), he's @NwanneAgwu.
Fiction Reader
Munachimso Ochiabutor
Munachimso Ochiabutor is a writer who resides in Nigeria. He sees writing as an escape from the complexities of reality. His works have appeared in Kalahari Review, Kenga Mag, Crater Library, and Lolwe. He was a finalist for the Crystal Wilkinson Writing Prize, 2021, and was the winner of the National Entertainment Law Essay Competition, 2021. He is a Fiction Reader at Fiery Scribe Review. He also holds a First Class Law degree from the University of Nigeria Nsukka. He loves God, his niece, and books, exactly in that order.
Nonfiction Reader
Winifred Òdúnóku
Winifred Òdúnóku is a writer who sees writing as an art of self-expression. Her works have been published in Isele Magazine, Revista Periferias, Kalahari Review, The Moveee, Ilford Review, Nnöko Stories, Ngiga Review, Punocracy, among others. You can find her on Twitter @w1n1fr3d_.
Nonfiction Reader
Kelvin Jaluo Shachile
Kelvin Jaluo Shachile is a Kenyan creative and curator. He co-authored Hell in the Backyard and Other Stories. His writing has appeared in The Armageddon and Other Stories Anthology, A Country of Broken Boys Anthology, The Best New African Poets 2018 Anthology, Agbowó, Writer Space Africa, Kalahari Review, Akewí and elsewhere. Long listed for African Writers Awards and shortlisted for the Wakini Kuria Prize in 2019, he got his B.A from Maasai Mara University and M.A from Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology-Kenya. He is the former admin at Lolwe and worked shortly on the communications team at Agbowó.
