Frances Ogamba

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.

Awards

• 2025 Gulliver's Travel grant
• 2025 Horror Writers' Diversity Grant
• 2024 Miles Morland Scholarship
• 2024 Jacobson Scholarship from The Hawkinson Fund for Peace and Justice

Works

• Call Her No One, Craft Literary
• To Have and To Hold The Hopkins Review, 2026 Spring Issue.
• Telepathy Channel Magazine.
• The Grit Born The Dark Magazine.
• The Valley of Memories, Afreecan Reads.
• The Tribute, YNaija, 2016.
• The Grandpa Whose Head was not Correct, great weather for Media.
• 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 Archived 2023-02-07 at the Wayback Machine, 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.
• The Unearthing 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 Archived 2023-02-05 at the Wayback Machine, 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 Archived 2020-11-23 at the Wayback Machine
• Olakunle Ologunro in conversation with Frances Ogamba^{[permanent dead link]}
• Open Country Mag Hosts Lolwe and Doek! Moderated by Frances Ogamba
• ‘Iberibe and Ogadinma: Women in Nigerian Fiction anchored by Frances Ogamba