Lolwe is a Pan-African literary magazine that publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography, and literary criticism. Founded in January 2020 by Troy Onyango, the magazine has a focus on amplifying the work by writers, poets, and visual artists from Africa and the Black diaspora. Through Lolwe Classes, it offers online creative writing workshop-style classes and masterclasses. Its stories have been nominated/shortlisted for various awards, including the Caine Prize for African Writing, and it makes submissions to the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry Prize. It has published over 200 writers from Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Grenada, Haiti, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Puerto Rico, USA, UK, Germany, France among others. Email: publicity@lolwe.org.
