Hotel Chatter | Leila Aboulela
Dahlia and Farah sat at a table which overlooked the garden. Their placemats had pictures of zebras and paper napkins in leopard prints. There was no one else in the…
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Traversing Cultures, Languages, and Islamic Spirituality: A Conversation with Leila Aboulela
Leila Aboulela is the author of five novels, Bird Summons, The Translator, a New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year; The Kindness of Enemies, Minaret, and Lyrics Alley,…
Editorial: Back to the Roots
“Root” is a word that easily spawns tributaries of meanings, leaning towards the literal and figurative. Ancestry, family, and history are just some of the ready synonyms of root. But…
Reading Shallow Tales II Anthology Download
Click HERE to download the Reading Shallow Tales II anthology. Cover art design by Peter Ogunjinrin
The Shallow Tales Review Holds Second Commemorative Literary Reading
To celebrate its second year of standard issue publication, The Shallow Tales Review is bringing together African literary writers, publishers, critics, scholars and academics, to read and speak at this…
Issue 37 | January 2022
MEET THE TEAM CREDITS EDITORIAL: The Age of Divergence INTERVIEW Fictionalising History and Home: A Conversation with Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike FICTION The Story is an Egg, or Five Fragments Of…
Meet the Team
FOUNDING EDITOR Nzube Nlebedim FICTION EDITOR Nzube Nlebedim NONFICTION EDITOR Orji Victor Ebubechukwu ART & PHOTOGRAPHY Adeoluwa Olatunji GRAPHICS AND DESIGN The Shallow Tales Media Fortrex Studios
Gratification, & Other Poems
Gratification The sky folds itself into darkness slowly a body receding into the fringes of a vignetted picture & two dogs play at love in the dying light the…
A Star for the Sleeping Sky, & A Rehearsal of Happy Minutes
A Star for the Sleeping Sky The morning sky, an unfinished artwork, has a fury of white across its country blues. Early birds on lintels of twin buildings, exchanging…