Their Voices Their Stories

Edited by Julie Wakeman-Linn. A short story collection amplifying women’s voices from across Africa. Julie Wakeman-Linn edits the Potomac Review and teaches at Montgomery College in Washington DC. Her novel Chasing the Leopard; Finding the Lion was a finalist for Barbara Kingsolver’s Bellwether Prize for Literature for Social Change in 2008. The collection showcases short fiction that brings forward lived experience, personal struggle, and the textures of contemporary African women’s lives, building on Wakeman-Linn’s work at the intersection of American literary editing and African storytelling. For young adult readers, students of contemporary African literature in English, and readers of global women-centred fiction. Editor’s website linked in source: juliewakemanlinn.com. Internationally distributed by African Books Collective.