Life Itself

By Sharon Layle

You crave darkness so much, African?

By Ray Mwareya

Bound by chains 2

By Khulekani

Baby Doll

By Alix

The Absent Guard

By Esperance Mukiza

The Absent Guard

By Esperance Mukiza

A UBA`s Valentine`s Part 2

By Tendai K Saungweme

From Grass To Grace

By Amparo

The Land Became Barren

By Stephen Pech Gai

Solving the human conflict, Our purpose.

By Daryl Khanda

If Only

By Tariro Nyarirangwe

Another colour

By Hasina Raoufi

THE PLACE HOLDER

By ATIZUYO CAROLINE

Bound by chains 1

By Khulekani

Nightmare Life

By Comfort Brenda

The Bare Minimum

By Moseka Phiona

Devure Range

By carter mavhiza

Aida’s Dreams

By Atefa

The dark room of the mind

By Sara Sarwari

Sekuru Peter

By Nyasha Bhobo

Overcoming Adversity: A Rise from Poverty

By Asiimwe Benita

Abducted from the Land of Birth

By Stephen Pech Gai

Falling off the cliff : Part 2

By Ruvimbo Makuvaro

What Is a Home?

By Fareshta Amiri

The Two Tools

By Bondo Dieudonne

SOUR MEDITATIONS

By Elvis Mushonga

Let freedom ring

By Jeanne Muhimundu

The Essence of Reading

By Sadock Mahuku

SOUR MEDITATIONS

By Elvis Mushonga

Zororo/ Rest

By Ashley Simango

Diary of a Queer Kid, “The Escape”

By Ashley Simango

Tawanda Discovers Stoicism

By Ashley Dube

Not My Choice

By The Literature Doctor

I pray for my daughter

By Nifa Loysha

The rude awakening

By Ashley Simango

My Dreams are Dreaded

By Nifa Loysha

Destiny, the gravity of life

By Ashley Simango

“We were in distress” from the poetry book “We will Fly higher”

By Parwana Amiri

“We were in distress” from the poetry book “We will Fly higher”

By Parwana Amiri

A breath of Death

By Jean Le Divin Tshimankinda

We live in the future

By Tariro Nyarirangwe

The plague of Africa

By Daryl Khanda

Black man 1, Black man 2

By Ray Mwareya

Not My Choice

By The Literature Doctor

Christmas and New Year in Tongogara

By Stephen Pech Gai

The Absent Guard

By Esperance Mukiza

The Woman in the Mirror

By Negar

The Absent Guard

By Esperance Mukiza

Mutoriro

By Tsitsi Bhobo

The Bottoms

By Frank Kensaku Saragosa

I WALKED PAST THE CAROLINAS

By Ray Mwareya

The Haughty Waitress

By Manuel Ndagije

The Love Entanglement

By Shumy

Memo To My 13 Year Old self

By Shumy

The Darkness Giant

By Mozhgan Mahjoob

The Monkey Buyers

By Zimkhite Mbulawa

Heri Village in shock

By Trust Bvaranga

New year new beginnings?

By Daryl Khanda

THE PLACE HOLDER

By ATIZUYO CAROLINE

Is there ever an easy way? The beginning of a journey of a thousand miles (part one)

By Ruvimbo Makuvaro

My White Dystopia

By Alix

Are we masters of our fate?

By Tariro Nyarirangwe

Without a Father, Part I

By Hadasha Williams

My Best Friend’s Betrayal, Part 2

By Marion Williams Akena

A Stranger’s Kiss

By Letasi Eva

No Work in Sex Parlors

By Ray Mwareya

Tree of War

By Amparo

The Free World

By Espoir

I want you to have the courage to want more

By Alix

Christmas and New Year in Tongogara

By Stephen Pech Gai

Gorwai, the Memories of Childhood

By Stephen Pech Gai

While Violence endangers my gender

By Jeanne Muhimundu

I Am an African Child

By Jeanne Muhimundu

My Routines, Her Dreams

By Nahid Rauf

Finding Benedict

By Comfort Brenda

A UBA’s Valentine’s Day: Part I

By Tendai K Saungweme

An African Mother-Daughter Relationship

By Moseka Phiona

I like this Thief.

By Winile Ximba

Inflation-poem

By Deogracious Kalima

Don’t bring Big money

By Nyasha Bhobo

Shhh… Grandfather’s house isn’t safe.

By Mina

Lovers

By AdolPoet

Cause of death

By Ray Mwareya

I DID IT✊🏼

By Kesiya Stamili Ramazani

Mother for 24 Hours

By Moseka Phiona

All That Matters

By Didier Samir

Holding on

By Didier Samir

Hurt

By Didier Samir

Drops of sorrow

By Didier Samir

Mirror on the wall

By Didier Samir

The Narrow Escape

By Didier Samir

Woman, Life, Freedom

By Hamoun

Why were you laughing when you shot me?

By Nadiya the elf

‘The Beta people’ -Miniature yet dynamic

By Tendai K Saungweme

Medical School in Zimbabwe: A Bleak Island of Gold?

By Tendai K Saungweme

The Mighty River Nile

By Stephen Pech Gai

I am Alive

By Alix

I couldn’t yet reach the oranges

By Somayeh

Why Not?

By Zhara

The unBothered Youth

By Nicole Kundai Duma

Fatty fatty mama – I jumped

By Tsitsi Bhobo

The Viper Tales (I) Randy-Riddle Feud

By Ashley Dube

A #hashtag drives murderous nativist militias in South Africa.

By Nyasha Bhobo

Little did i know

By Tunza

Why do you think I’m from India?

By Ray Mwareya

I Am an African Child

By Jeanne Muhimundu

After the Wedding

By Fariba Amiri

My Hug Is Your Nest

By Fareshta Amiri

A Journey Back Home

By Stephen Pech Gai

Shaping A Fighter

By Drew Curran

Therapy on The Baltic Sea

By Drew Curran

Pyramid of the Sun

By Karyn O'Beirne

A Lonely Woman

By Nuray Yerebakan

From Love to Death, my Unforgettable Brother

By Mamadou Amirou Sall

Dhinda the Bus

By Nolleen Mhonda

A cold day in June🌥

By Kesiya Stamili Ramazani

This is just a short story that I’m trying to pass.

By Mirabel

Sight of Bliss

By Alix

A proud African

By Tunza

The Difficulties of Homelessness in Johannesburg

By Kimberly Mutandiro

Best blood veins in Boston.

By Ray Mwareya

The Quarantine of Death

By Stephen Pech Gai

My Vision

By Kiiza Mohamed Minani

Today

By Kiiza Mohamed Minani

Blood of an innocent boy

By Kiiza Mohamed Minani

HOME

By Kiiza Mohamed Minani

I went to the woods

By Ashley Simango

A scary teenage life

By Nadiya the elf

Hounding

By Hilda Orama

This House is for Cyclones

By Stephen Pech Gai

‘Lol—kkk—ha ha’, the dividing laugh of us Africans

By Nyasha Bhobo

A rain drop becomes a blessing in a decade

By Jeanne Muhimundu

I’ll write my life story

By nadiya the elf

As a woman in a male mechanic yard

By Tsitsi Bhobo

Hopeful

By Judith Fetterley

Out of True

By Judith Fetterley

Master Class

By Judith Fetterley

I can’t drive to America, but hell, I’ll write of it!

By Nollen Mhondera

Our Forever Is Scary

By Alix

My Homeland

By Nahid Rauf

The Front Door Was Wide Open

By Kesiya Stamili Ramazani

The Goats of Tongogara

By Stephen Pech Gai

Writing as a so-called ‘illegal miner’.

By Simba Chinhuru

Chapter 2: Becoming Normal Again

By Emmanuel Ndayisaba

Twist of Loyalty

By Sabina Wakilongo

Bad Company in a Good Friendship

By Matendo Samuel

Childhood Reminiscences

By Sadock Mahuku

Shadows

By Mugisha

Unconditional Love Chapter 2

By Triphonia Julius

The Wedding Day

By Chris Benoit

Ode to My Beloved Snack

By Innocent

An Unforgettable Sunday

By Muletere Innocent

True Love in My Life

By Angelique Kwizera

A Letter to My Crush

By Tuyishime Jeanpierre

The first reflection on my existence

By Barhalibirhu Nfundiko Honore

The Fate of Laziness

By Clementine Charly

Late Arrival at the Beauty Salon

By Willy Mufungizi Akonkwa

The Essence of Reading

By Sadock Mahuku

Airplane, carry me to my uncle

By Muli

The Hollow File with Hidden Data

By Emmanuel N.D.

The Science Fiction that Facilitated the Technology of the Cell Phone

By Sadock Mahuku

Unconditional Love

By Triphonia Julius

The Bicycle Taxi Man

By Habibi

The Desire for a Promising Life

By Muhango Innocent Amani

 Fight in the Church

By Muli

Too Late To Change

By Etho Wakilongo

Willy in Dzaleka Refugee Camp, Malawi

By Willy Mufungizi Akonkwa

The Orphan’s Cry

By Theogene Habimana

No Education No Good Life

By Angelique Kwizera

Life at the Borehole

By Muli

For the Love of Chapati!

By Emmanuel Ushindi

My First Kiss

By Triphonia Julius

The Irresponsible Room

By Ongwa Wakilongo

A day of war with no bullets.

By Habibi

The Gold in Malawi’s Soils

By Triphonia Julius

Facing Today, Looking Forward to Tomorrow

By Emmanuel

We left Coffee, Son.

By Simba Chinhuru

I am writing to you from Zimbabwe via ‘poached’ cellular signals, WhatsApp, and paper.

By Progress Mwareya

Carrying On One Man’s Dream

By Drew Curran

Devaluating Money is Killing People With Poverty

By Joseline

Wrong Choices During Adolescent

By Angelique

My Best Friend Became a Prisoner

By Tuyishime Jeanpierre

My First Car Attempt

By Gerrard Hakizimana

The Betrayal

By Baraka Damien

To be a thirty year-old girl, but still single

By Joseline Mushimiyimana

The Last One Became The First One

By Jacque Tuyisenge

Hopeless Household

By Gerrard Hakizimana

My Influential Person

By Solange Niyobuhungiro

A letter to my mother

By Seraphine Nimbona

The Little Kylian Mbappe

By Jeanpierre Tuyishime

An Arrogant Headmaster

By Chris Benoit

The Protagonist

By Espoir

The Uneducation of Me

By Deogracious Kalima

The Mysterious Painting

By Mozhgan Mahjoob

The Snowman

By Mozhgan Mahjoob

Under the Sky Beneath the Moon

By Mozhgan Mahjoob

The Spider’s Web

By Mozhgan Mahjoob

Wonders Will Never Cease

By Mozhgan Mahjoob

Life in the Cage

By Mozhgan Mahjoob

No one buys the flowers

By Mozhgan Mahjoob

The Pink Shoes

By Mozhgan (Ocean) Mahjoob

The Girl in the Dream Land

By Mozhgan (Ocean) Mahjoob

The Last Wish

By Mozhgan (Ocean) Mahjoob

Are we safe?

By Naimana Faridah

How Refugee Women and Girls Lead: Part 3

By Naimana Faridah

I belong to the desert

By Nyachut Nek

Q and A

By Sana Nassari

The New Me

By Sana Nassari

Dum Dum

By Sana Nassari

your name will be a sign

By nadiya the elf

If it were you

By Mirabel

Who will remember me?

By Azim Salimy

Contentment

By Joy

The Power of Writing

By Karima Qias

The Plaza Girls Zine

By Chloe Ruthven

Like I’m born to No Bond.

By Stephen Pech Gai

The Hidden Treasurer

By Stephen Pech Gai

Rediscovering Asexuality

By Alix

Vilakazi Street, Soweto

By Nyasha Bhobo

Dear U.S. editors, not every story must have an “American angle”

By Audrey Simango

Earth is going, we are about to leave!

By Stephen Pech Gai

Always in mind: Was God obligated?

By Mamadou Amirou Sall

California Dream

By Drew Curran

Our House Community

By Niels Bekkema

Hope Cafe Athens

By Niels Bekkema

In-Sight Collaborative

By Niels Bekkema

Belvédère, Verhalenhuis Rotterdam

By Niels Bekkema

Belly Zine

By Niels Bekkema

Canny Little Library

By Niels Bekkema

Migrant Experience on Manus and Nauru

By Moones Mansoubi

Community Refugee Welcome Centre

By Niels Bekkema

Free99Fridge

By Carmen Fong

Goat Literature: A Future PoL

By Matthew Stadler

Reading as Poaching

By Michel de Certeau

Building a Free Volunteer Library

By Maurice Specht

Do tears water the Sahara desert?

By Stephen Pech Gai

Reading Queer Comics in Secret

By Shawn Van Sluys

The Body Speaks: “Wonderland”

By Erkan Özgen

Street boy

By Ashraf Mbonimpa

The Arc-weld Rainbow

By Doreen Nzeyimana

Dilemma

By Ashraf Mbonimpa

I am culture, I am beautiful

By Ashraf Mbonimpa

Shame

By Doreen Nzeyimana

Dear Lord

By Doreen Nzeyimana

Beaten for Love

By Derike Ingabire

The Clash

By Ashraf Mbonimpa

Broken Emotions

By Doreen Nzeyimana

A refugee dream

By Ashraf Mbonimpa

Thunderstorms

By Derike Ingabire

Cold Days

By Derike Ingabire

How would you feel?

By Doreen Nzeyimana

The Pain

By Doreen Nzeyimana

Speak Up!

By Derike Ingabire

How Refugee Women and Girls Lead: Part 2

By Faridah Naimana

How Refugee Women and Girls Lead: Part 1

By Faridah Naimana

The things they have never told us

By silent_writer

Filling A Warriors Shaped Hole

By Ashley Dube

Look, the Great Quitting is risky for us African writers.

By Nyasha Bhobo

Happiness After Sadness

By Alicy Munde

The Diamond Inside You

By Sara Sarwari

My experience as a foreigner writing in South Africa

By Kudakwashe Magezi

Why as a Black Journalist, I Quote White Experts Mostly

By Audrey Simango

My Mother’s Memory

By Fareshta Amiri

Striver

By Fariba Amiri

One step into a larger world

By Drew Curran

Literacy, Imaginary Politics, and Children

By Matthew Stadler

Being a South Sudanese girl

By Nyachut Nek

I left Gaza but Gaza refuses to leave me

By Mohammed Moussa

Gaza Poets Society

By Niels Bekkema

Publication Studio São Paulo (BR)

By Niels Bekkema

Swansea Zine Fest

By Niels Bekkema

Survivors Library

By Niels Bekkema

The Cuisine Lab

By William Goat

The People’s Backpack

By Niels Bekkema

Underground Writing

By Niels Bekkema

Anonymous Report of Palestinian Prisoner in Israel

By Anonymous

Publication Studio Minneapolis (MN)

Channel Rescue

By Niels Bekkema

High Country News

By Niels Bekkema

Six Contracting Theses on Literature

By Anna Poletti

Undanced Dances

The Power of Writing

By Karima Qias

Truth and silence

By Karima Qias

I am the stranger of this city

By Parwana Amiri

Upside Down

By Parwana Amiri

My Best Friend’s Betrayal Part 3: Fire in that House

By Marion Williams Akena

He left me feeling like a failure

By Akello Patricia

My greed for money

By Ocaya Jordan kilama

Without a Father: Part 2

By Hadasha Williams

The African way of showing love

By Achiro Jackline

Jemima

By Acaa Gladys

My Parents’ Separation

By Aber Lucy

I got pregnant for my boss’s husband

By Achiro Jackline

How I Let My Dream Die

By achiro jackine

My Hateful Sister

By Atim Cissy

My Best Friend’s Betrayal

By Marion Williams Akena

Blood Sisters

By Hadasha Williams

The feeling of letting go

By Achiro Jackline

The Accident That I Survived

By Adie Irene

The Iron Lady

By Marion Williams Akena

Good Girl Gone Bad

By Hadasha Williams

Painful Love

By Marion Williams Akena

Caged Mind

By Moseka Phiona

I left but never forgotten home

By AdolPoet

Zine Making on the Move

By Sidd Joag

Landscapes of Fear

By Kip Vader

Border Violence Monitoring Network

By Kip Vader

Eileen Myles: Narrative Astronaut

By The Old Goat

Feminist Library

By Kip Vader

Play for Progress

By Niels Bekkema

Shy Bairns

By Niels Bekkema

Queer Zine Library

By Niels Bekkema

Create Without Borders

By Niels Bekkema

School of the Damned

By Niels Bekkema

Hazelnut Grove Encampment Library

By Niels Bekkema

Street Roots Portland

By Niels Bekkema

Word Is Bond

By Niels Bekema

Art and Judgement in NL

By Niels Bekkema

Between Borders Amsterdam

By Niels Bekkema

Mezrab, house of stories

By Niels Bekkema

Six Contracting Theses on Literature

By Anna Poletti

The Public School Los Angeles

By Niels Bekkema

Nosebleed on Blacktop

By Harry Gamboa jr.

Refugee Info Bus

By Niels Bekkema

Radio Calais

By Niels Bekkema

Conversations From Calais

By Niels Bekkema

Voices Without Borders

By Niels Bekkema

The David Show (Part I)

By David Brazil

Book Shop Rosa

By Matthew Stadler

The Rise and Future of a Queer Polity of Literature in Six Scenes

By Michael Bronski

Anti-Eviction Map

By Niels Bekkema

Kathy Acker Published by Direct Mail

By Jason McBride

Preface to If They Come in the Morning

By Angela Y. Davis and Bettina Aptheker

If They Come in the Morning: Writing from Prison with Angela Davis

By Bettina Aptheker

Portable Polis, Berlin, Germany

By Fred Dewey

SO36, Berlin, Germany

Books, People, Places

“Reading 1984 [in prison] was a big mistake…”

By Marta Baussels

Prison Books in the Time of Refugees

By Matthew Stadler

Wheel Map

By Matthew Stadler

Reading as Poaching (from The Practice of Everyday Life)

By Michel de Certeau

Budel Camera Obscura

By The Old Goat

Summary Justice: A German Divorce

By Sybille Bedford

Drawn Literature: Graphic Novels and Hannah Arendt’s Hair

By Ken Krimstein

Exploring the Polity of Comics: Queer Kinship in Gay Comix

By Shawn van Sluys

Reading and Writing (from The Unpunished Vice)

By Edmund White

The Video Kids

By Oonagh Bell

What if this is literature?

By Chloe Ruthven

Collectively Imagining a More Just World

By Anne Focke

The Secret Library of Darayya

By Delphine Minoui

Words Lost and Found

By Ben Shields

Out on the Shelf: Queer Library & Resource Centre

By CC Walker

Vocamus Writers Community

By CC Walker

Growing Up Among the People of the Book

By Ben Shields

Theatre Day Productions

By Niels Bekkema

Service Club

By Armand Urza

Edouard Louis: Spit, Not Flowers

By thegoatpol@outlook.com

Publication Studio Pearl River Delta (HK)

Hope In Kansas

By The Old Goat

Internet Archive

By The Old Goat

Word Is Bond

By Niels Bekema

Lunch Poems

By The Old Goat

Are You Syrious?

By Niels Bekkema

The New Humanitarian

By The Old Goat

Writing Between Languages

By The Goat Wanders

Zwaag Prison (NL) “Potatoes or Rice?”

By The Old Goat

Zine Library

What Breaks

By Noor Hindi

Well-Read Black Girl

Voices Without Borders

By Niels Bekkema

Building the Parallel Polis

By Anne Focke

Undanced Dances

Portable Polis, Berlin, Germany

By Fred Dewey

The Civil Fleet

By Niels Bekkema

The Zines of Terezín

By Matthew Stadler

IND hearings cause asylum children unnecessary stress

By Casper van der Veen

Asylum Interviews in NL

By Ralph Severijns

Tenacious Zine

Teaching Children to Write

By Robert Glück

Six Contracting Theses on Literature

By Anna Poletti

Wood Sprites

By Ahmet Altan

The Writer’s Paradox

By Ahmet Altan

Finding a Polity in Prison Writing

By Duygy Erbil

Silivri Prison (TR)

By Simon(e) van Saarloos

Silenced

School Bus Project

Samir Mansour’s Bookshop

By Mohammed Moussa

Reading Zoos in the Age of the Anthropocene

By Niels Bekkema

Queer Zine Library

By Niels Bekkema

Publicaton Studio Vancouver (BC)

By Niels Bekkema

Publication Studio San Francisco (CA)

Publication Studio Minneapolis (MN)

Publication Studio Hudson (NY)

Publication Studio Guelph (ON)

Publication Studio Glasgow (UK)

Publication Studio Edmonton (AB)

By Niels Bekkema

Project Armonia

Prison Radio

Partisan Collective

By Niels Bekkema

PM Press

By Niels Bekkema

Over Here Zine Fest

By Niels Bekkema

Our House Community

By Niels Bekkema

Oakland Summer School

By Niels Bekkema

Good News for African Writers

By Audrey Simango

Reading and Writing on WhatsApp

By Nyasha Bhobo

Nomadic Archivists Project

By Niels Bekkema

No Kids In Prison

Mutual Aid Books

What if this is literature?

By Parwana Amiri

Escaping Moria Camp

By Karima Qias

The New Humanitarian

By The Old Goat

Metropolarity

By Niels Bekkema

Lost In Europe

Nosebleed on Blacktop

By Harry Gamboa jr.

Irrelevant Press

InfoMigrants

Abolish Frontex

By Matthew Stadler

I Am Here

The Everyday Voices of Migrants

By Léa Coffineau

Dutch Courts Rule on Queer Refugees

By Lotte Wolff

Hazelnut Grove Encampment Library

By Niels Bekkema

Govan Community Project

Fan Fiction is a Polity of Literature

By Juli Parrish

Estelitas Library

Embros Theatre

EBABZ Digital Zine Library

Writing Workshops in Emergency Shelters

By Alison Turner

DC’s Blog is a Lit Community

By Jason McBride

Community Webs

By Niels Bekkema

Brushfire Press

Brighton Zine Network

Books, People, Places

Black Lodge Press

By Niels Bekkema

Belly Zine

By Niels Bekkema

Bellingcat’s Online Investigation Toolkit

Bellingcat

Zines from a Revolution

By Michael Bronski