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,Claire Gor, "The Valley of Memories", The Kalihari Review, 7 August 2019. Accessed 5 December 2020. won the Koffi Addo Prize for Creative Nonfiction.Bamuturaki Musinguzi, "South Africa, Nigeria win short story awards", The East African, 23 August 2019. Accessed 5 December 2020. Her short story "Ghana Boy", centring on the relationship between a young boy and his gang leader elder brother,Clarie Gor, "Ghana Boy", The Kalahari Review, 26 July 2019. Accessed 5 December 2020. was also shortlisted for the 2019 Writivism Short Story Prize.Bamuturaki Musinguzi, "2019 Writivism Prize shortlists announced", The East African, 7 June 2019. Accessed 5 December 2020.Carl Terver, Frances Ogamba With the Sentences, Praxis Magazine, 29 June 2019. Accessed 5 December 2020. In 2020, her story "My Husband's Wife" was the English-language winner of the inaugural Kalahari Short Story Prize.Nathaniel Bivan, "Nigeria's Ogamba Frances is Kalahari Prize 2020 English winner" , Daily Trust, 6 December 2020. Accessed 6 December 2020.
Ogamba lives in Port Harcourt, where she works as a content developer.Frances Ogamba , Rewrite Reads. Accessed 5 December 2020.
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 , 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 , 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 Olakunle Ologunro in conversation with Frances Ogamba Open Country Mag Hosts Lolwe and Doek! Moderated by Frances Ogamba ‘Iberibe and Ogadinma: Women in Nigerian Fiction anchored by Frances Ogamba