about us
Pepper Coast Lit magazine seeks to give attention to brave new voices from Liberia and outside of Liberia. We are on the hunt for poetry and prose from around the world, cutting across any/and every theme and/or style. We are currently accepting submissions to be reviewed for possible publication. Please read our Submission Guidelines page carefully before submitting work. Please check out our previous issues.
We are the coverer of the Abu Sherif Poetry Prize for Liberian writers and also the Kofi Awoonor Poetry Prize.
For any questions, please email [email protected]
We are the coverer of the Abu Sherif Poetry Prize for Liberian writers and also the Kofi Awoonor Poetry Prize.
For any questions, please email [email protected]
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co-founder
Jeremy Teddy Karn is a Liberian poet and an MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (University of Iowa). His chapbook, Miryam Magdalit, was selected for the New-Generation African Poets 2021 (African Poetry Book Fund). His poems have appeared in Lolwe, Poetry Wales, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Adroit Journal, Penn Review, Trampset and elsewhere. His website is jeremyteddykarn.com |
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co-founder
Ayouba Toure is a young Liberian poet and a good worshipper of music, sports, and arts. His works have been published in Lolwe, African Writer, Praxis Magazine, Ngiga Review, Afritondo, Odd Magazine, and elsewhere. |
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poetry editor
Jakky Bankong-Obi is a media consultant and poet living and writing from Abuja, Nigeria. Her chapbook What Still Yields was chosen by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani for publication in the New-Generation African Poets box sets, by Akashic Books and APBF (Spring/Summer 2022). Jakky has a BSc. in International Relations and is Co-Editor at Ice Floe Press. Her work is forthcoming in London Grip, The Kalahari Review, Reliquiae Journal (Corbel Stone Press), Pipewrench Magazine, Hobart Pulp, Gutter Magazine, The Poetry Review, Pidgeonholes and Memento: An Anthology of Contemporary Nigerian Poetry, etc. Jakky is on twitter as @jakkybeefive. |
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editor at large: Abu Sherif II Chapbook Series
Korpo M. Selay is a Liberian writer whose pen name is Dawn. She is a writer for the Flying Dutchman Newspaper at her school in Maastricht, The Netherlands, and has volunteered with several NGOs. She is passionate about sustainable change and believes that writing is not only an art form but can be used to achieve such a change. |
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submissions manager
Aminata Talawally is an emerging writer. She is one of the Co-authors of the anthology, Speaking Truth to Power published by the International Human Rights Art Festival in New York, NY, and an author of the short story titled Breathless at the Alter published in STRIPES LITERARY MAGAZINE Issue 3: Volume 1 |
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graphic/website manager
Pamilerin Jacob is a Nigerian poet whose poems have appeared in Barren Magazine, Agbowó, Palette Poetry, IceFloe Press & elsewhere. He is a member of The UnSerious Collective, Founding Editor of EREMITE POETRY, staff at WildPinePoetry, Olumo Review & a mentor in the SprinNG Fellowship. Author of the chapbook, Gospels of Depression, & two others; he is the Curator of PoetryColumn-NND, a poetry column in Nigerian NewsDirect, a national newspaper. |
