Judges 2023 – Winter

Mustapha Enesi

Mustapha Enesi is Litro Magazine’s digital editor and strategist. He is a short story writer whose work explores grief, longing, sexuality and acceptance. He has won the 2021 K&L Prize for African Literature and the 2021 Awele Creative Trust Award. He was a finalist for the 2021 Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize and the 2021 Arthur Flowers Flash Fiction Prize. One of his flash fiction pieces has been selected to appear in the 2022 Best Small Fictions anthology.

He has also been nominated for Best of the Net for his flash fiction piece published in Milk Candy review. His work is forthcoming in Transition Magazine and some has appeared in Litro Magazine, The Republic, Isele Magazine, Peatsmoke Journal, The Maine Review and The Story Tree Challenge Maiden Anthology among others. He is Ebira and he writes from Lagos.

Camilla Grudova

Camilla Grudova is the author of The Doll’s Alphabet, a collection of stories Fitzcarraldo Editions. 

She is also the author of Children of Paradise, published by Atlantic Books in 2022. Originally from Toronto she lives in Scotland. Camilla Grudova lives in Edinburgh. Her fiction has appeared in The White Review and Granta.