A Long House is pleased to announce that  Yvonne Wabai and Sihle Ntuli have been selected as the 2025 Rajat Neogy Editorial Fellows. Wabai and Ntuli are writers and editors who have been doing literary work in Africa for some years now. We’re immensely proud that they are this year’s fellows, as they have demonstrated real interest in the literatures of Africa and the Black world and are committed to contributing their best to fostering an ecosystem that inspires, nurtures, and preserves these literatures. Through their work with A Long House—which involves editing, writing, literary curation, and collaboration with other writers, editors, and artists—they will expand the notions and aesthetics of what writing as an African and a black person is and can be. 

We are also glad to have received the kinds of applications we did. They were all impressive, and selecting our fellows was not the easiest of tasks. It really is heartening to see such an interest in editing on the continent. This gives us added motivation to continue to do the work we do, to sustain such an interest and to harness it to improve the quality and relevance of the work of African and black writers around the world. 

The Rajat Neogy Editorial Fellowship will take place over the course of a year between 2025 and early 2026. Each fellow will receive editorial education as well as support on their chapbook projects which they will undertake in their capacity as fellows with the magazine. They will also receive $1000 each and a tote bag of books. 

Please join us in welcoming:

Yvonne Wabai

Yvonne Wabai is a Kenyan writer/editor and thinker. Her work explores themes of identity, resistance, and community. Drawing inspiration from personal experiences and cultural narratives, she seeks to challenge oppressive structures by creating and nurturing spaces where marginalized and underrepresented voices can flourish. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Feminist Magazine, Haunted Words Press, Unstamatic Magazine, The Kalahari Review, and more. She is the Managing Editor at Isele Magazine.

Sihle Ntuli

Sihle Ntuli is a poet, classicist and editor from Durban, South Africa. He received his Master of Arts in Classical Civilizations from Rhodes University, where he briefly lectured Classics at the University of the Free State and the University of Johannesburg. His writing has been supported by the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Studies in South Africa and the Centre for Stories in Australia through the JIAS Fellowship & Patricia Kailis Fellowship respectively. He also served as the editor-in-chief of South Africa’s oldest literary magazine New Contrast in 2023. He is the 2024/2025 Diann Blakely National Poetry Competition Winner, a 2024 Best of the Net poetry winner and a Pushcart prize nominee. His poems have appeared in ADDA stories, Poetry Wales, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry London, and elsewhere. He is the author of two poetry chapbooks; Rumblin (uHlanga 2020) and The Nation (River Glass Books 2023) alongside two full length collections Stranger (Aerial Publishing 2015) and Zabalaza Republic (Botsotso Publishing 2023).