We are delighted to announce Emma Dabiri as our new non-fiction editor. Emma is taking over the reins from Róisín Kiberd who has worked on our three most recent issues, including the special climate issue which we’ll publish later this month.
Emma Dabiri FRSL is an award-winning (Cannes Lion, Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage University Philosophical Society, and Praeses Elit Award) broadcaster, and the Sunday Times best-selling author of Don’t Touch My Hair, What White People Can Do Next and Disobedient Bodies. Emma was inducted into the Royal Society of Literature in 2023. She spent over a decade as a teaching fellow in the African department at SOAS University of London. In 2022 she was appointed Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies at Villanova University in PA. Emma is a Contributing Editor at ELLE UK and regular contributor across national media. Emma has presented numerous history, arts and culture series on both TV and radio including Journeys into Afrofuturism, Back in Time and Britain’s Lost Masterpieces. She is on the board of Trustees at The Hugh Lane Contemporary Art Gallery.
Emma will be reading the creative non-fiction submissions received during the current open submission round. (Closing on November 18th at 5pm.)
Looking forward to the work ahead, Emma has this to say:
I am so excited to be coming on board as the non-fiction editor at The Stinging Fly. Non-fiction has the power to change the world and I can’t think of a time—in recent memory—when the necessity of doing things differently has felt more immediate. I am particularly keen to hear from original, thought-provoking, well-informed, formally inventive, and subaltern voices. Let’s go!
Commenting on the appointment, The Stinging Fly editor Lisa McInerney has this to say:
I’m delighted that Emma has joined us as our new non-fiction editor; she’s a writer, teacher and thinker I really admire. Her approach — bold ideas in vivid language, made accessible, rousing and actionable — should excite all of us writers and readers. She brings to the table experience, warmth and wit, and I’m very much looking forward to what’s ahead.