Shanice Ndlovu
Shanice Ndlovu is an Epic Fantasy writer. A few of her short stories can be found in her first collection, The pride of noonlay, published by Modjaji Books (2020), and in The Ishmael Tree (2022). She was crowned Africa’s Ultimate Storyteller by Hadithi Ya Africa in the same year. Ndlovu started and runs a poetry podcast called The Poedcast. She has been nominated for the NOMMO Speculative Fiction Awards.
Short.Sharp.Stories anthology, Power: interview with Shanice Ndlovu, author of "When I think of my death"
2025-10-22"There is a freedom in speculative fiction that doesn’t exist in any other genre – anything can happen. That kind of freedom, once tasted, is addictive. And that is what fantasy has provided me – a place to articulate these stories fully. This particular story begins with a dream, possibly the oldest of all that is speculative."
Short.Sharp.Stories anthology Fluid: interview with Shanice Ndlovu, author of "Of somo seeds"
2023-07-10"I have a rough idea in my head of where places are, but what I will find there is a discovery each time and I can know only when I put it to the page. The reader and I find things together."