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Sidik Fofana

Sidik Fofana received an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU and teaches public school in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in the Sewanee Review. ‘The Young Entrepreneurs of Miss Bristol’s Front Porch’ is an excerpt from his debut novel, Stories from Our Tenants Downstairs, forthcoming from Scribner in the US and Hodder in the UK in 2021.

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Fiction | Issue 150 padlock
Fiction | Issue 150 padlock

The Young Entrepreneurs of Miss Bristol’s Front Porch

Sidik Fofana

‘Every black girl on my block was waitin to get a look at Kandese when she first come for the summer. Her grandmuhva told us she hit a teacher with a ruler and got kicked out of her school in Harlem.’

Fiction by Sidik Fofana.

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