"I think of the story for a while, and I sit down and write it all at once"

Howard Meh-Buh Maximus in this conversation with Confidence Uwazuruike talks about getting shortlisted for the 2022 Afritondo Short Story Prize, his writing career, and his short story, Grotto. Grotto will be published in an anthology expected by Summer 2022.

Howard is a Cameroonian writer and scientist. His work has appeared in anthologies as well as literary magazines. He is a winner of the Miles Morland Scholarship 2020, Kalahari Short Story Prize (2), and a semi-finalist for the Alpines Fellowship 2019. He is an awardee of the W. Morgan and Lou Claire Rose Fellowship, currently studying for an MFA in Fiction.