Jamil Badi

Jamil Badi is a writer living on unceded Wurundjeri land specialising in African oral storytelling and folklore. His work has appeared in Island online, Voiceworks, Babyteeth Journal’s Never Heard of Them Emerging Writer’s anthology and the South Coast Writers Centre Uncommon Words anthology. He has also been commended for the 2023 Wilbur & Niso Smith Author of Tomorrow Adventure Writing Prize.

Articles by Jamil Badi:

11 October 2024 · Friday Fiction

How we know the forest’s name

Jamil Badi

The clouds lean upon the night with threat of a storm but I do not let them break. Yes, I am thirsty for rain, my barked fingers pruned a dry and brittle grey, but I make the clouds wait. A pair of them, boy and girl, he tracing his fingers along my bones, she kicking the leaves of my dead hair. I tell the storm to wait, for I can sense a story in these two, and there is no better thing to quench the throat than story.