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Sophie Alal is a Ugandan writer, lawyer, poet, journalist and cultural critic. She publishes at Deyu African, a cultural heritage initiative. She won the 2010 Beverley Nambozo Poetry Award with Making Modern Love. Her short stories have been published in the Kalahari Review, Lawino Magazine, AfricanColours and START journal. She has worked as a freelance correspondent for The EastAfrican, African Colours magazine and the Global Press Institute. She holds a law degree from Makerere University.

Published works

Short stories

• "Here are the children" inJames Woodhouse, ed. (2017). Moonscapes: short stories and poetry. Africa Writers Trust. ISBN 978-9970-28-001-8.
• "Making Modern Love" inBeverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva, ed. (2014). A Thousand Voices Rising: An anthology of contemporary African poetry. BN Poetry Foundation. ISBN 978-9970-9234-0-3.
• "Partaking "
• "Debris"

Poetry

• "The rebel fell"
• "Making modern love"

References

1. "Sophie Alal" observer.ug. Retrieved August 10, 2018.
2. "Alternative media giving space to diverse voices" acme-ug.org. Retrieved August 10, 2018.]
3. "BOOKS THEY READ: Sophie Brenda Alal" monitor.co.ug. Retrieved August 10, 2018.
4. "Sophie Alal" mediadiversified.org. Retrieved October 31, 2016.
5. "Sophie Alal" maishafilmlab.org. Retrieved August 10, 2018.]
6. "Q& A: “It’s just not enough to be a lawyer” – Sophie Alal on law and literature " africainwords.com. Retrieved August 31, 2016

• Living people
• Ugandan women short story writers
• Ugandan short story writers
• 21st-century Ugandan women writers
• Makerere University alumni
• 21st-century Ugandan poets
• Ugandan women poets
• 21st-century short story writers