A loud, proud home for everything so-called vernacular — fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, memoirs, letters and more. We don’t just teach the language — we live it. Reviving culture, reshaping language, one word, a step at a time.

Based in Uganda, Enjoy it Vernacular is a quarterly magazine celebrating the overlooked, the silent, the humble, and the oddly delightful—things in languages you might call vernacular. This publication is where we explore culture, liberty, identity, design, memory, and the everyday —one curious story at a time.

This is a growing movement to revive, remix, and revel in the richness of Runyankore, Luganda, Swahili—and every other mother tongue colonialism tried to silence.

Enjoy it Vernacular Magazine accepts also English submissions as long as the content thereof breathes anything someone might call vernacular—the vernacular side of life.

Submissions in Runyankore, Luganda, Swahili —with or without translation

If it’s rooted, rebellious, and real—we’re here for it. We are here with it!

So whether you’re writing/reading from the plains of Nkore, the hills of Kigezi, the shores of Victoria or the heart of any continent—welcome. No colonial filters. No language shame. Just vernacular.

This isn’t a language lesson. It’s a revival.

Where Language is Home.

We welcome work from marginalized and overlooked voices — including BIPOC, LGBTQ, disabled, rural, and working-class writers. But we publish stories rooted in human culture, language, and lived tradition. If your work reflects that — in any language, from any walk of life — we want to read it. 

NOTE: What matters to us is voice, not identity. That said, our focus is on stories grounded in cultural, linguistic, and community-based traditions. We do not publish content centered on sexuality, gender identity, or related themes. Vernacular life is our lens — rooted, human, and shared.

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