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Opportunity for African Writers | Enter for the 2018 Etisalat Prize for...
The 2018 Etisalat Prize for Literature is open for submissions. Founded by Etisalat Nigeria in 2013, the £15,000 Etisalat Prize for Literature is the first pan-African literary prize created to honour...
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The Winners of the 2017 Nigerian Students’ Poetry Prize
The winners of the 2017 Nigerian Students’ Poetry Prize have been announced. The first, second and third prizes went to Bakre Fadil Adedamola, Ajah Henry Ekene, and Bona O. Solomon, respectively....
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Opportunity for African Writers | Submit to The Single Story Foundation Journal
The Single Story Foundation (TSSF) is currently open for submissions. The journal will be accepting poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction. In an email to Brittle Paper, their editors stated that...
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Yewande Omotoso, Nthikeng Mohlele Lead the 2017 University of Johannesburg...
The University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Writing has announced the 2017 shortlists for their Main Prize and Debut Prize. Founded in 2006, the University of Johannesburg Prize, also known...
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2017 Okike Prize for Literature: Brittle Paper Writers Win Poetry and Prose...
Two writers published by us, Shade Mary-Ann Olaoye and Jonathan Durunguma, have won the poetry and prose categories of the inaugural Okike Prize for Literature. Founded this year, the Okike Prize for...
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Nnedi Okorafor, Lauren Beukes, Sofia Samatar Named in Power List of Top...
Nnedi Okorafor, Lauren Beukes and Sofia Somatar have been listed in Entertainment Weekly‘s list of “27 Female Authors Who Rule Sci-Fi and Fantasy Now.” The list is a response to “a much-maligned...
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Opportunity for African Writers | Enter for This $20,000 Flash Fiction Prize
The Cesar Egido Serrano Foundation has announced the commencement of submissions for the 2017 edition of the intensely competitive “The Museum of Words” International Flash Fiction Competition. “The...
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Brunel University Honours Bernardine Evaristo with Award
The novelist, critic, creative writing professor and founder of the Brunel International African Poetry Prize, Bernardine Evaristo, has been honoured with the Best Small Module Award 2017 at the...
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For Just N7,000, Sunshine Bookseller Will Sell You All Six Books by...
For just N7,000, Nigeria’s Sunshine Bookseller is ready to sell you a collection of all six books by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. That would mean her three novels, Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a...
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Opportunity for African Pop Culture Writers | Submit to The Afro Vibe
There’s a new digital pop culture magazine coming to town and it is currently seeking submissions. It’s called The Afro Vibe and is owned by Expound magazine editor Wale Owoade whose beautiful poetry...
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Opportunity for Nigerian Poets | Submit to Mounting the Moon Anthology of...
The novelist and LGBTQ activist Unoma Azuah has called for submissions for a queer anthology of Nigerian poetry. The project is titled Mounting the Moon: Queer Nigerian Love Poems. Her co-curator for...
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Revolutionary New Documentary, Somebody Clap for Me, Brings to Film the Story...
A powerful new documentary, Somebody Clap For Me, has brought to film the story of protest poetry in Uganda. The documentary, which had its world premiere at the just concluded Zanzibar International...
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Eight Writers Shortlisted for Writivism’s Short Story and Koffi Addo...
Writivism has announced the shortlists for their Short Story and Koffi Addo Nonfiction Prizes. Both prizes’ longlists, released last month, named thirty-five writers in total. First awarded in 2013,...
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Bernard Matambo’s Lyrical Emigrant Story Makes Best American Essays 2017
The Zimbabwean Bernard Matambo’s lyrical emigrant nonfiction, “Working the City,” published in Transition‘s issue 121 and named in Brittle Paper‘s list of the best pieces from 2016, has been selected...
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Africa in Dialogue Publishes e-Book of Gerald Kraak Award Interviews
Gaamangwe Mogami, editor of Africa in Dialogue, has curated interviews with the twelve writers and photographers shortlisted for the 2017 Gerald Kraak Award. The interviews—with Farah Ahamed, Beyers...
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Tsitsi Dangaremgba to Teach Master Classes at Durban International Film Festival
Tsitsi Danganrembga, the renowned Zimbabwean writer and filmmaker who gave us the groundbreaking novel Nervous Conditions, will be teaching master classes at the Durban International Film Festival’s...
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Opportunity for African Writers | Enter for This £30,000 Short Story Award
Submissions have begun for the 2018 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. Founded in 2010 and run by The Society of Authors, the £30,000 award is the richest in the world for a single short story....
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EVENT: Binyavanga Wainaina to Speak at University of the Witwatersrand
Binyavanga Wainaina will be speaking at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He will be in conversation with the researcher and writer Achal Prabhala and Danai Mupotsa, who is a PhD in...
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Opportunity for African Writers | Enter for the 2018 Costa Short Story Award
The 2018 Costa Short Story Award is open for submissions. Founded in 2012 and funded by Costa Coffee, the £3,500 award recognizes a previously-unpublished short story of “up to 4,000 words by an...
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Nnedi Okorafor, Bibi Bakare-Yusuf Among TED Global 2017 Speakers
Nnedi Okorafor and Cassava Republic co-founder Bibi Bakare-Yusuf are among the speakers for the TED Global 2017 in Arusha, Tanzania. The 38-strong list also includes the lexicographer Yvonne Chioma...
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