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Mamadou Diallo Needs Funding for the English Translation of His...
The Senegalese writer and contributing editor for Chimurenga, Mamadou Diallo, recently scored a collaboration with Binyavanga Wainaina. His memoir-cum-biography, What a Friend Told Me, is co-written...
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Event: Aminatta Forna and Salman Rushdie in Conversation
Aminatta Forna will be in conversation with the Booker Prize winner, Salman Rushdie, to discuss his latest novel, The Golden House. The event is organised by Politics and Prose bookstore in...
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Opportunity for African Writers | Enter for the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story...
The 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is open for entries. An initiative of Commonwealth Writers, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize is “for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000 –...
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The Short Story Is Dead, Long Live the Short Story! Announces Longlist
The longlist for The Short Story is Dead, Long Live the Short Story! has been announced. The prize is organised by Black Letter Media, a full service print and digital publishing and bookselling...
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Wole Talabi’s Compilation of 654 Works of African Speculative Fiction Should...
The announcement of the inaugural Nommo Awards shortlists, an initiative of the African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS) to honour works of speculative fiction, was received with excitement. It shed...
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Jennifer Makumbi Talks Homosexuality, Idi Amin and Islam in Uganda, and Why...
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi recently had a banging interview with The Los Angeles Review of Books. Her novel Kintu, which won the Kwani? Manuscript Project Award in 2014 and was longlisted for the 2016...
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14: Statement from the Nigerian LGBTQ Literary Collective
Back in January, we published We Are Flowers, the debut anthology of writing and visual art by the Nigerian LGBTQ literary collective, 14, which took its name from the 14-year jail term prescribed by...
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The 2017 Ake Arts and Book Festival Is Almost Here
The 2017 Ake Arts and Book Festival is here. Founded in 2013 by Lola Shoneyin, Orange Prize-longlisted author of The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives and director of Book Buzz Foundation, the Ake...
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The 2017 Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award Longlist
The Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award, a South African prize, has announced its 2017 longlist, and it comprises 63 poets. The award is an initiative of The Jacana Literary Foundation (JLF) and...
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Opportunity for Literary Activists | Apply for The Other Foundation Grant
The Other Foundation has called for applications for grants from “any individual or organization in thirteen eligible southern African countries, for work that addresses discrimination against lesbian...
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Opportunity for Nigerian Football Fans | Enter for Goal.com’s #WritingGamesNG
The Nigerian edition of football’s leading Website, Goal.com Nigeria, is currently accepting essay submissions for its #WritingGamesNG competition. Organised in partnership with the University of...
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CODE’s Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature Unveils 2017 All-Stars...
CODE has announced the shortlist for its All-Stars Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature. Unlike its previous editions, this one considered “all of the first prize winners of CODE’s Burt Award...
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How Edwige-Renée Dro’s Abidjan Lit Collective Is Driving Literary Activism in...
Last month, Africa39 author Edwige-Renée Dro was interviewed by 2014 Caine Prize finalist and The Johannesburg Review contributing editor Efemia Chela. They discussed the Abidjan Lit collective and...
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Booker Prize Winning Publisher, Oneworld, Picks Jennifer Makumbi’s Kintu for...
Oneworld, publishers of the 2015 and 2016 winners of the Booker Prize—Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings and Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, respectively—have picked up the UK rights to...
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Opportunity for Nigerian Poets | Submit to PIN’s September Poetry Challenge
Poets in Nigeria (PIN) has made a call for submissions for the September edition of its 10-Day Poetry Challenge. The monthly contest is “geared towards stimulating consistent and spontaneous...
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Petina Gappah Talks Her Writing Career, Law, and Zimbabwean Music, Languages...
A little while back, Petina Gappah, who was recently named a judge for the 2018 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, had a conversation with Bongani Kona, 2016 Caine Prize finalist and Contributing...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 25 Most Talked-About Moments of Her Career
It’s a bit surprising that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will be 40 tomorrow, 15 September. Surprising because we’ve known her from when she was 25, and in the 15 years since, it didn’t concretely occur to...
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Helen Oyeyemi Shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award
Helen Oyeyemi has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. Her story, “If a Book Is Locked There’s Probably a Good Reason for That, Don’t You Think?,” sees its protagonist arrive an...
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The Graywolf Press Africa Prize Launches with Igoni A. Barrett as Judge
A new award just dropped: the Graywolf Press Africa Prize, for “a first novel manuscript by an African author primarily residing in Africa.” The inaugural prize will be judged by Igoni A. Barrett,...
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Opportunity for All Writers | Submit to Vanguard Literary Services’ HIV/AIDS...
To mark the 2017 World HIV/AIDS Day on December 1, Vanguard Literary Services, a bookselling company in Nigeria, has called for entries for an anthology of “contemporary short stories and poems that...
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