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The 21 Writers Shortlisted for the 2017 Miles Morland Writing Scholarships
The 2017 Miles Morland Writing Scholarship shortlist has been announced and there are 21 writers on it. The Miles Morland Writing Scholarships, an initiative of the Miles Morland Foundation, offer a...
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Helon Habila Turns 50, Thanks Fans for Birthday Wishes
Helon Habila recently celebrated his 50th birthday, and afterwards came on Facebook to thank fans for their wishes. He wrote: Thanks for all your birthday wishes. I turned 50 today. A pioneer of the...
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Zukiswa Wanner Challenges Stereotypical Narratives in South Africa’s...
Zukiswa Wanner recently wrote an essay in South African newspaper Mail and Guardian calling out the country’s white-dominated “parochial publishing industry.” Titled “Writings on the Wall for...
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The Binti Trilogy | Read Chapter One of Nnedi Okorafor’s “The Night of the...
Tor.com has published an excerpt from Nnedi Okorafor’s The Night of the Masquerade, the third book in her Binti trilogy. Binti: The Night Masquerade will be published on January 16 by Tor.com...
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Petina Gappah Writes About the Fall of Mugabe in The New Yorker
The most encouraging news out of Africa this past week is the fall of Robert Mugabe, who had been Zimbabwe’s president for 37 years. The 93-year-old former president resigned after the Army intervened...
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The New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2017: Ayobami Adebayo, Peter Kimani...
The New York Times Book Review‘s prestigious 100 Notable Books of 2017 list has been released, and it includes Ayobami Adebayo’s novel Stay with Me, Peter Kimani’s novel Dance of the Jakaranda, and...
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Photos | Ake Festival: Day 1 | Nnedi Okorafor’s Fiction Workshop
The 2017 Ake Arts and Book Festival took place from 14-18 November 2017, at Kuto Cultural Centre, Abeokuta. It featured a workshop, concerts, visits to secondary schools, a festival of short films,...
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Joseph Conrad Is “a Literary Brother to Achebe,” Says Ngugi wa Thiong’o
In a review for The New York Times, of the American Harvard professor Maya Jasanoff’s new book The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World, which considers the life and legacy of the Polish...
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The 7 African Books Named Among The Guardian’s Best Books of 2017
The Guardian has unveiled its Best Books of 2017. Unlike The New York Times Book Review‘s 100 Notable Books of 2017 which is selected by the newspaper’s editors, The Guardian‘s list is chosen by...
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Opportunity | Apply to Be Sales and Marketing Manager at The Indigo Press
The Indigo Press, a newly established independent publisher based in London, is looking for “an ambitious Sales and Marketing Manager to establish and nourish the key relationships that will sell our...
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Zukiswa Wanner, Niq Mhlongo Receive 2018 Fellowships from Johannesburg...
South African novelists Zukiswa Wanner and Niq Mhlongo are among the 2018 Writing Fellows of the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study. All eleven 2018 Fellows will be offered a four-month writing...
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The 5 Winners of the 2017 Miles Morland Writing Scholarships
The 2017 Miles Morland Writing Scholarships have been awarded to five writers, four for fiction and one for nonfiction. While the scholarships are usually awarded to four writers—three for fiction,...
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Ainehi Edoro Joins Pulitzer Prize Novelists Dave Eggers and Paul Harding and...
Brittle Paper founder and editor Ainehi Edoro, Assistant Professor of Global Anglophone Literatures at Marquette University, USA, has joined The Bare Life Review‘s Editorial Advisory Board, where she...
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Goethe-Institut Literary Crossroads | Tsitsi Dangarembga and Booker Finalist...
Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga will be in conversation with South African Booker Prize finalist Achmat Dangor at a Goethe-Institut “Literary Crossroads” event on 6 December, The...
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Photos | Ake Festival: Day 2 | School Visitation
The 2017 Ake Arts and Book Festival took place from 14-18 November 2017, at Kuto Cultural Centre, Abeokuta. It featured a workshop, concerts, visits to secondary schools, a festival of short films,...
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For Her Farafina Workshop, Adichie Will Be the Second African to Receive the...
In 2018, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will be the second African to receive the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, following Kwame Dawes. The Ghanaian poet and founder of Africa Poetry Book...
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Opportunity | Submit to Issues 22, 23 and 24 of Saraba Magazine
Saraba magazine is currently open to submissions to its issues 22: “Open,” 23: “Fake Truths,” and 24: “Viral.” The deadline for submissions is 31 December 2017. The magazine will be paying ₦10,000...
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The 21 Writers Longlisted for the 2017 Short Story Day Africa Prize
The 2017 Short Story Day Africa Prize has announced a longlist of 21 writers: five from both South Africa and Nigeria, three from Kenya, two from Ethiopia, and one each from Zimbabwe, Uganda, Benin,...
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Saraba Editor Emmanuel Iduma Profiled in Africa Is a Country, Awarded an Andy...
The Nigerian novelist Emmanuel Iduma, fresh from being profiled by Africa Is a Country following the publication of the first print issue of Saraba magazine which he edits, has been awarded an Andy...
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Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award 2018: Fatin Abbas Wins, Efemia Chela...
Sudan’s Fatin Abbas, winner of a 2015 Miles Morland Scholarship, is one of four writers to receive a 2018 Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award. The Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award “gives its...
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