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Zukiswa Wanner’s Short Story Translated into 11 Languages for 2018 World Read...
For the 2018 World Read Aloud Day, the literacy advocate group Nal’ibali commissioned the South African novelist Zukiswa Wanner to write a story, “The Final Minute,” which has now been translated into...
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Congolese Novelist JJ Bola in UN Facebook Live Conversation with Oscar Winner...
Congolese novelist JJ Bola, author of No Place to Call Home (2017), was hosted in a conversation by Oscar winning actress Cate Blanchett. The event, which also featured Webster University student, Aya...
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Opportunity for African Writers | Submit to Bakwa Magazine’s Issue 08
Bakwa, Cameroon’s leading Anglophone literary magazine, is open to submissions for its 8th issue, themed around “pain.” Submissions can be emailed to dzekashu@bakwa.org. The deadline is April 15. Here...
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Opportunity for African Writers | Submit to Erotic Africa: The Sex Anthology
From the Erotic Africa: The Sex Anthology Team: Call for Submissions One of the things often passed as “African” is an easily shocked but pretentious sensibility when it comes to sex. Nigeria, for...
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Bissau-Guinean Writer Yovanka Paquete on How African and Global Literatures...
Bissau-Guinean writer Yovanka Paquete has penned an essay about the lack of visibility for Lusophone writers, both in Africa and on the global scene, in contrast to their better-known Anglophone and...
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The Confessional Generation | Otosirieze Obi-Young | Introduction to “Selves:...
Selves: An Afro Anthology of Creative Nonfiction is a forthcoming anthology of creative nonfiction, curated by Basit Jamiu and featuring writers from across the continent. Its cover is by Tope...
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Mathilda Edwards Named Manager of Miles Morland Foundation, Michela Wrong...
Changes are taking place at the Miles Morland Foundation: Michela Wrong has stepped down from her role as Literary Director, a position she took up in 2014, while the Foundation’s former Secretary,...
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The 2018 Sillerman First Book Prize Awarded to Botswana’s Tjawangwa Dema, for...
The 2018 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets has been awarded to Botswana’s Tjawangwa (TJ) Dema, for her collection, The Careless Seamstress. In addition to receiving the $1000 prize money,...
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See the Cover and New Publication Date for Chigozie Obioma’s Second Novel,...
Chigozie Obioma, on Facebook days ago, unveiled the cover for his forthcoming second novel, the beautifully-titled An Orchestra of Minorities. We do not know who the cover designer is but this is a...
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On Their 5th Anniversary, an Announcement from Miles Morland, Founder of the...
The Miles Morland Foundation marked its fifth anniversary last year. Founded in 2013, the Foundation is best-known for its Writing Scholarships: fiction (£18,000 to two, three or four writers over the...
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Lesley Nneka Arimah, Ayobami Adebayo and Marcus Low Are the Three Finalists...
Nigeria’s Lesley Nneka Arimah and Ayobami Adebayo and South Africa’s Marcus Low are the three finalists for the 2018 9Mobile Prize for Literature, for their respective books, What It Means When a Man...
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Photos | Mboka Festival 2018: Performance Poetry by Linton Kwesi Johnson,...
The second annual Mboka Festival of Arts, Culture and Sports took place in The Gambia from 6 to 20 January 2018. The event, a celebration of Gambian cultural heritage and African diasporic heritage,...
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“New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tano)”: See the 11...
Africa Poetry Book Fund (APBF)—which administers the Brunel International African Poetry Prize, the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, and the Glenna Luschei Prize—is set to publish its...
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How Market FiftyFour’s Focus on African Languages Impacts the Publishing...
In 2017, an exciting, unusual initiative called Market FiftyFour was launched. The project publishes and markets work by African writers in their own languages rather than in English, French, or...
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Tiah Beautement’s Helpful Advice for People Writing Erotica
The call we published last week for a new anthology, Erotic Africa: The Sex Anthology, has seen remarkable reaction, all of it welcoming, excitement. This past week, Tiah Marie Beautement, co-founder...
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The Dusty Manuscript Contest | GTBank Announces New Book Prize To Be Judged...
Guaranty Trust Bank has announced a new book prize called The Dusty Manuscript Contest. It will be Judged by Ainehi Edoro, Brittle Paper editor and Marquette University Assistant Professor of...
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Photos | Romeo Oriogun Hosted by Geosi Gyasi’s Korle Gonno Community Library...
In November of last year, interviewer and blogger Geosi Gyasi of Geosi Reads hosted Romeo Oriogun, winner of the 2017 Brunel Prize, for the Korle Gonno Community Library Visiting Writers Series in...
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Opportunity for Poets | Submit to “20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary...
A new anthology aiming to curate the most remarkable voices on the poetry scene is here. 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry will be guest-edited by Sudan’s Safia Elhillo, co-winner of...
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“Selves: An Afro Anthology of Creative Nonfiction”| New Series Collects...
Two weeks ago, we announced the coming of Selves: An Afro Anthology of Creative Nonfiction, a new project collecting powerful personal stories from across the continent. We published the introduction...
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The Brittle Paper Digest: 79 Notable Pieces of 2017
It isn’t that time of the year when we look back on what happened in it—that time is December, and this is February. But a delay in releasing this list seemed inevitable for a year that, on several...
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