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Aminatta Forna’s Novel, “Happiness,” Is Out, and She Is on the Cover of...
Last November, we brought news of Aminatta Forna’s fifth book and fourth novel, Happiness. The book is now out, and after the first reviews, Forna is on the cover of Kirkus Reviews, the literary...
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WATCH | Haruna Ayesha Attah Announces New Novel Set During the Slave Trade in...
Haruna Ayesha Attah is the author of two novels: the Commonwealth Prize-shortlisted Harmattan Rain (2009) and the Kwani? Manuscript Contest-nominated Saturday’s Shadows (2015). Ayesha is a 2014 Africa...
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The 8 Poets Shortlisted for the 2018 Brunel International African Poetry Prize
Eight poets have been shortlisted for the 2018 Brunel International African Poetry Prize. The announcement was made in a statement published on the official website of the Prize. Founded by Bernardine...
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Cassava Republic Unveils Anthology Cover for “She Called Me Woman: Nigeria’s...
Cassava Republic has unveiled the cover for the forthcoming anthology, She Called Me Woman: Nigeria’s Queer Women Speak. The anthology, to be released on 24 April of this year, collects 25 first-hand...
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James Murua’s Literature Blog Launches Weekly “African Literary Podcast”
James Murua’s Literature Blog has launched a podcast series. Founded in 2012 by Kenyan blogger James Murua, James Murua’s Literature Blog covers news and events on the African literary scene. Here is...
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Tomi Adeyemi’s “Children of Blood and Bone”| Read Chapters 1-6
Last year, 23-year-old Nigerian Harvard graduate Tomi Adeyemi scored a million-dollar book + movie deal for her Young Adult trilogy. The movie, with rights acquired by Fox 2000, is currently in...
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For Women’s History Month, Enkare Review Is Listing African Literary Women...
For March 2018’s Women’s History Month, Enkare Review magazine is listing the 30 African literary women who have inspired them. The project, curated by one of the magazine’s editors, Rosie Olang’, is...
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Lesley Nneka Arimah and Zinzi Clemmons Are Finalists for the $35,000 Aspen...
Lesley Nneka Arimah’s short story collection, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, and Zinzi Clemmons’ novel, What We Lose, are finalists for the $35,000 Aspen Words Literary Prize. They are...
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Chike Frankie Edozien’s “Lives of Great Men” Is a Finalist for the 2018...
Chike Frankie Edozien’s Lives of Great Men is a finalist for the Publishing Triangle Awards, in the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction category. The New York University journalism professor’s book...
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The Caine Prize Is Alright. Right?
Something is happening at the Caine Prize. Here at Brittle Paper, our role has been to support African literary institutions and spaces, to situate them in discourses, ignite conversations about their...
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WATCH | Jalada Mobile Literary and Arts Festival in Kampala and Kabale
In 2017, the pan-African collective Jalada Africa announced a mega-step: a mobile literary festival covering five countries in East Africa. The Jalada Mobile Literary and Arts Festival was held from...
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Introducing Brittle Paper’s Brunel Prize Poems Review Series
The entry of African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) expanded in more than one way the African literary scene. With its chapbook series and prizes, it helped revolutionize the poetry landscape on the...
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Alain Mabanckou Has Resigned from the 2018 Caine Prize Judging Panel
Days ago, we ran an editorial on the seemingly unsteady state of affairs at the Caine Prize since Dr Lizzy Attree, director of the Prize since 2011, stepped aside from her role. We pointed out that...
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Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀’s “Stay With Me” Is the Only Novel on the £30,000 Wellcome...
Ayobami Adebayo’s debut novel, Stay with Me, has been shortlisted for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize. Adebayo’s novel was shortlisted alongside Meredith Wadman’s The Vaccine Race, Lindsey Fitzharris’...
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Brunel Prize 2018 Poems Review | Part 1: Nour Kamel and Gbenga Adeoba
Last week, we announced our inaugural Brunel Prize Poems Review Series. Our reviews of the poems shortlisted for the 2018 Brunel International African Poetry Prize begins with readings of entries by...
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Yewande Omotoso Is on the Shortlist of the €100,000 International Dublin...
South Africa-based Nigerian novelist Yewande Omotoso has been shortlisted for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award, for her second novel The Woman Next Door. The Award’s longlist, released in...
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Inaugural Graywolf Press Africa Prize Goes to Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s...
Last September, we brought news of the launch of the Graywolf Press Africa Prize, judged by A. Igoni Barrett. The inaugural Prize has now been awarded to Kenya’s Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, for her novel...
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Brunel Prize 2018 Poems Review | Part 2: Hiwot Adilow and Michelle Angwenyi
Last week, we announced our inaugural Brunel Prize Poems Review Series. Our reviews of the poems shortlisted for the 2018 Brunel International African Poetry Prize began with readings of entries by...
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Sarah Ladipo Manyika and Zinzi Clemmons Are Finalists for the California Book...
Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s second novel, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun, and Zinzi Clemmons’ debut novel, What We Lose, have been shortlisted for the 2018 California Book Awards, in the Fiction...
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NoViolet Bulawayo Is the 2018 Recipient of SFSU’s Gina Berriault Award for...
NoViolet Bulawayo has been honoured with San Francisco State University’s 2018 Gina Berriault Award for Fiction. She received the Award in an April 9 event in the university themed “An Evening with...
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