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Cassava Republic Wins London Book Fair’s 2018 Inclusivity in Publishing...
Cassava Republic has been awarded the Inclusivity in Publishing Award at the 2018 London Book Fair’s International Excellence Awards. The awards are sponsored by Hytex and held in association with the...
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Binyavanga Wainaina Is in Love
Binyavanga Wainaina is in love. He began posting a series of announcements on social media two weeks ago. “I am in love,” he wrote on Facebook. Then last week: “Am getting married next year.” And then...
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Petina Gappah in Sunday Times’ List of 100 Best Short Stories of All Time
Petina Gappah’s “The News of Her Death” has been named in Sunday Times‘ list of the 100 best short stories of all time. The Zimbabwean novelist shared the news on Facebook. While the list isn’t online...
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Zambia’s Inaugural Kalemba Short Story Prize Goes to Mali Kambandu
The inaugural Kalemba Short Story Prize has gone to Mali Kambandu for her short story, “A Hand to Hold,” described by the judges as “griping and beautifully told.” The $1000 prize—funded and...
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Opportunity for Writers | Submit to Dwart Magazine’s 6th Issue
Dwartonline magazine is seeking submissions to its 6th issue, due to be published in July 2018. Submissions are open for poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama, art and photography. Their reading for...
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Naivo’s Beyond The Rice Fields Is the First Novel from Madagascar to be...
The opening up of the African literary scene—the inter-lingual communion of its Indigenous, Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone literatures—remains in progress. Each year, a step forward is taken....
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Kayo Chingonyi’s Kumukanda Honoured with the 2018 Dylan Thomas Prize
Late last year, we brought news of the remarkable acclaim garnered by Zambian-British poet Kayo Chingonyi’s poetry collection Kumukanda, which explores black masculinity as well as references pop...
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Abubakar Adam Ibrahim Is the 2018 Recipient of the Michael Elliot Award for...
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is the 2018 recipient of the Michael Elliot Award for Excellence in African Storytelling. He won the Award for his report in Granta titled “All That Was Familiar.” Brittle Paper...
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The 5 Writers Shortlisted for the 2018 Caine Prize
The shortlist for the 2018 Caine Prize has been announced. The Caine Prize is awarded to the best 3,000-10,000-word short story by an African writer. The 2017 prize was awarded to Sudanese poet Bushra...
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EVENT | Poets In Nigeria 2018 NSPP Awards Ceremony at Godfrey Okoye...
Poets in Nigeria (PIN), which runs the Nigerian Students’ Poetry Prize (NSPP), will be holding its 2018 Awards Ceremony at Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu, on 24 May 2018. The university is the...
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Writing in Migration | Photos from the Festival of African Writers in Berlin
Last month, the Nigerian-German novelist Olumide Popoola, author of When We Speak of Nothing, curated a star-studded festival of African writers in Berlin. The event, held from 26–28 April at Kino...
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WATCH | Feyisayo Anjorin’s Novel, Kasali’s Africa, Has Book Trailers
Feyisayo Anjorin’s new novel Kasali’s Africa has a book trailer. A book trailer does what a film trailer does: offer the reader visual engagement with, or a visual representation of, the book’s story....
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Things Fall Apart, Song Of Lawino, Nervous Conditions Among BBC’s Top 100...
In April, BBC Culture polled literary experts around the world to “nominate up to five fictional stories they felt had shaped mindsets or influenced history,” and got answers from 108 writers,...
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Milk Fever | Megan Ross Releases Debut Poetry Collection
South African writer Megan Ross, recipient of the inaugural Brittle Paper Award for Fiction for her powerfully lyrical short story “Farang,” has a debut collection of poetry called Milk Fever. The...
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The 9 Writers Shortlisted for the 2017/18 Short Story Day Africa Prize
Short Story Day Africa has announced the shortlist for its $800 2017/18 Prize. The Prize’s theme, announced in 2017, is ID—meaning both “identity” and the psychoanalytic concept of the Id—and required...
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Miles Morland Foundation 2018 Creative Writing Workshop: Participants on...
The Miles Morland Foundation held its second annual Creative Writing Workshop in February. A group of writers who had applied to the Miles Morland Writing Scholarships were invited for ten days of...
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Ainehi Edoro to Leave Marquette University for Dual Appointment at University...
Ainehi Edoro, founder of Brittle Paper, is set to leave her Assistant Professor position at Marquette University for a dual appointment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For the past two years...
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Kano’s Jane Austen | Hausa-Language Novelist Farida Ado Is One of TIME’s 2018...
Hausa-language romance novelist Farido Ado has been included in TIME Magazine’s 2018 list of Next Generation Leaders. Ado, who is 32 and has written six books focused on “forbidden romance, polygamy...
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Chike Frankie Edozien’s Lives Of Great Men Wins LAMBDA Award for Gay Memoir
Chike Frankie Edozien’s Lives of Great Men: Living and Loving as an African Gay Man has won the LAMBDA Literary Award for Gay Memoir. Last October, we brought news of Lives of Great Men and its...
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Dele Fatunla: Meet the New Administrator of the Caine Prize
Dele Meiji Fatunla has been appointed the new Administrator of the Caine Prize. The Prize had announced its search for a replacement for Dr Lizzy Attree, who left in January of this year. Mr Fatunla...
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