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The 2018 Brittle Paper Anniversary Award: Meet the 8 Finalists
The shortlists for the 2018 Brittle Paper Awards were announced in October. Begun in 2017 to mark our seventh anniversary, the Awards aim to recognize the finest, original pieces of writing by...
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Scholastique Mukasonga’s Novel, Our Lady of the Nile, in Film Production as...
Rwanda’s best known contemporary writer, Scholastique Mukasonga, author of the novel Our Lady of the Nile (2015) and the memoir Cockroaches (2016), has a new short story and interview in The New...
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Out There: 5 Talkbits on War Futures in Outer Spaces | Ainehi Edoro, Camae...
As part of its Horizons of the Humanities initiative, the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) will be hosting a conversation on the futuristic and political featuring...
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Read an Excerpt from Michelle Obama’s Memoir, Becoming
Michelle Obama’s buzzed-about memoir Becoming will be published in South Africa by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Ahead of the release, The Reading List has obtained an excerpt and some...
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Chimurenga’s Latest Issue of The Chronic Explores Circulations and the...
Fresh from winning the 2018-20 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice, arts and politics collective Chimurenga has released the October 2018 issue of its magazine The Chronic. The issue, titled...
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The 2018 Brittle Paper Awards: The Winners
The Brittle Paper Awards is our way of recognizing the finest, original pieces of literature by Africans available online for free. We began it in 2017 to mark our seventh anniversary. The $1,100 cash...
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Chimamanda Adichie Is Coming to South Africa for the 2018 Abantu Festival
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is coming to South Africa for the 2018 Abantu Book Festival. The announcement was made this morning on Twitter by the festival organizers. She joins a list of guests that...
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A Stranger’s Pose | Emmanuel Iduma and Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ in Book Chat at...
Nigerian authors Emmanuel Iduma and Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ will be in conversation at Angels & Muse, Lagos on November 23. They will be discussing Iduma’s new memoir A Stranger’s Pose. Join Emmanuel...
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Filigree: Contemporary Black British Poetry | Peepal Tree Press Publishes New...
UK-based initiative Inscribe Writer Development Programme has curated a new anthology published by Peepal Tree Press. Filigree: Contemporary Black British Poetry, edited by Nii Aykwei Parkes and with...
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Introduction to 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry | Safia...
The poems we have curated in this anthology are electric, unruly, charged with desire and melancholies. They are intensely private yet quite magically find a way to be communal. There is a...
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Tributes Pour in for Ikeogu Oke, NLNG Prize-winning Poet Who Has Passed on at 51
Nigerian poet Ikeogu Oke, who won the 2017 NLNG Prize for his poetry collection The Heresiad, has passed on at the age of 51. He died yesterday, 25 November, at National Hospital, Abuja. On 16...
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Ainehi Edoro’s Essay on the God Complex of African Writers Sets Off Social...
Once in a while, an essay comes along, stinging and unrelenting, that tears readers into camps of agreement and disagreement. Three days ago, UW-Madison professor Ainehi Edoro, founder of Brittle...
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Submissions for the Gerald Kraak Prize and Anthology Will Now Be Open Year-Round
Submissions for the Gerald Kraak Prize and Anthology will now be open year-round. The announcement was made by Jacana Literary Foundation (JLF) and The Other Foundation, who administer the Prize. With...
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20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry | New Project Pushes...
From prizes, publishing houses and festivals to magazines, journals, writers’ development initiatives, grants and blogs, the contemporary literary scene in Africa is, like those in Europe and in the...
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New Book Celebrates Ngugi wa Thiong’o at 80
A new book, Ngugi: Reflections on his Life of Writing, edited by Simon Gikandi and Ndirangu Wachanga, celebrates Kenya’s most prolific writer. Writing about the book, Professor Wachanga, who has also...
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The 4 Winners of the 2018 Miles Morland Scholarships
Four writers have been announced as the winners of the 2018 Miles Morland Writing Scholarships. Cote D’Ivoire’s Edwige Dro and Nigeria’s Kola Tubosun won for nonfiction, and South Africa’s Sibabalwe...
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Meet 2018 Brittle Paper Awards Winners at Abantu Book Festival
The Abantu Book Festival kicks off today, 6 December, and will end on 9 December. Among the festival’s guests are winners and finalists of the 2018 Brittle Paper Awards: Zimbabwean-South African...
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Previously Unseen Stories by Naguib Mahfouz Set for December Publication
Previously unseen short stories by the late Egyptian Nobel Prize laureate Naguib Mahfouz will be published on 11 December, his 107th birthday, according to Al Ahram and Egyptian Streets. The book will...
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James Murua’s Literature Blog Wins at Sanaa Theatre Awards
Our colleagues at James Murua’s Literature Blog are among the winners of the 2018 Sanaa Theatre Awards in Kenya. The blog’s founder and literary journalist James Murua was named “Best Theatre, Art and...
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Africa in Dialogue Publishes Interview e-Book with 2017 Brittle Paper Awards...
Leading interview magazine Africa in Dialogue has published an e-book of interviews with the winners of the 2017 Brittle Paper Awards. The conversations were conducted by the gifted conversationalist...
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