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Influential Publisher, Editor & Critic Ellah Wakatama Allfrey Is the New...
The influential publisher, editor, critic, and broadcaster Ellah Wakatama Allfrey is now Chairperson of the Caine Prize for African Writing. Allfrey, who is Zimbabwean, and is a Trustee of the Prize,...
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JK Anowe’s Anticipated Poetry Chapbook, Sky Raining Fists, Forthcoming from...
The Nigerian poet JK Anowe, Chapbook Series Editor at Praxis Magazine, won the inaugural Brittle Paper Award for Poetry in 2017, for his poem “Credo to Leave.” Published in Expound, “Credo to Leave”...
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Bakwa Magazine Launches Publishing Arm, Bakwa Books, Aimed at Discovering &...
Bakwa, Cameroon’s leading literary and arts magazine, has launched a publishing arm. Bakwa Books, necessitated by “the absence of innovative local publishing channels” in the country and aimed at...
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Apply to The Future Is Back Workshop for Emerging LGBTQ+ Writers, Facilitated...
Olumide Popoola will be teaching a workshop for LGBTQ writers in London, funded by ACE and themed “The Future Is Back.” The Nigerian-German author of When We Speak of Nothing began the initiative in...
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RadioBook Rwanda | Huza Press Releases Hybrid Books Combining Words, Art, &...
Last May, we brought news of Huza Press’ new hybrid books imprint RadioBook Rwanda, a collaborative project with Kenya’s Kwani? and UK’s No Bindings funded by the British Council. Hybrid books, hailed...
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Longlist for 30th Sunday Times’ Alan Paton Award Showcases Explorations of...
Sunday Times newspaper has announced the longlists for the Alan Paton Award and the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize. Founded in 1989, “as Apartheid began to crumble,” the Alan Paton Award is in its 30th...
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Submit to the $12,000 Graywolf Press Africa Prize for Novel Manuscripts,...
The 2019 Graywolf Press Africa Prize is now open to submissions. The award, launched in 2017 by the publishing house Graywolf Press, with the Nigerian novelist A. Igoni Barrett as judge, recognizes “a...
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Rania Mamoun’s Short Story Collection, Thirteen Months of Sunrise,...
Manchester-based independent publisher Comma Press will be releasing the Sudanese writer Rania Mamoun’s short story collection Thirteen Months of Sunrise. The collection won the 2017 PEN/Heim...
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Win Copies of Marlon James’ Black Leopard, Red Wolf in Narrative Landscape...
Narrative Landscape Press, the Nigerian publishers of Marlon James’ Black Leopard, Red Wolf, recently announced a competition which will see successful participants win copies of the novel. This...
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Oyinkan Braithwaite and Diana Evans’ Shortlisting for the 2019 Women’s Prize...
Oyinkan Braithwaite’s crime thriller My Sister, the Serial Killer and Diana Evans’ exploration of midlife crisis Ordinary People have been shortlisted for the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Both are...
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Brunel Prize 2019 Poems Review | Part 3: Afua Ansong & Mary-Alice Daniel
In 2018, Brittle Paper introduced a Brunel Prize Poems Review series, starting with poems on that year’s shortlist. The series returns for the 2019 Prize. READ: Brunel Prize 2019 Poems Review | Part...
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#WhyI’mTalkingAboutRace | On African Writers, Empathy, Woke Identity...
The South African writer Panashe Chigumadzi published an essay in Africa Is a Country, “Why I’m No Longer Talking to Nigerians About Race: On Writers, Empathy and (Black) Solidarity Politics,” which...
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African Studies Association of Africa Establishes the Pius Adesanmi Memorial...
In honour of the towering late scholar who passed on in March, the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) has established the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award for Excellence in African Writing, a...
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Critical Muslim’s Issue 30, Guest-edited by Yovanka Paquete & Henry Brefo,...
The 30th issue of Critical Muslim, the influential Hurst quarterly showcasing ground-breaking thinking on Islam and what it means to be a Muslim in a rapidly changing, interconnected world, focuses on...
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Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, Sulaiman Addonai & Diana Evans Longlisted for Inaugural...
Three African novelists have been longlisted for the inaugural Orwell Prize for Political Fiction: the Zimbabwean Novuyo Rosa Tshuma for her House of Stone, the Eritrean-Ethiopian Sulaiman Addonai for...
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Helon Habila’s Fourth Novel, Travellers, Is a Roaming Exploration of the...
Helon Habila’s fifth book and fourth novel will arrive in June 2019, from Penguin Random House imprint Hamish Hamilton. Titled Travellers, the 320-page book follows the novels Waiting for an Angel...
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DCTV Presents | The Poets, the Documentary of Syl Cheney-Coker & Niyi...
In July 2018, we covered the arrival of The Poets, the documentary of the Sierra Leonean poet Syl Cheney-Coker and the Nigerian poet Niyi Osundare’s friendship. The film will now screen in New York...
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Short Story Day Africa Announces 2019 Prize Theme: Disruption
Short Story Day Africa has announced the theme for its 2019 Prize: “Disruption.” The prize will be open to submissions on 1 June 2019 and be closed on 31 October 2019. As with previous prizes, a...
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The Caine Prize Announces 2019 Shortlist
Five writers—from Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Nigeria—have been shortlisted for the 2019 Caine Prize, for short stories that explore “the ordinary in an extraordinary manner.” Founded in 2000, and...
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Akachi Chukwuemeka, Poet and Editor of the University of Nigeria’s Literary...
Chukwuemeka “Akachi” Emmanuel Ugwoke, a Nigerian poet and editor of The Muse, the literary journal of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and the oldest student journal in West Africa, has passed on at...
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