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Teju Cole Offers Thoughts on Controversy Over NYT’s Coverage of Trump &...
Days ago on Facebook, Teju Cole made a post about the debate over how The New York Times covers and should cover the US president Donald Trump’s racist statements. The novelist, who is the photography...
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The 2019 Writivism Prizes Awarded to Nigeria’s Frances Ogamba & South...
The winners of the 2019 Writivism Prizes have been announced: the Koffi Addo Creative Nonfiction Prize went to Nigeria’s Frances Ogamba, for “The Valley of Memories,” and the Writivism Short Story...
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E.C. Osondu Wins the BOA Short Fiction Prize, Gets Publication Deal for His...
The Nigerian writer E.C. Osondu has won the $1,000 BOA Short Fiction Prize for the manuscript of his short story collection Alien Stories. The recognition comes with a spring 2021 publication deal...
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Bakwa Magazine Presents: Literary Translation Workshop in Collaboration with...
PRESS RELEASE: Bakwa Magazine, in collaboration with the University of Bristol, is pleased to announce that applications are open for an exciting literary translation workshop aimed at building...
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22 Authors, 37 Novels: An African History of the Booker Prize for Fiction
The Booker Prize for Fiction is awarded annually to the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom. Formerly known as the Booker-McConnell Prize...
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The Macondo Literary Festival, a Celebration of Lusophone & Anglophone...
A new literary festival will be celebrating both Anglophone and Lusophone literatures. The Macondo Literary Festival, named after the fictional town in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of...
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Arinze Ifeakandu on Writing Real Characters & Inter-ethnic Gay Relationships,...
Arinze Ifeakandu has a new short story in One Story magazine’s issue 256. “The Dreamer’s Litany” explores a volatile relationship between a Hausa man and an Igbo man in a Northern Nigerian city....
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New Anthology of South African Writing Explores Identity with Stories &...
A new anthology features “short stories inspired by hair.” Edited by Joanne Hichens and Karina M. Szczurek, HAIR: Weaving & Unpicking Stories of Identity is forthcoming from Tattoo Press in...
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Photos from the BookArtArea Workshop, Facilitated by Teju Cole, Emmanuel...
In June, BookArtArea, the educational initiative of Angels and Muse, the popular artists’ co-working space in Lagos, called for applications to a free prose-writing masterclass. It was to be taught by...
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The CORA-NLNG Prize Book Party Was an Evening to Remember
Although the general misconception is that writers and book lovers are boring people, the CORA-The Nigeria Prize for Literature Book Party 2019 is proof of how untrue that is. On the 28th of July,...
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The Funmi Iyanda-produced Adaptation of Jude Dibia’s Walking with Shadows,...
It comes full circle. In 2004, the popular Nigerian journalist Funmi Iyanda invited a man to her talk show, New Dawn with Funmi. During that interview, the man, Bisi Alimi, came out as gay. It invoked...
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Bernardine Evaristo & Chigozie Obioma Shortlisted for the Booker Prize for...
Bernardine Evaristo, for her eighth book Girl, Woman, Other, and Chigozie Obioma, for his second novel An Orchestra of Minorities, have been shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize, worth £50,000. It is...
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Introduction to The Year of Free Birds: Stories Featuring Visually Impaired...
In October 2019, Brittle Paper will be publishing The Year of Free Birds: Stories Featuring Visually Impaired Protagonists, the second release in the Afro Anthology Series, curated by the Nigerian...
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For Failure to Attribute an Original Source, the Caine Prize Removes Tochukwu...
Last week, we received suggestions of similarity between two short stories. One, the Nigerian writer Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor’s “All Our Lives,” won the 2018 Short Story Day Africa (SSDA) Prize, was...
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EVENT | Brittle Paper Panel at 2019 Lambda Literary Festival in Los Angeles:...
Brittle Paper will be at the 2019 Lambda Literary Festival in Los Angeles, on Friday, September 27. We will be featured in an event focused both on our curatorial work in African literature and on the...
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How to Donate to the African Speculative Fiction Society
The African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS) is an organisation of around 180 writers, editors, comic & graphic artists, and filmmakers working “in the fields of speculative fiction such as...
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The Fundamentals of Editing Fiction and Non-Fiction: Apply to SBMEN’s...
The Society for Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN) is calling for applications to its third editing workshop of 2019, to be held in Lagos. Themed “The Fundamentals of Editing Fiction and...
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Enter for the 2019 Awele Creative Trust Short Story Award
The 2019 Awele Creative Trust Award is open for entries. Founded in 2013 by the NLNG Prize-winning novelist Chika Unigwe, as an initiative of her Awele Creative Trust, the Short Story Award recognizes...
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For World Diabetes Day, Miss BloodSugar Calls for Entries to Competition &...
Press release: What’s your diabetes story? Are you diabetic? Have you been impacted by the experiences of a family/friend/patient with diabetes? To mark World Diabetes Day, Miss BloodSugar created a...
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Read the First Excerpt from Petina Gappah’s New Novel, Out of Darkness,...
Petina Gappah‘s new novel Out of Darkness, Shining Light was released on 10 September by Simon & Schuster imprint Scribner. Told by a woman and a man, it details the 285-day journey by a party...
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