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Winners of the 2019 Nommo Awards
On October 25, the African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS) announced the winners of the 2019 Nommo Awards. The award announcement and presentation of prizes were held at a ceremony during the Ake...
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Oyinkan Braithwaite Wins the 2019 Anthony Award for Best First Novel
Nigerian author Oyinkan Braithwaite has won the 2019 Anthony Award for her debut novel My Sister, the Serial Killer. Braithwaite was announced winner in the category of Best First Novel at a gala...
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Vol. II of 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Guest-edited by...
In November 2018, we published the debut volume of the 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry series. The first of its kind to focus only on poetry from across the continent, the...
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Apply for SBMEN’s Workshop “Literary Criticism: Judging Dynamic Creative...
The Society for Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN) is calling for applications to its fourth (and last) editing workshop of 2019, to be held in Lagos. The workshop is themed ‘Literary...
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Is There a Quota of 5 Books by African Authors for Every “Best 100 Books of...
As yet another year draws to a close, literary lists of various sorts are once again filling our newsfeeds. During the first week of November 2019, BBC Arts released a list titled “100 Novels That...
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“Read Salone, Build Salone”: The First Sierra Leone National Book Fair | 5-7...
Between December 5 to December 7, Freetown, Sierra Leone, will play host to the Sierra Leone National Book Fair—the first of its kind since 1925. In a statement provided to Awoko, Mohamed Sheriff, an...
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Alain Mabanckou’s New Book, a Collection of his Lectures Delivered at the...
Congolese author Alain Mabanckou, possibly the most prominent name in Francophone African literature and renowned for his experimental writing, has a new book in the works: a collection of essays...
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The 4 Winners of the 2019 Miles Morland Scholarship
The 2019 Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship has been awarded to four writers. Two Kenyans, Gloria Mwaniga Odari and Parselelo Kantai, won for fiction and nonfiction respectively, with...
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Otosirieze Obi-Young Wins Inaugural The Future Awards Prize for Literature
We’re thrilled (read: jumping) to announce that Brittle Paper‘s Deputy Editor Otosirieze Obi-Young has won the inaugural The Future Awards Africa Prize for Literature—his very first award win. The...
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KIWI Films Acquires Film Rights to Kopano Matlwa’s Coconut
South African production company KIWI Films has recently optioned novelist Kopano Matlwa’s debut Coconut for a feature film adaptation. The Pontas Agency, Matlwa’s agents, announced the sale of the...
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Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Virtue and Vengeance Selected as Good Morning...
Tomi Adeyemi’s much-anticipated Children of Virtue and Vengeance, the second installment of her Legacy of Orïsha trilogy, is the December book club read for Good Morning America, a highly successful...
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Cover Reveal for Ikenga, Nnedi Okorafor’s Debut for Middle Grade Readers
It’s hard to keep up with Nnedi Okorafor. One minute she’s creating a TV production company for Africanfuturist stories, the next she’s winning the Nommo Award. What we’re currently excited about,...
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Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, Nnamdi Oguike Among Authors Lined Up for the 2019...
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, 2010 winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (Africa), and Nnamdi Oguike, one of the winners of the 2019 Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship, are...
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Nnedi Okorafor Tweets About Her Tesla Problem. Elon Musk Steps In.
Nnedi Okorafor recently ran into an issue with her newly acquired Tesla. And CEO/co-founder of Tesla Inc. Elon Musk, fresh off his short-lived hiatus from Twitter, could not resist giving her a hand....
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Tejumola Olaniyan, Eminent Professor of English and African Cultural Studies,...
Tejumola Olaniyan, eminent professor of English and African literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died of heart failure in Madison, Wisconsin, on Saturday, November 30, 2019. He had...
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The Voices I Overcame To Write Silence Is My Mother Tongue | Sulaiman Addonia
“Do you not want to ever see me again?” my mother said to me on the phone one day in late 2008. She was in Eritrea. This was a few months after the publication of my first novel, The Consequences of...
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The 2019 Brittle Paper Award for Essays & Think Pieces: Meet The 5 Finalists
The 5 Shortlists for The 2019 Brittle Paper Awards were announced in November. Begun in 2017 to mark our seventh anniversary, the Awards aim to recognize the finest, original pieces of writing by...
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The 2019 Brittle Paper Award for Fiction: Meet The 5 Finalists
The 5 Shortlists for The 2019 Brittle Paper Awards were announced in November. Begun in 2017 to mark our seventh anniversary, the Awards aim to recognize the finest, original pieces of writing by...
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BBC Apologises to Bernardine Evaristo Over Presenter’s “Another Author”...
Last night, the BBC was at the receiving end of a storm on Twitter when a presenter failed to name Bernardine Evaristo in a reference to the Booker Prize she shared with Margaret Atwood. The...
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Apply to Study for an MFA in Creative Writing at Texas State University
The creative writing program at Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas is currently accepting applications for a Master’s in Fine Art (MFA) in Creative Writing, for Fall 2020. Graduates from the...
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