Akwaeke Emezi’s Next Novel is a Romance Fiction About a Young Artist Finding...
Akwaeke Emezi announced on Twitter that they will be publishing their first romance novel titled You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty. The novel is set to be released by Atria Books in 2022....
View ArticleNominate Someone to Win a 1 Million Naira Grant for Fostering Difference and...
The Central Working Committee of the Future Festival Africa have announced the call for nominations for 2021 edition of the Nigeria Prize for Difference and Diversity. In its second year, the prize...
View Article9 African Writers Longlisted for the 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction has published its longlist of sixteen novels, more than half of which were written by African authors from Sudan, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco. The...
View ArticleThe Five Writers Shortlisted for the 2021 Afritondo Short Story Prize
Afritondo Short Story Prize has announced the shortlist for its 2021 prize. The writers, who represent different countries from across the continent, were selected from an earlier sixteen-named...
View ArticleAbdulrazak Gurnah Longlisted for the 2021 Walter Scott Prize for Historical...
Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah is on the 2021 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for his tenth novel Afterlives, alongside Maggie O’Farrell for Hamnet and Hillary Mantel for The Mirror and...
View ArticleImbolo Mbue is Cover Star for the March/April Issue of Poets and Writers
Cameroonian novelist Imbolo Mbue covers the March/April 2021 issue of Poets and Writers. In the cover photo, she looks stunning in her signature afro, a yellow high-neck top, and green double teardrop...
View ArticleScholastique Mukasonga is the First African Woman to Win the Simone de...
Rwandan writer Scholastique Mukasonga has won the 2021 Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom. The prize was established in 2008 to recognize “a person or an association, a work or an action...
View ArticleYaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom Longlisted for the 2021 Women’s Prize for...
Ghanaian author Yaa Gyasi is on the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist for her second novel Transcendent Kingdom. The longlist of sixteen includes novels from previous winner Ali Smith and 2020...
View ArticleWe Are Loving the Cover Art for Chibundu Onuzo’s Forthcoming Novel Sankofa
Chibundu Onuzo shared on Instagram that her forthcoming novel, Sankofa, now has two cover designs! Sankofa is set for release on June 3 from Virago Books in the U.K. and October 5 from Catapult in the...
View ArticleOpportunity for Writers: The 2021 Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African...
The Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature is currently accepting submissions for its sixth edition. Founded in 2014 by Dr. Lizzy Attree and Dr. Mukoma Wa Ngugi, the prize “has the...
View ArticleAnthology of Erotic Tales Features Chigozie Obioma, Helen Oyeyemi, and Marlon...
Marlon James, Helen Oyeyemi, and Chigozie Obioma are contributing to an anthology titled Anonymous Sex, which will be published by The Borough Press in February 2022. The anthology will feature erotic...
View Article14 Dates Announced for Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were Book Tour
Imbolo Mbue’s latest novel, How Beautiful We Were, releases this month as she kicks off a virtual book tour around the United States and Canada. The Cameroonian-American writer made waves with her...
View ArticleDouble Consciousness in Walter Mosley’s Devil in the Blue Dress — Watch...
The thirty-second episode of Professor Ato Quayson’s vlog Critic.Reading.Writing is up! In this episode, the professor analyzes connections between the noir fiction genre, race, and social critique in...
View ArticleIn New Book, Wole Soyinka Criticizes Lying and Sensationalism in Academic...
Wole Soyinka has a new book titled Trumpism in Academe. The book comes out a few months after his third novel, Chronicles of the Happiest People on Earth, was published in Nigeria. Trumpism in Academe...
View ArticleFrancesca Ekwuyasi, Sulaiman Addonia and Romeo Oriogun are 2021 Lambda Award...
Canadian author of Nigerian descent Francesca Ekwuyasi, Ethiopian author Sulaiman Addonia, and Nigerian poet Romeo Oriogun are finalists for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award. In its 33rd year, the Lambda...
View ArticleFeminist Writer and Icon Nawal El Saadawi Passes Away at Age 89
Egyptian writer, activist, and physician Nawal El Saadawi has died at age 89 on March 21, 2021. Saadawi’s daughter, Mona Helmi, tells Al Jazeera that her mother passed away in a hospital in Cairo after...
View ArticleChika Unigwe’s New Novel “Leaving Meshach” Forthcoming in 2022
Award-winning Nigerian author and professor Chika Unigwe has a new book on its way. Titled Leaving Meshach, the book is her seventh novel and her first in over six years, following 2014’s Black...
View ArticleSuper Sema Is Lupita Nyong’o Co-Produced Animated Series
Lupita Nyong’o has teamed up with the Kenyan production company, Kukua, to produce Super Sema, an animated YouTube series for children. Super Sema is about a 10-year-old Kenyan superhero who uses her...
View ArticleSubmit to the Nyabola Prize for Science Fiction 2021
The Nyabola Prize for Science Fiction is an initiative of the Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize. It is a special award open to young people aged between 18 and 35, writing science and speculative fiction...
View ArticleSubmit to the 2021 Kendeka Prize for African Literature
The Kendeka Prize is a literary competition administered by Kenyan-based Solano Publications Ltd and awarded to the best piece of unpublished short story by an African writer, either fiction or...
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