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Nigeria’s First-ever Church Erotica Coming Soon as a Novella
I am delighted to announce the forthcoming release of Holy Sex, a wild romp of a novella about a Nigerian pastor’s erotic exploits. In May of 2015, I posted the first of six stories in a story series...
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The Story We Must Never Forget | Helon Habila Documents the Chibok Tragedy in...
Helon Habila ypically writes works that are charged with social and political meaning and relevance. His 2008 novel Oil on Water which won the Commonwealth Prize took up issues such as kidnapping, oil...
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Donald Trump is Lead Character in Chimamanda Adichie’s New Short Story
In a totally mind-blowing act of literary brilliance, Chimamanda Adichie pens a story about Trump’s wife, Melania. The story, titled “The Arrangements,” is an imaginary take on Trump’s life, as told...
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Win Fabulous Prizes as Brittle Paper Celebrates 6th Year Anniversary
On August 1, 2010, I published the first ever blogpost on Brittle Paper. It’s been six years of writing, six years of drumming up global interest in African literature within a digital and social...
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I ❤️ African Literature Writing Contest | 300 Words for a Chance to Win $100
Brittle Paper, your go-to site for African writing and literary culture, will turn 6 in a few weeks—August 1. To celebrate this milestone, we’ve launched a writing contest to give you a chance to say...
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#CainePrize2016 | And the Winner is Lidudumalingani! | Caine Prize for...
Lidudumalingani has just been announced winner of the 2016 Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story titled “Memories We Lost.” The announcement was made at the award ceremony, which took...
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Read the Top Five Selections for the I ❤️ African Literature Writing Contest
When we announced the I ❤️ African Literature writing contest two weeks ago, we honestly did not know what to expect. The idea was to celebrate our 6th year anniversary by having readers profess their...
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Why We are Celebrating Ggbenga Adesina’s Poem in New York Times Magazine
Gbenga Adesina first came under our radar in 2014 when he submitted a poem titled “Rediscovery,” a beautiful piece that we went on to publish. He continued writing and getting his work out there in...
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Two Announcements Later, Chika Unigwe Brightens Our 2016
2016 has been a rather dark and gloomy year, to say the least. Tragic news of loss and violence seems to be the mainstay of our social media timelines. While it is important to pay attention to these...
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Opportunity in African Publishing | Wasafari Magazine is Hiring | August 1...
London-based Brittlers! We found an opportunity we’d like to call to your attention. Wasafiri Magazine offers global literary content that includes Africa-related writing. They are looking for a...
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Opportunity for African Writers | Apply for the Morland Writing Scholarship
Do you need time to finish up a fiction manuscript or to do research for a non-fiction project? Then this award is for you. The Miles Morland Foundation awards African writers a one-year stipend that...
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“I’m so emotionally exhausted by the murders”| Adichie on Police Killings in...
Chimamanda Adichie was interviewed during the Washington Ideas Forum last week. Ifemelu’s blogposts on race in America came up. The interviewer wanted to know how Ifemelu, one of Adichie’s most iconic...
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Teju Cole’s New Book Blind Spot is a “Multi-media Diary”
Dear Teju Cole fans hoping that his next book would be fiction, you’ll have to wait a little while longer. The author announced on Facebook that he has a new book coming out, and it is not fiction....
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Ake Festival 2016 | Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s Writing Workshop | by Nmadiuto Uche
Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s novella Like a Mule Bringing Ice-Cream to the Sun is character driven. When the group of 25 participants at the 2016 Ake Fiction Workshop sat around Sarah on Tuesday afternoon...
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New Anthology Marks Nigeria’s 56th Independence Anniversary | Read Enter...
A group of writers are celebrating Nigeria’s independence day in the best way possible. They’ve put together an anthology titled Enter Naija: The Book of Places. It is a powerful literary project that...
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How I Found My Greatness: Reflections on the 2016 Ake Arts and Book Festival...
Abeokuta, our venue for Ake Arts and Book Festival, is a town founded by defeated warriors who had found succor from invaders beneath its rocks. Maybe that was why I felt at ease from the moment I...
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The New Yorker Profiles Kenyan Online Bookseller Magunga Williams
A LITTLE over a week ago, The New Yorker ran a story on Magunga Williams, Kenyan bookstore owner and blogger, in their Page-Turner section. The feature, penned by Daniel A. Gross, a Boston-based...
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Adichie, Selasi, Teju Cole, and Others Share their Favorite 2016 Books
2016 is coming to an end and, as is their tradition, The Guardian UK has asked some of the globe’s top writers to pick their favorite books of the year. It is a rich and interesting list. Among those...
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Teju Cole on How John Berger Changed His Life
John Berger, the acclaimed author of Ways of Seeing died yesterday in Paris. He was 90 years old. Teju Cole was among the chorus of writers and fans who took to social media to pay tribute to the...
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Book Excerpt | Binti Home | by Nnedi Okoafor
The long-awaited sequel to Binti comes out in a few weeks. Ahead of the official release, an excerpt of the story was published on io9.gizmodo.com. At the end of book one, Binti arrives at Oomza...
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