The Quramo Festival of Words or QFest 2022 will be hosted in Lagos, Nigeria from October 7 – 9, 2022. This year’s theme is ‘Africa Positive. The Quramo Festival of Words was first hosted by Quramo Publishing in Lagos, Nigeria in December 2019. For the period of the festival, Lagosians were treated to masterclasses, book […]
Mandla Langa’s The Lost Language of the Soul was declared the winner of the University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Writing 2022 on October 4, 2022. The UJ Debut Prize was shared by A’Eysha Kassiem and Lisa-Anne Julien. The University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Writing in English, also known as the UJ […]
The shortlists for the African Writers Awards, African Teen Writers Awards, and the Wakini Kuria Prize for Children’s Literature were announced on October 1, 2022. The African Writers Awards were conceived by the African Writers Development Trust to shed a light on some of the best emerging writing talents on the continent. Some previous winners […]
The winners of the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature 2021 were announced at a ceremony in Nairobi, Kenya on Saturday, October 1, 2022. The Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature, sponsored by Madison Group, celebrates Kenyan writers in the categories of fiction for adults, youth (young adults), and children in English and Kiswahili every two years. […]
In our continuing series, we share opportunities for those who wish to submit work be it poetry, prose, or other related arts in October 2022. These callouts are divided into journals, publishers, prizes, and education (MFAs, Fellowships, residencies). Literary magazines/journals/anthologies Ake Review Submissions for Ake Review 2022 are open. This is the last edition of […]
