Ibadan Poetry Foundation has announced its shortlist for the Ibadan Poetry Foundation Residency 2016. Ibadan Poetry Foundation is an independent literary organisation. It is committed…
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The Short Story Day Africa workshops, called the 2016 Migrations Flow Workshop, will be hosted in cities across the continent at the Goethe Institut offices.…
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Four Nigerian writers Muriola Awosemo, Abdullahi Lawan Kangala, Okwudili Nebeolisa and David Ishaya Osu are the May/June 2016 recipients of the Ebedi International Writers Residency.…
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Tsitsi Dangarembga, Lauren Ann Beukes, Victor Ehighale Ehikhamenor, Yared Zeleke and Fathy Adly Salama are the Artists In Residency recipients at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio…
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Chimamanda Adichie will be the lead at the Farafina Trust creative writing workshop in Lagos, Nigeria from June 21 to July 1, 2016. She will be…
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Pemi Aguda is the first recipient of the new residency for African writers announced today by the Centre for African Cultural Excellence (CACE) and South…
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The annual Caine Prize Workshop ended yesterday at the Chaminuka Lodge near Lusaka, Zambia. The participants included previous winners of the Caine Prize, those shortlisted…
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Over a year ago, I started writing a column in the literary pages of the Saturday Nation. In that time, the bulk of the emails…
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It was a fun time last week at the Eco Sanaa Terrace, Mikocheni B in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania as a writers and editors’ workshop…
View More Images from the African Writer’s Trust and CDEA Dar es Salaam workshopSankara Communication will let award-winning novelist, short-story writer, 2015 Etisalat Prize for Fiction judge and Saturday Nation columnist Zukiswa Wanner decide that in her bi-monthly…
View More SO YOU THINK YOU CAN WRITE FICTION?Storymoja Publishers is known worldwide for their festival the Storymoja Festival that happens in September every year. The thing about them is that as the…
View More Storymoja kick off the year with a bangThe young writers who will be taking part in the Writivism workshops in fiction, non-fiction and poetry were announced on Friday afternoon at the Ake…
View More Writivism Workshop 2016 participants announced at Ake Festival #AkeFest205The British Council hosted Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, Eghosa Imasuen and Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, three heavyweights in new African writing at the Lagos National Theatre on Friday…
View More British Council’s publishing Creative Hustle at the Lagos Theatre #LABAF2015We all know the Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation which ensures that poetry gets its space at the literature table on the African continent. They have…
View More Babishai Niwe poetry mentorship program for May 2016So what were you doing when you were ten years old? On my part, I was trying to figure out how the hell to navigate…
View More 10 year old Chela roots for libraries (embarrassing our adult selves)