Akwaeke Emezi’s novel Pet is on the longlist for the National Book Awards 2019 in the Young People’s Literature category announced on September 16, 2019.…
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Irenosen Okojie’s “Nudibranch” out on November 7.
Irenosen Okojie’s newest short story collection Nudibranch makes its debut out on November 7, 2019. Irenosen Okojie’s writing has featured in The New York Times,…
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Meet the African writers for the Iowa International Writing Program 2019.
Batsirai Chigama, Shadreck Chikoti, Soukaina Habiballah, Tade Ipadeola, Amira-Géhanne Khalfallah, Samuel Menghesteab, Martha Mukaiwa, and Yamkela Tywakadi are the African writers to take part in…
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Nigeria Prize for Literature 2019 shortlist announced in Lagos.
Jude Idada, Dunni Olatunde, and O T Begho are the three writers on the Nigeria Prize for Literature 2019 shortlist announced in Lagos, Nigeria on…
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Yejide Kilanko on Canada’s Guernica Prize for Literary Fiction 2019 shortlist.
Yejide Kilanko is on the shortlist for the Guernica Prize for Literary Fiction 2019 announced on September 3, 2019. The Guernica Prize for Literary Fiction,…
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Exclusive: Caine Prize for African Writing withdraws Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor’s short story.
The Caine Prize for African Writing has withdrawn Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor’s short story All Our Lives, which was on the 2019 shortlist, for “failure to…
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Bernardine Evaristo, Chigozie Obioma on the Booker Prize 2019 shortlist.
Bernardine Evaristo and Chigozie Obioma are on the Booker Prize 2019 shortlist announced today, September 3, 2019. The Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary…
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Literary festivals across Africa you can attend in September 2019.
We share with you a list of literary festivals you can attend across Africa in September 2019. September might be the most hectic month on…
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Dami Ajayi and Toni Kan give us new literary journal, “The Lagos Review”.
The Lagos Review, a new literary journal founded by Dami Ajayi and Toni Kan, makes its official debut today September 1, 2019. Dami Ajayi and…
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EC Osondu is US’s BOA Short Story Fiction Prize 2019 winner.
EC Osondu has been announced as the winner of the BOA Short Story Fiction Prize 2019 today, August 20, 2019, for his short story Alien…
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Chigozie Obioma is US Digital Book World 2019 Awards Finalist.
Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra Of Minorities is a finalist at the Digital Book World 2019 Awards announced on August 13, 2019. Digital Book World is…
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Isha Sesay’s “Beneath the Tamarind Tree” focuses on the Chibok Girls.
Isha Sesay’s first book Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram was published by Harper Collins…
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Resoketswe Manenzhe, Frances Ogamba win Writivism awards in Kampala, Uganda.
Resoketswe Manenzhe and Frances Ogamba are the winners of the Writivism Short Story Prize 2019 and Koffi Addo Creative Nonfiction Prize 2019 announced in Kampala,…
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Narrative Landscape Press announces a new illustrator competition (Nigerian women only).
On August 8, 2019, Narrative Landscape Press announced an illustrator competition where the winner pockets N100,000. Narrative Landscape Press, founded by Eghosa Imasuen and Anwuli…
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Tade Thompson’s “The Rosewater Insurrection” came out on March 12.
Tade Thompson’s The Rosewater Insurrection, the second in the Wormwood Trilogy series, became available to the reading public on March 12, 2019. On July 17,…
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