Search Results for: 20.35 africa

February 26, 2024

20.35 Africa Calls for Submissions to Volume 7, Guest-Edited by Thea Matthews & Kwame Opoku-Duku

Submit to 20.35 Africa Poetry Series Vol. 6, Guest-edited by Nick Makoha & Safia Jama

Apply To Be an Editorial Intern at 20.35 Africa

The first internship is for graphic design and the second is editorial.

Introduction to 20.35 Africa Vol. V: “An Adoption of Language to Contain This Violence”

These “conversations are as absurd as they are beautiful,” writes the poetry series’ managing editor Precious Okpechi. “This is what literature does: bare life’s absurdity and beauty.”

Ebenezer Agu on 20.35 Africa & Curating New Poetry

“It’s not just about developing platforms for African poets. What is the bigger picture?” asks the Nigerian poet and editor of the collective. “We are thinking of training, models that feed capacity, that enhance their craft and careers.”

Hauwa Shaffii Nuhu

March 21, 2022

Chibuihe Achimba & Sara Elkamel to Guest-edit 20.35 Africa Poetry Series’ Vol. 5

The series is now open to submissions.

20.35 Africa

August 20, 2021

Introduction to 20.35 Africa Vol. IV: “The Opportunity to Read African Poetry Along Language Aesthetics”

“What we bring is a seminal thinking of poetry,” writes the poetry series’ editor-in-chief Ebenezer Agu. “We must recognize the beauty and complexity of this transcreation.”

20.35 Africa

May 13, 2021

20.35 Africa Launches GoFundMe Campaign for Mentorship Program

By creating a space to both nurture and pay emerging voices, 20.35 Africa can continue to stand as a home for robust literary support.

20.35 Africa

February 4, 2021

Submit to Vol. 4 of 20.35 Africa Poetry, Guest-edited by Nadra Mabrouk & K. Eltinae

The anthology is open to African poets between the ages of 20, or who would be 20 by the time of publication, and 35.

Paula Willie-Okafor

January 11, 2021

Nadra Mabrouk & K. Eltinaé to Guest-Edit 20.35 Africa Poetry’s Vol. 4

By publishing poets both at the center and in the margins of the scene, 20.35 Africa has become a major resource institution for African poets.

Uzoma Ihejirika

January 9, 2021

20.35 Africa Vol. III Review—The Pain Won’t Go Away

These poems hold some of the most visceral and philosophical stanzas you’ll read in any anthology, in any country.

Emmanuel Esomnofu

August 5, 2023

“Creating a New Tradition in African Poetry”

20.35 Africa Vol. VI, edited by Nick Makoha and Safia Jama, is introduced by the series’ managing editor Precious Okpechi: “The poets understand that history evolves with us.”

20.35 Africa

November 4, 2022

After 2 Years Covering African Literature, Open Country Mag Expands into Film & TV

Even as we cross industries, our angle of storytelling remains to be revelatory, and our style literary.

Otosirieze

April 8, 2022

The Next Generation of African Literature

Originally planned for December 2021, to mark our first anniversary, our in-depth special issue profiles 16 African writers and curators who have impacted, disrupted, reshaped, and even created literary culture in the last five years.

Otosirieze

August 18, 2021

Chandelle Books to Publish USA & Africa Editions of Echezonachukwu Nduka’s Waterman

The poetry collection was first published by Griots Lounge Publishing Canada.

Uchenna Emelife

September 18, 2024

“This Grasping for Hope Walks with Us”

20.35 Africa Vol. VII, guest-edited by Kwame Opoku-Duku, is introduced by managing editor Precious Okpechi: “A sense of belonging permeates the poems in this anthology, an acceptance of one’s place in a flawed world.”

20.35 Africa

June 2, 2021

Itiola Jones Receives Fellowship from Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing

The 20.35 Africa collective member will use the time to finish her collection of poetry.

Paula Willie-Okafor

August 5, 2024

A Lack in Liberian Literature

There is no literary bookstore in Africa’s oldest modern country. But, after civil wars and an epidemic, its writers are writing, and hoping.

Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera

July 26, 2024

Aiwanose Odafen’s Duology of Womanhood

For the Nigerian novelist, women’s lives are the plot. With Tomorrow I Become a Woman and We Were Girls Once, the first two books in a planned cross-generational trilogy, she takes us into the burdens of marriage, motherhood, ethnicity, and class.

Iheoma Uzomba

April 9, 2024

“Thinking Through Tremor”

Morality as an uncanny city in Teju Cole’s second novel: “And if we are to think of music as a sort of shield for him, then we are invited to think of his dead friend as having once played that same role in his life.”

Reyumeh Ejue

February 26, 2024

20.35 Africa Calls for Submissions to Volume 7, Guest-Edited by Thea Matthews & Kwame Opoku-Duku

20.35 Africa

February 16, 2023

Submit to 20.35 Africa Poetry Series Vol. 6, Guest-edited by Nick Makoha & Safia Jama

20.35 Africa

October 13, 2022

Apply To Be an Editorial Intern at 20.35 Africa

The first internship is for graphic design and the second is editorial.

20.35 Africa

September 17, 2022

Introduction to 20.35 Africa Vol. V: “An Adoption of Language to Contain This Violence”

These “conversations are as absurd as they are beautiful,” writes the poetry series’ managing editor Precious Okpechi. “This is what literature does: bare life’s absurdity and beauty.”

20.35 Africa

April 9, 2022

Ebenezer Agu on 20.35 Africa & Curating New Poetry

Hauwa Shaffii Nuhu

March 21, 2022

Chibuihe Achimba & Sara Elkamel to Guest-edit 20.35 Africa Poetry Series’ Vol. 5

The series is now open to submissions.

20.35 Africa

August 20, 2021

Introduction to 20.35 Africa Vol. IV: “The Opportunity to Read African Poetry Along Language Aesthetics”

“What we bring is a seminal thinking of poetry,” writes the poetry series’ editor-in-chief Ebenezer Agu. “We must recognize the beauty and complexity of this transcreation.”

20.35 Africa

May 13, 2021

20.35 Africa Launches GoFundMe Campaign for Mentorship Program

By creating a space to both nurture and pay emerging voices, 20.35 Africa can continue to stand as a home for robust literary support.

20.35 Africa

February 4, 2021

Submit to Vol. 4 of 20.35 Africa Poetry, Guest-edited by Nadra Mabrouk & K. Eltinae

The anthology is open to African poets between the ages of 20, or who would be 20 by the time of publication, and 35.

Paula Willie-Okafor

January 11, 2021

Nadra Mabrouk & K. Eltinaé to Guest-Edit 20.35 Africa Poetry’s Vol. 4

By publishing poets both at the center and in the margins of the scene, 20.35 Africa has become a major resource institution for African poets.

Uzoma Ihejirika

January 9, 2021

20.35 Africa Vol. III Review—The Pain Won’t Go Away

These poems hold some of the most visceral and philosophical stanzas you’ll read in any anthology, in any country.

Emmanuel Esomnofu

August 5, 2023

“Creating a New Tradition in African Poetry”

20.35 Africa Vol. VI, edited by Nick Makoha and Safia Jama, is introduced by the series’ managing editor Precious Okpechi: “The poets understand that history evolves with us.”