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July 21, 2021

Watch the Nigerian writers talk the art and state of the modern short story.

April 23, 2021

Their short stories will appear in The Best Short Stories Anthology 2021, guest-edited and introduced by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Being selected is “a thrill,” Ezeano says.

December 9, 2022

Created by Didier Lacoste and Joy Fleury, with screenplay by Ukamaka Olisakwe, Adachioma Ezeano, and Jude Idada, it will focus on the two Franco-Dahomean Wars of 1890-94. The story, said Olisakwe, looks at “how this impacted lives and the Kingdom’s long rivalry with its neighbors.”

May 13, 2022

Series Editor Jenny Minton Quigley on celebrating the short story form and the ripple effect of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s guest-editing role.

April 27, 2022

Umezurike and Okonkwo won for poetry and fiction, respectively, and Nora Nneka won for nonfiction.

April 4, 2022

Adichie, who guest-edited the 2021 anthology and is winning for the third time, was selected for her story “Zikora.”

February 14, 2022

For Valentine’s Day, we asked 28 writers—deep readers and consumers of art—to share the literary, cinematic, musical, and life stories that affect them. They opened up beautifully.

December 23, 2021

“Part of the reality of being an international student is that one is always nearly broke,” the Nigerian writer said of the $3,000 award.

September 20, 2021

Her second novel, the monumental Half of a Yellow Sun, was a major step in her singular cultural exceptionality. Fifteen years on, in Open Country Mag’s first sit-down interview, the great writer and careful thinker looks back, reckoning with her private losses and public evolution.

July 21, 2021

Watch the Nigerian writers talk the art and state of the modern short story.

April 23, 2021

Their short stories will appear in The Best Short Stories Anthology 2021, guest-edited and introduced by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Being selected is “a thrill,” Ezeano says.

December 9, 2022

Created by Didier Lacoste and Joy Fleury, with screenplay by Ukamaka Olisakwe, Adachioma Ezeano, and Jude Idada, it will focus on the two Franco-Dahomean Wars of 1890-94. The story, said Olisakwe, looks at “how this impacted lives and the Kingdom’s long rivalry with its neighbors.”

May 13, 2022

Series Editor Jenny Minton Quigley on celebrating the short story form and the ripple effect of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s guest-editing role.

April 27, 2022

Umezurike and Okonkwo won for poetry and fiction, respectively, and Nora Nneka won for nonfiction.

April 4, 2022

Adichie, who guest-edited the 2021 anthology and is winning for the third time, was selected for her story “Zikora.”

February 14, 2022

For Valentine’s Day, we asked 28 writers—deep readers and consumers of art—to share the literary, cinematic, musical, and life stories that affect them. They opened up beautifully.

December 23, 2021

“Part of the reality of being an international student is that one is always nearly broke,” the Nigerian writer said of the $3,000 award.

September 20, 2021

Her second novel, the monumental Half of a Yellow Sun, was a major step in her singular cultural exceptionality. Fifteen years on, in Open Country Mag’s first sit-down interview, the great writer and careful thinker looks back, reckoning with her private losses and public evolution.

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