by Uzoma Ihejirika
Winners will be published in the journal and receive $1,000. The deadline for submissions is 31 March 2021.
Uzoma Ihejirika
Uzoma Ihejirika is a staff writer for Open Country Mag. He is a journalist. He is an editor for the AfroAnthology Series and a copy editor for Minority Africa. An alumnus of the 2015 Writivism Creative Writing Workshop and the 2019 Ake Arts and Book Festival Fiction Workshop, he was on the longlist for the 2019 Awele Creative Trust Award. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming on Lolwe, Music in Africa, Bakwa Magazine, and can also be found on Medium.
Posts by Uzoma Ihejirika
by Uzoma Ihejirika
“I knew it was a strange book,” he writes. “What did I hope for it? That it would find a few good readers.”
by Uzoma Ihejirika
The book, which won the Little, Brown/UEA Crime Fiction Award in 2019, is the first in an investigative series focused on Dr Philip K. Taiwo.
by Uzoma Ihejirika
Interested writers, publishers, and readers with books for children aged 6-12, that fit any of the 17 SDGs, are encouraged to apply.
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The magazine wants to “chronicle the shift from mediocrity to success.”
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. . . to be guest-edited by Elfreda Tetteh, Akhim Alexis, and Stephanie Wanga.
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It is the 10th novel by the Tanzanian author, who was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1996.
by Uzoma Ihejirika
It is an “unsettling tale of murder in a country whose dead slaves are shackled with stories that must be heard.”
by Uzoma Ihejirika
The Zimbabwean novelist, most recently on the December 2020 cover of Open Country Mag, was arrested last year for protesting in Harare.
by Uzoma Ihejirika
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.
