Africa

January 12, 2022

Lolwe Magazine Releases Issue 4

The Pan-African publication’s newest includes writing and photography. Read the editorial note by its founder Troy Onyango.

Submit to Bakwa’s “Woman Issue,” Guest-edited by Anwuli Ojogwu

The Nommo Awards, for African Speculative Fiction, Announces 2021 Winners

Novelist Akwaeke Emezi and editor Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki are among this year’s honorees of the African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS).

Brunel Prize to Be Renamed Evaristo Prize, as APBF Takes Over

After 10 years running it, Bernardine Evaristo steps down. “Having this prize named after her honors her, but more than that, it honors the prize,” said APBF founder Kwame Dawes.

The K & L Prize, for U-25 Writers, Goes to NYSC Member

Mustapha Enesi, a recent graduate and National Youth Service corps member, won for his short story “Kesandu.” The $1,000 prize was this year themed “Madness.”

Submit to World Literature Today’s “New African Voices” Portfolio

It is guest-edited by Mahtem Shiferraw.

A Long House Announces the Rajat Neogy Editorial Fellowship

The fellowship is named after Rajat Neogy, the Ugandan writer and editor who founded Transition Magazine at age 22.

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.”

Dgëku, a Literary Magazine for Queer Africans, Calls for Submissions

The new publication pays $150 for prose pieces of 3,000 words or more, $30 for an individual poem, and $100 maximum for a suite of poems.

Agbowó Magazine Releases Issue 4

Themed Chaos, the 19 contributors cast doubts on the mythological truism of the act of creation, and by extension creativity.

Meron Hadero Wins AKO Caine Prize, for “Beautiful Tale” of Ethiopia’s “Young, Ingenuous Generation”

The writer, previously shortlisted for the £10,000 award in 2019, is the first winner from her country. Her story, “The Street Sweep,” “negotiates the imported power dynamics of foreign aid in Addis Ababa.”

The AKO Caine Prize

July 8, 2021

TVO TRIBE Announces 2021 Anniversary Programme

Our team of Pan-African creatives has put together a summit, sessions, and a documentary screening.

TVO TRIBE

July 2, 2021

Submit Your Collection to the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry

Submitted books must be in English.

Ernest Ogunyemi

July 2, 2021

The Africa Publishing Innovation Fund 2022 Calls for Proposals

Winning projects for the $200,000 Fund will be expected to “develop reading culture beyond the classroom in Africa.”

Ernest Ogunyemi

July 2, 2021

The James Currey Prize for Literature: The Shortlist

Five writers are in the running for the £1,000 prize money and a publication deal.

James Currey Prize for Literature

June 25, 2021

Open Country Mag Hosts Lolwe and Doek!

Watch editors Troy Onyango and Rémy Ngamije talk online magazine publishing in Africa. The Instagram Live conversation, to be moderated by Frances Ogamba, is Open Country Mag’s first public event.

Otosirieze

June 25, 2021

Lolwe Releases Issue 3

The Kenya-based magazine’s latest, featuring fiction, poetry, essays, and photography by 18 contributors, is guest-edited by the Ghanaian writer Elfreda Tetteh and the Trinidadian writer Akhim Alexis, and illustrated by the Nigerian artist Moje Ikpeme.

Lolwe

June 17, 2021

The James Currey Prize for Literature 2021: The Longlist

The £1,000 award, founded by the Nigerian writer Onyeka Nwelue, is for unpublished manuscripts.

James Currey Prize for Literature

June 3, 2021

Troy Onyango, Rémy Ngamije Lead “Revitalizing” AKO Caine Prize Shortlist

After a key change to the prize rules, three of the five finalists are published by new African literary magazines: Namibia’s first literary magazine Doek!, Kenya’s Lolwe, and Uganda’s Ibua Journal.

Ernest Ogunyemi

May 31, 2021

13 Poets in APBF’s 2021 Chapbook Box Set Nane

Jeremy T. Karn’s chapbook Miryam Magdalit explores grief and memory in war-time Liberia. Hauwa Shaffii Nuhu’s Sister looks at guilt, shame, and love in a family dynamic. It “feels like a dream,” Nuhu says.

Ernest Ogunyemi

January 12, 2022

Lolwe Magazine Releases Issue 4

The Pan-African publication’s newest includes writing and photography. Read the editorial note by its founder Troy Onyango.

Lolwe

December 23, 2021

Submit to Bakwa’s “Woman Issue,” Guest-edited by Anwuli Ojogwu

Paula Willie-Okafor

December 23, 2021

The Nommo Awards, for African Speculative Fiction, Announces 2021 Winners

Novelist Akwaeke Emezi and editor Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki are among this year’s honorees of the African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS).

Paula Willie-Okafor

December 21, 2021

Brunel Prize to Be Renamed Evaristo Prize, as APBF Takes Over

After 10 years running it, Bernardine Evaristo steps down. “Having this prize named after her honors her, but more than that, it honors the prize,” said APBF founder Kwame Dawes.

Emmanuel Esomnofu

November 23, 2021

The K & L Prize, for U-25 Writers, Goes to NYSC Member

Mustapha Enesi, a recent graduate and National Youth Service corps member, won for his short story “Kesandu.” The $1,000 prize was this year themed “Madness.”

Paula Willie-Okafor

October 15, 2021

Submit to World Literature Today’s “New African Voices” Portfolio

It is guest-edited by Mahtem Shiferraw.

Open Country Mag

September 17, 2021

A Long House Announces the Rajat Neogy Editorial Fellowship

The fellowship is named after Rajat Neogy, the Ugandan writer and editor who founded Transition Magazine at age 22.

A Long House

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.”