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July 30, 2021

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.
Agbowó
Agbowo Issue 4 - Chaos

July 26, 2021

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
Meron Hadero. Credit: Meron Hadero.

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
Chapbooks from African Poetry Book Fund's box set Nne. Credit: Kimberly Ann Southwick. From blog.pshares.org.

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
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God, both from Heinemann's African Writers Series, edited by Achebe and published by James Currey. Credit: Brown Bag Books.

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
Open Country Mag Hosts Lolwe and Doek!

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
Lolwe Issue 3. Photo credit: "young and hurt" by Teddy Tavan.

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The £1,000 award, founded by the Nigerian writer Onyeka Nwelue, is for unpublished manuscripts.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
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God, both from Heinemann's African Writers Series, edited by Achebe and published by James Currey. Credit: Brown Bag Books.

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
Rémy Ngamije by Abantu Festival.

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
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nane).

May 17, 2021

Register for the Ongoing Jacana People’s Africa Month Festival of Writers

The South African publisher extends its “Don’t Shut Up” conversations, with six panels on the state of the continent.
Jacana Media
A Jacana Media event.

March 5, 2021

The Afritondo Short Story Prize Shortlist

“This year’s short story prize was centred on Identity,” the organisers said. “The judges selected stories that were original, well crafted, and reflected the theme of the prize.”
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Yellow Means Stay, the Afritondo Prize 2020 anthology.

February 22, 2021

Enrol for SBMEN’s Workshop for Editors and Writers

It will be facilitated by accomplished experts including Otosirieze Obi-Young, Omolola Opatayo, and Anwuli Ojogwu, co-founder of SBMEN.
Society for Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN)
An SBMEN workshop in progress in Lagos. Credit: Anwuli Ojogwu.

February 22, 2021

“The World Is Paying Attention”: 6 African Writers on BSFA Awards Shortlist

Two of the finalists appear in Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, co-edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora.

February 18, 2021

Apply to Africa in Dialogue’s Internship Program

Available positions include contributing interviewers for fiction, for poetry, and for creative nonfiction; contributing editor; and social media manager.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Photo by Jeff Sheldon on Unsplash.

February 12, 2021

The Onyeka Nwelue Show Returns with Lidudumalingani Episode

Watch season 2’s pilot with the South African writer in which they discuss writing, race, xenophobia, and filmmaking.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Lidudumalingani on The Onyeka Nwelue Show.

February 12, 2021

“Long Talk”: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor & Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Their conversation, “The Root of Nations,” will re-examine what it means to formulate a state via the incredibly important but rarely considered female gaze.
A Long House
Jennifer Makumbi by Danny Moran.

February 4, 2021

UN to Launch African SDGs Book Club with 6 Literary Partners

Interested writers, publishers, and readers with books for children aged 6-12, that fit any of the 17 SDGs, are encouraged to apply.
Uzoma Ihejirika
@alyssasieb on Nappy.co.

February 1, 2021

The Shallow Tales Review Releases Issue 31

The magazine wants to “chronicle the shift from mediocrity to success.”
Uzoma Ihejirika
The Shallow Tales Review's Issue 31.

July 30, 2021

Agbowo Issue 4 - Chaos

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.
Agbowó

July 26, 2021

Meron Hadero. Credit: Meron Hadero.

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

Chapbooks from African Poetry Book Fund's box set Nne. Credit: Kimberly Ann Southwick. From blog.pshares.org.

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

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God, both from Heinemann's African Writers Series, edited by Achebe and published by James Currey. Credit: Brown Bag Books.

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!

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 Issue 3. Photo credit: "young and hurt" by Teddy Tavan.

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

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God, both from Heinemann's African Writers Series, edited by Achebe and published by James Currey. Credit: Brown Bag Books.

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

Rémy Ngamije by Abantu Festival.

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

New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nane).

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

May 17, 2021

A Jacana Media event.

Register for the Ongoing Jacana People’s Africa Month Festival of Writers

The South African publisher extends its “Don’t Shut Up” conversations, with six panels on the state of the continent.
Jacana Media

March 5, 2021

Yellow Means Stay, the Afritondo Prize 2020 anthology.

The Afritondo Short Story Prize Shortlist

“This year’s short story prize was centred on Identity,” the organisers said. “The judges selected stories that were original, well crafted, and reflected the theme of the prize.”
Emmanuel Esomnofu

February 22, 2021

An SBMEN workshop in progress in Lagos. Credit: Anwuli Ojogwu.

Enrol for SBMEN’s Workshop for Editors and Writers

It will be facilitated by accomplished experts including Otosirieze Obi-Young, Omolola Opatayo, and Anwuli Ojogwu, co-founder of SBMEN.
Society for Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN)

February 22, 2021

Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora.

“The World Is Paying Attention”: 6 African Writers on BSFA Awards Shortlist

Two of the finalists appear in Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, co-edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki.
Ernest Ogunyemi

February 18, 2021

Photo by Jeff Sheldon on Unsplash.

Apply to Africa in Dialogue’s Internship Program

Available positions include contributing interviewers for fiction, for poetry, and for creative nonfiction; contributing editor; and social media manager.
Ernest Ogunyemi

February 12, 2021

Lidudumalingani on The Onyeka Nwelue Show.

The Onyeka Nwelue Show Returns with Lidudumalingani Episode

Watch season 2’s pilot with the South African writer in which they discuss writing, race, xenophobia, and filmmaking.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

February 12, 2021

Jennifer Makumbi by Danny Moran.

“Long Talk”: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor & Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Their conversation, “The Root of Nations,” will re-examine what it means to formulate a state via the incredibly important but rarely considered female gaze.
A Long House

February 4, 2021

@alyssasieb on Nappy.co.

UN to Launch African SDGs Book Club with 6 Literary Partners

Interested writers, publishers, and readers with books for children aged 6-12, that fit any of the 17 SDGs, are encouraged to apply.
Uzoma Ihejirika

February 1, 2021

The Shallow Tales Review's Issue 31.

The Shallow Tales Review Releases Issue 31

The magazine wants to “chronicle the shift from mediocrity to success.”
Uzoma Ihejirika

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