USA

April 30, 2021

Teju Cole’s Essays in Black Paper Seek Humanity in Darkness

It is the author and photographer’s eighth book and second collection of essays.

In Golden Apple of the Sun, Teju Cole Turns His Kitchen into Art

The text and photographic sequences are in the still life tradition of Chardin, Cezanne, and the Dutch masters, as well as the contemporary photographers Laura Letinsky and Jan Groover.

Jowhor Ile & Adachioma Ezeano Win O. Henry Prizes 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.

Schiavo Library to Host Echezonachukwu Nduka for US National Poetry Month

The acclaimed Nigerian poet and pianist will discuss his poetry collections, Chrysanthemums for Wide-eyed Ghosts and Waterman.

Ladan Osman & Tope Folarin Win Whiting Awards

“Osman’s dazzling and incisive poetry creates vibrant connections between generations of women,” said the committee. “Folarin’s fable-like novel is painful in its examination of the way ready-made beliefs are overlaid onto the minds of children.”

Uzoma Ihejirika

April 8, 2021

Kemi Alabi’s Manuscript, Against Heaven, Wins Academy of American Poets First Book Award

The American poet Claudia Rankine, who picked it as winner, called it “energetic and brilliant.”

Ernest Ogunyemi

March 19, 2021

Ben Okri & Skepta Feature on Tony Allen’s “Cosmosis”

The Booker Prize winner appears on the first song off There Is No End, a posthumous album celebrating the late Afrobeat drummer.

Emmanuel Esomnofu

March 15, 2021

Romeo Oriogun & Sulaiman Addonia Shortlisted for 2021 Lambda Awards

The Nigerian poet’s Sacrament of Bodies is nominated in the Gay Poetry category, & the Eritrean-Ethiopian novelist’s Silence Is My Mother Tongue is in Bisexual Fiction.

Otosirieze

March 13, 2021

Chinelo Okparanta’s Next Novel, Harry Sylvester Bird, Arrives 2022

The book, about a conservative White American man, is a major departure for the acclaimed novelist, best known for her stories about queer Nigerian women.

Otosirieze

February 16, 2021

5 Magazines Currently Accepting Submissions

You can submit to AGNI, Gutter, The Malahat Review, The Journal, and Wildness.

Ernest Ogunyemi

February 12, 2021

Enter for Arts & Letters Prizes, Judged by Romeo Oriogun & Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

Winners will be published in the journal and receive $1,000. The deadline for submissions is 31 March 2021.

Uzoma Ihejirika

February 9, 2021

Teju Cole Marks Open City’s 10th Anniversary

“I knew it was a strange book,” he writes. “What did I hope for it? That it would find a few good readers.”

Uzoma Ihejirika

February 9, 2021

Leila Chatti & Eloghosa Osunde to Judge Fugue Contests

The winners, in the two categories of fiction and poetry, will each receive $1000 and their work will appear in an issue of the publication.

Ernest Ogunyemi

February 4, 2021

Ben Okri Says His New Yorker Short Story Was “Hijacked by History”

The Nigerian Booker Prize winner discussed the ideas of perception and illusion in “A Wrinkle in the Realm,” and how it connects to his story collection Prayer for the Living.

Paula Willie-Okafor

January 30, 2021

Teju Cole to Headline Online Musical & Literary Concert

The novelist and photographer, who has written about the sheer indestructibility of music, “will be accompanied by works spanning nearly a millennia, including pieces by Hildegard Von Bingen and Caroline Shaw.”

Emmanuel Esomnofu

January 26, 2021

Namwali Serpell & Wayétu Moore Up for 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards

. . . for the essay collection Stranger Faces and the memoir The Dragons, The Giant, The Women, respectively.

Ernest Ogunyemi

January 24, 2021

I.S. Jones’ Chapbook, Spells of My Name, Picked for Newfound’s Emerging Poets Series

The poems, out in November 2021, “navigate language, memory, sexuality, identity, longing, and the mind’s inner workings.”

Otosirieze

January 23, 2021

The New Yorker Union Went on Daylong Strike Over Pay Dispute

“We are withholding our labor to demand fair wages and a transparent, equitable salary structure,” the Union said.

Paula Willie-Okafor

January 21, 2021

Enter for This $3,000 Prize Open to African Poets

The University of Pittsburgh’s Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Book Prize 2021.

Emmanuel Esomnofu

January 21, 2021

Enter for the Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Prizes for Fiction & Poetry

Winners of the $3,000 prizes will be chosen by Prairie Schooner editor-in-chief Kwame Dawes.

Emmanuel Esomnofu

April 30, 2021

Teju Cole’s Essays in Black Paper Seek Humanity in Darkness

It is the author and photographer’s eighth book and second collection of essays.

Paula Willie-Okafor

April 27, 2021

In Golden Apple of the Sun, Teju Cole Turns His Kitchen into Art

The text and photographic sequences are in the still life tradition of Chardin, Cezanne, and the Dutch masters, as well as the contemporary photographers Laura Letinsky and Jan Groover.

Ernest Ogunyemi

April 23, 2021

Jowhor Ile & Adachioma Ezeano Win O. Henry Prizes 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.

Ernest Ogunyemi

April 23, 2021

Schiavo Library to Host Echezonachukwu Nduka for US National Poetry Month

The acclaimed Nigerian poet and pianist will discuss his poetry collections, Chrysanthemums for Wide-eyed Ghosts and Waterman.

Uchenna Emelife

April 18, 2021

Ladan Osman & Tope Folarin Win Whiting Awards

Uzoma Ihejirika

April 8, 2021

Kemi Alabi’s Manuscript, Against Heaven, Wins Academy of American Poets First Book Award

The American poet Claudia Rankine, who picked it as winner, called it “energetic and brilliant.”

Ernest Ogunyemi

March 19, 2021

Ben Okri & Skepta Feature on Tony Allen’s “Cosmosis”

The Booker Prize winner appears on the first song off There Is No End, a posthumous album celebrating the late Afrobeat drummer.

Emmanuel Esomnofu

March 15, 2021

Romeo Oriogun & Sulaiman Addonia Shortlisted for 2021 Lambda Awards

The Nigerian poet’s Sacrament of Bodies is nominated in the Gay Poetry category, & the Eritrean-Ethiopian novelist’s Silence Is My Mother Tongue is in Bisexual Fiction.

Otosirieze

March 13, 2021

Chinelo Okparanta’s Next Novel, Harry Sylvester Bird, Arrives 2022

The book, about a conservative White American man, is a major departure for the acclaimed novelist, best known for her stories about queer Nigerian women.

Otosirieze

February 16, 2021

5 Magazines Currently Accepting Submissions

You can submit to AGNI, Gutter, The Malahat Review, The Journal, and Wildness.

Ernest Ogunyemi

February 12, 2021

Enter for Arts & Letters Prizes, Judged by Romeo Oriogun & Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

Winners will be published in the journal and receive $1,000. The deadline for submissions is 31 March 2021.

Uzoma Ihejirika

February 9, 2021

Teju Cole Marks Open City’s 10th Anniversary

“I knew it was a strange book,” he writes. “What did I hope for it? That it would find a few good readers.”

Uzoma Ihejirika

February 9, 2021

Leila Chatti & Eloghosa Osunde to Judge Fugue Contests

The winners, in the two categories of fiction and poetry, will each receive $1000 and their work will appear in an issue of the publication.

Ernest Ogunyemi

February 4, 2021

Ben Okri Says His New Yorker Short Story Was “Hijacked by History”

The Nigerian Booker Prize winner discussed the ideas of perception and illusion in “A Wrinkle in the Realm,” and how it connects to his story collection Prayer for the Living.