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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
Echezonachukwu Nduka.

April 18, 2021

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
Ladan Osman by Joe Penney.

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
Kemi Alabi by Ally Almore.

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
Tony Allen by Bernard Benant.

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
Romeo Oriogun by Romeo Oriogun.

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
Chinelo Okparanta. From KitschMix.

February 16, 2021

5 Magazines Currently Accepting Submissions

You can submit to AGNI, Gutter, The Malahat Review, The Journal, and Wildness.
Ernest Ogunyemi
AGNI 79; 2014.

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
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma by Gorealr Photography.

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
Open City; from @AEAkinwumi on Twitter.

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
Fugue, issue 49 (2015).

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
Ben Okri by Georgina Chapel Associates via Tank Magazine.

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
Teju Cole by Teju Cole.

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
Namwali Serpell by Peg Skorpinski.

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
I.S. Jones by Nicholas Nichols.

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
A copy of The New Yorker. Credit: AbeBooks.

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
Photo by Trust "Tru" Katsande on Unsplash.

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
Photo by Jeff Sheldon on Unsplash.

January 18, 2021

Apply to the Bob Holman Poetry Residency

The residency will be held in October 2021.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Photo by Jeff Sheldon on Unsplash.

April 23, 2021

Echezonachukwu Nduka.

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 by Joe Penney.

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 by Ally Almore.

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

Tony Allen by Bernard Benant.

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 by Romeo Oriogun.

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. From KitschMix.

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

AGNI 79; 2014.

5 Magazines Currently Accepting Submissions

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

February 12, 2021

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma by Gorealr Photography.

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

Open City; from @AEAkinwumi on Twitter.

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

Fugue, issue 49 (2015).

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 by Georgina Chapel Associates via Tank Magazine.

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 by Teju Cole.

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 by Peg Skorpinski.

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 by Nicholas Nichols.

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

A copy of The New Yorker. Credit: AbeBooks.

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

Photo by Trust "Tru" Katsande on Unsplash.

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

Photo by Jeff Sheldon on Unsplash.

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

January 18, 2021

Photo by Jeff Sheldon on Unsplash.

Apply to the Bob Holman Poetry Residency

The residency will be held in October 2021.
Ernest Ogunyemi

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