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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

Lolwe Calls for Submissions to Issue 3

. . . to be guest-edited by Elfreda Tetteh, Akhim Alexis, and Stephanie Wanga.
Uzoma Ihejirika
Lolwe Issue 2 cover. Image title: Morrison’s Air. Photography: Ericke Tjiueza. Costume Design: Nicodemus Amwele, Ericke Tjiueza. Model: Jean-Claude Nazarii.

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

Dominion Anthology Contributors Lead Longlist for 2020 BSFA Awards

It includes eight Africans. Half are contributors to Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora.

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

4 Poetry Prizes That Are Currently Open

Do you have a packet of ready poems you want to send out? We have collected four poetry contests that are currently open and that you can submit to.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Photo by Trust "Tru" Katsande 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.

January 18, 2021

Nigerian Poet Wins Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize

Wale Ayinla’s To Cast a Dream will now be published by Jai-Alai Books.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Wale Ayinla. From Wale Ayinla.

January 15, 2021

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Is Hosting a Giveaway

Read her short story, “Olikoye,” and you might win.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. From Chimamanda.com.

January 11, 2021

Kobby Ben Ben’s No One Dies Yet, Set in Accra in the Year of Return, Acquired by Europa

It is an “unsettling tale of murder in a country whose dead slaves are shackled with stories that must be heard.”
Uzoma Ihejirika
Kobby Ben Ben. From Kobby Ben Ben.

January 11, 2021

Tsitsi Dangarembga Wins 2021 PEN Award for Freedom of Expression

The Zimbabwean novelist, most recently on the December 2020 cover of Open Country Mag, was arrested last year for protesting in Harare.
Uzoma Ihejirika
Tsitsi Dangarembga.

January 11, 2021

Nadra Mabrouk & K. Eltinaé to Guest-Edit 20.35 Africa Poetry’s Vol. 4

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.
Uzoma Ihejirika
Nadra Mabrouk by Kat Alvarez.

January 11, 2021

Bernardine Evaristo’s Project Brings Overlooked Black British Authors Back to Print

The series, “Black Britain: Writing Back,” launches with books by Jacqueline Roy, SI Martin, CLR James, Nicola Williams, Judith Bryan, and Mike Phillips.
Paula Willie-Okafor

January 11, 2021

Get Published in Of This Our Country, with Chimamanda Adichie & Chigozie Obioma

The anthology comes with an essay contest, a chance to be featured alongside Sefi Atta, Helon Habila, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Abi Daré, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, and Inua Ellams.
Otosirieze
Some writers featured in Of This Our Country.

January 7, 2021

New Book Collects Columns by Noni Jabavu, South Africa’s Pioneering Black Female Memoirist

The author of the memoirs Drawn in Colour: African Contrasts and The Ochre People: Scenes from a South African Life and editor of The New Strand was ahead of her time.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Noni Jabavu: A Stranger at Home.

January 7, 2021

Leila Chatti Joins Poetry Faculty at UW-Madison

From Spring 2021, the Tunisian American will resume as the Mendota Lecturer in Poetry.
Uzoma Ihejirika
Leila Chatti. Credit: Copper Canyon Press.

January 6, 2021

Aminatta Forna’s Essays in The Window Seat Explore Movement, Trauma, & Memory

The Sierra Leonean British author examines race in America through the lens of an African and what it means to walk the world in a Black woman’s body.
Ernest Ogunyemi
The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion by Aminatta Forna.

December 30, 2020

Toni Morrison’s Personal Collection of 1,200+ Books

They include books by and about Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Gayl Jones, Henry Dumas, James Baldwin, Mark Twain, the Obamas, and the Clintons.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Toni Morrison's personal library. Credit: Brown Harris Stevens.

December 30, 2020

Jerry Chiemeke’s Debut, Dreaming of Ways to Understand You, Out in Print

The story collection “chronicles the dreams and desperations of a disillusioned demographic.”
Otosirieze
Dreaming of Ways to Understand You by Jerry Chiemeke. Credit: Jerry Chiemeke.

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

Lolwe Issue 2 cover. Image title: Morrison’s Air. Photography: Ericke Tjiueza. Costume Design: Nicodemus Amwele, Ericke Tjiueza. Model: Jean-Claude Nazarii.

Lolwe Calls for Submissions to Issue 3

. . . to be guest-edited by Elfreda Tetteh, Akhim Alexis, and Stephanie Wanga.
Uzoma Ihejirika

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

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

Dominion Anthology Contributors Lead Longlist for 2020 BSFA Awards

It includes eight Africans. Half are contributors to Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora.
Ernest Ogunyemi

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 Trust "Tru" Katsande on Unsplash.

4 Poetry Prizes That Are Currently Open

Do you have a packet of ready poems you want to send out? We have collected four poetry contests that are currently open and that you can submit to.
Ernest Ogunyemi

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

January 18, 2021

Wale Ayinla. From Wale Ayinla.

Nigerian Poet Wins Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize

Wale Ayinla’s To Cast a Dream will now be published by Jai-Alai Books.
Ernest Ogunyemi

January 15, 2021

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. From Chimamanda.com.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Is Hosting a Giveaway

Read her short story, “Olikoye,” and you might win.
Paula Willie-Okafor

January 11, 2021

Kobby Ben Ben. From Kobby Ben Ben.

Kobby Ben Ben’s No One Dies Yet, Set in Accra in the Year of Return, Acquired by Europa

It is an “unsettling tale of murder in a country whose dead slaves are shackled with stories that must be heard.”
Uzoma Ihejirika

January 11, 2021

Tsitsi Dangarembga.

Tsitsi Dangarembga Wins 2021 PEN Award for Freedom of Expression

The Zimbabwean novelist, most recently on the December 2020 cover of Open Country Mag, was arrested last year for protesting in Harare.
Uzoma Ihejirika

January 11, 2021

Nadra Mabrouk by Kat Alvarez.

Nadra Mabrouk & K. Eltinaé to Guest-Edit 20.35 Africa Poetry’s Vol. 4

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.
Uzoma Ihejirika

January 11, 2021

Bernardine Evaristo’s Project Brings Overlooked Black British Authors Back to Print

The series, “Black Britain: Writing Back,” launches with books by Jacqueline Roy, SI Martin, CLR James, Nicola Williams, Judith Bryan, and Mike Phillips.
Paula Willie-Okafor

January 11, 2021

Some writers featured in Of This Our Country.

Get Published in Of This Our Country, with Chimamanda Adichie & Chigozie Obioma

The anthology comes with an essay contest, a chance to be featured alongside Sefi Atta, Helon Habila, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Abi Daré, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, and Inua Ellams.
Otosirieze

January 7, 2021

Noni Jabavu: A Stranger at Home.

New Book Collects Columns by Noni Jabavu, South Africa’s Pioneering Black Female Memoirist

The author of the memoirs Drawn in Colour: African Contrasts and The Ochre People: Scenes from a South African Life and editor of The New Strand was ahead of her time.
Ernest Ogunyemi

January 7, 2021

Leila Chatti. Credit: Copper Canyon Press.

Leila Chatti Joins Poetry Faculty at UW-Madison

From Spring 2021, the Tunisian American will resume as the Mendota Lecturer in Poetry.
Uzoma Ihejirika

January 6, 2021

The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion by Aminatta Forna.

Aminatta Forna’s Essays in The Window Seat Explore Movement, Trauma, & Memory

The Sierra Leonean British author examines race in America through the lens of an African and what it means to walk the world in a Black woman’s body.
Ernest Ogunyemi

December 30, 2020

Toni Morrison's personal library. Credit: Brown Harris Stevens.

Toni Morrison’s Personal Collection of 1,200+ Books

They include books by and about Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Gayl Jones, Henry Dumas, James Baldwin, Mark Twain, the Obamas, and the Clintons.
Ernest Ogunyemi

December 30, 2020

Dreaming of Ways to Understand You by Jerry Chiemeke. Credit: Jerry Chiemeke.

Jerry Chiemeke’s Debut, Dreaming of Ways to Understand You, Out in Print

The story collection “chronicles the dreams and desperations of a disillusioned demographic.”
Otosirieze

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