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January 21, 2021

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

January 21, 2021

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

January 21, 2021

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

January 18, 2021

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.

January 18, 2021

The residency will be held in October 2021.

January 18, 2021

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

January 15, 2021

Read her short story, “Olikoye,” and you might win.

January 11, 2021

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

January 11, 2021

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

January 11, 2021

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.

January 11, 2021

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

January 11, 2021

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.

January 7, 2021

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.

January 7, 2021

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

January 6, 2021

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.

December 30, 2020

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.

December 30, 2020

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

December 26, 2020

Featuring a selection of its published works, this year’s edition, Issue 00, is free. The magazine is giving away 200 copies to readers.

December 26, 2020

The Fellowships are open to writers “who have not yet contracted to publish a book.”

December 26, 2020

Guest-edited by Gbenga Adesina, Mapule Mohulatsi, and Esther Karin Mngodo, it features fiction, poetry, essays, and photography by 19 contributors.

January 21, 2021

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

January 21, 2021

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

January 21, 2021

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

January 18, 2021

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.

January 18, 2021

The residency will be held in October 2021.

January 18, 2021

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

January 15, 2021

Read her short story, “Olikoye,” and you might win.

January 11, 2021

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

January 11, 2021

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

January 11, 2021

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.

January 11, 2021

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

January 11, 2021

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.

January 7, 2021

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.

January 7, 2021

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

January 6, 2021

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.

December 30, 2020

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.

December 30, 2020

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

December 26, 2020

Featuring a selection of its published works, this year’s edition, Issue 00, is free. The magazine is giving away 200 copies to readers.

December 26, 2020

The Fellowships are open to writers “who have not yet contracted to publish a book.”

December 26, 2020

Guest-edited by Gbenga Adesina, Mapule Mohulatsi, and Esther Karin Mngodo, it features fiction, poetry, essays, and photography by 19 contributors.

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