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September 17, 2022

The UnSerious Collective Announces 2022 Fellowship Winners

Each of the five fellows will receive N50,000.
Open Country Mag
The Origin of Name; photo by Adedayo Agarau.

July 25, 2022

Lolwe Calls for Submissions to Issue 6

The issue will be guest-edited by Tlotlo Tsamaase, Frazier Michael, and Lucky Grace. It opens for submissions on August 1.
Lolwe
Lolwe Issue 3. Photo credit: "young and hurt" by Teddy Tavan.

July 22, 2022

Enter for Simon & Schuster’s $50,000 Books Like Us First Novel Contest

Applicants will submit 25 pages for the first round, and eventually the full manuscript under 80,000 words.
Open Country Mag
okwiri oduor - things they lost - Scribner slash Tristan Offit slash Jacket Art by Lisa Wright

July 16, 2022

Join the Booker Prize Book Club Challenge

Does your book club think it has what it takes to be Booker Prize judges? Would you like to attend this year’s Booker Prize ceremony?
The Booker Prize Foundation
The 2022 Booker Prize judges (L-R): Helen Castor, Alain Mabanckou, Neil MacGregor, M. John Harrison, and Shahidha Bari. © Hugo Glendinning via the Booker Prize Foundation website.

July 4, 2022

Apply to Be Managing Editor of Conjunctions Journal at Bard College

Open Country Mag
Conjunctions, issue 68.

July 4, 2022

The Literary Laddership for Emerging African Authors Announces 2022 Fellows

The initiative, founded by the Nigerian novelist Suyi Davies Okungbowa, offers $500 to writers “to buy time, space, and resources” for their work.
Open Country Mag
Olaposi Halim. Photo from The Literary Laddership for Emerging African Authors.

July 4, 2022

The 2022 SprinNG Women Authors Prize Opens for Submissions ​

The award will select two female Nigerian authors who have published full-length books and invest N300,000 each in purchasing, distributing, and marketing them.
SprinNG
Ukamaka Olisakwe. Credit: Ukamaka Olisakwe.

May 31, 2022

Arinze Ifeakandu: Book Launch & Event Dates for God’s Children Are Little Broken Things

Including chats with Booker Prize finalist Brandon Taylor, bestselling novelist Xochitl Gonzalez, and writers Jonathan Lee, Gbenga Adesina, Ebenezer Agu, and Hannah Eko.
A Public Space
Arinze Ifeakandu by Bec Stupak Diop.

April 28, 2022

Engaging Borders Africa Announces Screenwriters for Sahel Film Making Project

Three short story authors will be paired with experienced screenwriters to produce scripts.
Engaging Borders Africa
Engaging Borders Africa announces screenwriters

April 18, 2022

Doek Literary Festival Announces Guest List, with Tsitsi Dangarembga as Headliner

Also participating are the Nigerian writer Femi Kayode, the South African writer Zukiswa Wanner, and Doek editor Remy Ngamije.
Doek! Magazine
Tsitsi Dangarembga. By Hannah Mertz in The Guardian

March 29, 2022

TAFM 2022: Owen Olowu’s Songs of Ubong Takes Grand Cheese Prize for Best Film

23 films were screened in competition at The Annual Film Mischief, a festival by The Film Rats Club. Other winners include Olabode Izy’s The Samaritan and Tosan Anyafulu’s Reflections.
The Film Rats Club
Part of the audience at The Annual Film Mischief 2022.

March 21, 2022

Chibuihe Achimba & Sara Elkamel to Guest-edit 20.35 Africa Poetry Series’ Vol. 5

The series is now open to submissions.
20.35 Africa
Sara Elkamel by Sima Diab

March 8, 2022

The Film Rats Club Announces The Annual Film Mischief Festival 2022

The organisation is devoted to low-budget indie films. The inaugural festival theme is “Less is more.”
The Film Rats Club
The Film Rats Club

February 23, 2022

Join Agbowo’s Editorial Team as a Reader

Agbowó
Agbowo issue 2 - Limits

February 23, 2022

Doek! Partners with UEA’s International Chair of Creative Writing for Literary Festival in Namibia

The Doek! Literary Festival will take place from 21-23 April 2022.
Doek! Magazine
Doek Magazine Issue 7. Cover image by Collective For Black Iranians.

February 15, 2022

SBMEN Announces Editorial Practice & Project Management Course for Feb. 2022

Society for Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN)
society of book and magazine editors of Nigeria

January 27, 2022

Engaging Borders Africa Announces Finalists

The 30 short stories have “the shared aim of changing the ways young people understand radicalization, violent extremism, and disinformation, which are key feeders of conflict and terror in Africa.”
Engaging Borders Africa
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim's novel Season of Crimson Blossoms is set in northern Nigeria, which has suffered a rise in terrorism.

January 21, 2022

Bookshop.org Announces Shortlist for New Futures Programme

It includes BAME, neurodiverse, LGBTQ+, and visually and hearing impaired as well as mental health advocates.
Midas PR
A bookshop.org store. Image by Book Culture.

January 12, 2022

Lolwe Magazine Releases Issue 4

The Pan-African publication’s newest includes writing and photography. Read the editorial note by its founder Troy Onyango.
Lolwe
Lolwe-Issue-4-Cover

January 7, 2022

Doek! Magazine Releases Issue 7

The Namibian magazine’s latest issue, Soon/Come, features contributors from three continents. Read the editorial note by its founder Remy Ngamije.
Doek! Magazine
Doek Magazine Issue 7. Cover image by Collective For Black Iranians.

September 17, 2022

The Origin of Name; photo by Adedayo Agarau.

The UnSerious Collective Announces 2022 Fellowship Winners

Each of the five fellows will receive N50,000.
Open Country Mag

July 25, 2022

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

Lolwe Calls for Submissions to Issue 6

The issue will be guest-edited by Tlotlo Tsamaase, Frazier Michael, and Lucky Grace. It opens for submissions on August 1.
Lolwe

July 22, 2022

okwiri oduor - things they lost - Scribner slash Tristan Offit slash Jacket Art by Lisa Wright

Enter for Simon & Schuster’s $50,000 Books Like Us First Novel Contest

Applicants will submit 25 pages for the first round, and eventually the full manuscript under 80,000 words.
Open Country Mag

July 16, 2022

The 2022 Booker Prize judges (L-R): Helen Castor, Alain Mabanckou, Neil MacGregor, M. John Harrison, and Shahidha Bari. © Hugo Glendinning via the Booker Prize Foundation website.

Join the Booker Prize Book Club Challenge

Does your book club think it has what it takes to be Booker Prize judges? Would you like to attend this year’s Booker Prize ceremony?
The Booker Prize Foundation

July 4, 2022

Conjunctions, issue 68.

Apply to Be Managing Editor of Conjunctions Journal at Bard College

Open Country Mag

July 4, 2022

Olaposi Halim. Photo from The Literary Laddership for Emerging African Authors.

The Literary Laddership for Emerging African Authors Announces 2022 Fellows

The initiative, founded by the Nigerian novelist Suyi Davies Okungbowa, offers $500 to writers “to buy time, space, and resources” for their work.
Open Country Mag

July 4, 2022

Ukamaka Olisakwe. Credit: Ukamaka Olisakwe.

The 2022 SprinNG Women Authors Prize Opens for Submissions ​

The award will select two female Nigerian authors who have published full-length books and invest N300,000 each in purchasing, distributing, and marketing them.
SprinNG

May 31, 2022

Arinze Ifeakandu by Bec Stupak Diop.

Arinze Ifeakandu: Book Launch & Event Dates for God’s Children Are Little Broken Things

Including chats with Booker Prize finalist Brandon Taylor, bestselling novelist Xochitl Gonzalez, and writers Jonathan Lee, Gbenga Adesina, Ebenezer Agu, and Hannah Eko.
A Public Space

April 28, 2022

Engaging Borders Africa announces screenwriters

Engaging Borders Africa Announces Screenwriters for Sahel Film Making Project

Three short story authors will be paired with experienced screenwriters to produce scripts.
Engaging Borders Africa

April 18, 2022

Tsitsi Dangarembga. By Hannah Mertz in The Guardian

Doek Literary Festival Announces Guest List, with Tsitsi Dangarembga as Headliner

Also participating are the Nigerian writer Femi Kayode, the South African writer Zukiswa Wanner, and Doek editor Remy Ngamije.
Doek! Magazine

March 29, 2022

Part of the audience at The Annual Film Mischief 2022.

TAFM 2022: Owen Olowu’s Songs of Ubong Takes Grand Cheese Prize for Best Film

23 films were screened in competition at The Annual Film Mischief, a festival by The Film Rats Club. Other winners include Olabode Izy’s The Samaritan and Tosan Anyafulu’s Reflections.
The Film Rats Club

March 21, 2022

Sara Elkamel by Sima Diab

Chibuihe Achimba & Sara Elkamel to Guest-edit 20.35 Africa Poetry Series’ Vol. 5

The series is now open to submissions.
20.35 Africa

March 8, 2022

The Film Rats Club

The Film Rats Club Announces The Annual Film Mischief Festival 2022

The organisation is devoted to low-budget indie films. The inaugural festival theme is “Less is more.”
The Film Rats Club

February 23, 2022

Agbowo issue 2 - Limits

Join Agbowo’s Editorial Team as a Reader

Agbowó

February 23, 2022

Doek Magazine Issue 7. Cover image by Collective For Black Iranians.

Doek! Partners with UEA’s International Chair of Creative Writing for Literary Festival in Namibia

The Doek! Literary Festival will take place from 21-23 April 2022.
Doek! Magazine

February 15, 2022

society of book and magazine editors of Nigeria

SBMEN Announces Editorial Practice & Project Management Course for Feb. 2022

Society for Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN)

January 27, 2022

Abubakar Adam Ibrahim's novel Season of Crimson Blossoms is set in northern Nigeria, which has suffered a rise in terrorism.

Engaging Borders Africa Announces Finalists

The 30 short stories have “the shared aim of changing the ways young people understand radicalization, violent extremism, and disinformation, which are key feeders of conflict and terror in Africa.”
Engaging Borders Africa

January 21, 2022

A bookshop.org store. Image by Book Culture.

Bookshop.org Announces Shortlist for New Futures Programme

It includes BAME, neurodiverse, LGBTQ+, and visually and hearing impaired as well as mental health advocates.
Midas PR

January 12, 2022

Lolwe-Issue-4-Cover

Lolwe Magazine Releases Issue 4

The Pan-African publication’s newest includes writing and photography. Read the editorial note by its founder Troy Onyango.
Lolwe

January 7, 2022

Doek Magazine Issue 7. Cover image by Collective For Black Iranians.

Doek! Magazine Releases Issue 7

The Namibian magazine’s latest issue, Soon/Come, features contributors from three continents. Read the editorial note by its founder Remy Ngamije.
Doek! Magazine

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