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September 1, 2021

The Bank Windhoek Doek Literary Awards: The Shortlist

The list “features some of the most resonant fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art from Namibia.”
Doek! Magazine
Doek! Issue 6 cover.

August 28, 2021

The Quramo Festival of Words 2021 Coming in October

The third edition, themed “Transcendence: Words Defying,” will look at how artists explore issues around the pandemic and cope with its harsh impact on the creative industry.
Quramo Publishing
A cross section of the audience at the Quramo Festival of Words 2019. Credit: Quramo.

August 19, 2021

Abuja Literary and Arts Festival 2021 Set for September

Now in its fourth year, ALitFest has become a landmark of Abuja’s cultural scene. The theme this year is “Making Art Work.”
Abuja Literary and Arts Festival
Abuja Literary Festival 2019. From alitfest.com

August 18, 2021

Submissions Open for 2021 SprinNG Women Authors Prize

The award for female Nigerian authors “invests N200,000 in purchasing, distributing, and marketing print copies of their books.”
SprinNG
Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia. Credit: SprinNG.

August 18, 2021

Chandelle Books to Publish USA & Africa Editions of Echezonachukwu Nduka’s Waterman

The poetry collection was first published by Griots Lounge Publishing Canada.
Uchenna Emelife
Echezonachukwu Nduka's Waterman - Chandelle Books

August 18, 2021

Echezonachukwu Nduka to Read at Beach Bards Poetry & Prose

The event is on Wednesday, 18 August.
Uchenna Emelife
Echezonachukwu Nduka.

August 9, 2021

Dgëku, a Literary Magazine for Queer Africans, Calls for Submissions

The new publication pays $150 for prose pieces of 3,000 words or more, $30 for an individual poem, and $100 maximum for a suite of poems.
Dgëku Magazine

August 5, 2021

The Bank Windhoek Doek Literary Awards: The Longlist

Namibia’s first literary magazine announces the country’s first literary awards.
Doek! Magazine
The Bank Windhoek Doek Literary Awards logo.

July 30, 2021

Agbowó Magazine Releases Issue 4

Themed Chaos, the 19 contributors cast doubts on the mythological truism of the act of creation, and by extension creativity.
Agbowó
Agbowo Issue 4 - Chaos

July 28, 2021

Nigerian Editions of Books by Chimamanda Adichie, Veronique Tadjo, & Chibundu Onuzo Set for August 2021

Narrative Landscape Press
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Credit: Narrative Landscape Press.

July 26, 2021

Meron Hadero Wins AKO Caine Prize, for “Beautiful Tale” of Ethiopia’s “Young, Ingenuous Generation”

The writer, previously shortlisted for the £10,000 award in 2019, is the first winner from her country. Her story, “The Street Sweep,” “negotiates the imported power dynamics of foreign aid in Addis Ababa.”
The AKO Caine Prize
Meron Hadero. Credit: Meron Hadero.

July 26, 2021

The Borough Press Acquires Adorah Nworah’s Debut, House Woman

The book, a tribute to horror stories, arrives in 2022.
The Borough Press
Adorah Nworah. From law.temple.edu.

July 26, 2021

The Cheeky Natives to Host #PoetrySpace on Twitter Spaces

The event will feature notable South African poets reading their work.
The Cheeky Natives
Koleka Putuma. From groene.nl.

July 26, 2021

Doek! Magazine Releases Issue 6

The Namibian magazine’s latest issue, Tomorrow/Together, features, among others, contributors from Jamaica, Lesotho, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, and Tanzania for the very first time.
Doek! Magazine
Doek! Issue 6 cover.

July 8, 2021

TVO TRIBE Announces 2021 Anniversary Programme

Our team of Pan-African creatives has put together a summit, sessions, and a documentary screening.
TVO TRIBE

July 2, 2021

Chudor House Options Movie Rights to Uduak Akpabio Umoren & Akbar Hussain Novels

In Umoren’s Impostor Alert!, two women meet on a bus heading for Lagos. In Hussain’s forthcoming Truth is a Flightless Bird, two halves of Nairobi fight for superiority.
Narrative Landscape Press
Akbar (Aki) Hussain. Credit: Narrative Landscape Press.

July 2, 2021

The James Currey Prize for Literature: The Shortlist

Five writers are in the running for the £1,000 prize money and a publication deal.
James Currey Prize for Literature
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God, both from Heinemann's African Writers Series, edited by Achebe and published by James Currey. Credit: Brown Bag Books.

June 25, 2021

Lolwe Releases Issue 3

The Kenya-based magazine’s latest, featuring fiction, poetry, essays, and photography by 18 contributors, is guest-edited by the Ghanaian writer Elfreda Tetteh and the Trinidadian writer Akhim Alexis, and illustrated by the Nigerian artist Moje Ikpeme.
Lolwe
Lolwe Issue 3. Photo credit: "young and hurt" by Teddy Tavan.

June 24, 2021

A Long House Calls for Submissions to First Issue, Origins

In an age where the African/Black sense of being and history are seemingly bracketed by discourse surrounding slavery and post-colonialism, we offer the possibility to create new readings of ourselves.
A Long House
A Long House calls for submissions to first issue, Origins

June 21, 2021

Nkemdiche, a Children’s Book of Folklore, Shows the Igbo Worldview in Hair and Beauty Politics

Obi Nwazota’s book, subtitled Why We Do Not Grow Beards, illustrates “an art of female beautification.”
Ọkpara House
Nkemdiche: Why We Do Not Grow Beards.

September 1, 2021

Doek! Issue 6 cover.

The Bank Windhoek Doek Literary Awards: The Shortlist

The list “features some of the most resonant fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art from Namibia.”
Doek! Magazine

August 28, 2021

A cross section of the audience at the Quramo Festival of Words 2019. Credit: Quramo.

The Quramo Festival of Words 2021 Coming in October

The third edition, themed “Transcendence: Words Defying,” will look at how artists explore issues around the pandemic and cope with its harsh impact on the creative industry.
Quramo Publishing

August 19, 2021

Abuja Literary Festival 2019. From alitfest.com

Abuja Literary and Arts Festival 2021 Set for September

Now in its fourth year, ALitFest has become a landmark of Abuja’s cultural scene. The theme this year is “Making Art Work.”
Abuja Literary and Arts Festival

August 18, 2021

Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia. Credit: SprinNG.

Submissions Open for 2021 SprinNG Women Authors Prize

The award for female Nigerian authors “invests N200,000 in purchasing, distributing, and marketing print copies of their books.”
SprinNG

August 18, 2021

Echezonachukwu Nduka's Waterman - Chandelle Books

Chandelle Books to Publish USA & Africa Editions of Echezonachukwu Nduka’s Waterman

The poetry collection was first published by Griots Lounge Publishing Canada.
Uchenna Emelife

August 18, 2021

Echezonachukwu Nduka.

Echezonachukwu Nduka to Read at Beach Bards Poetry & Prose

The event is on Wednesday, 18 August.
Uchenna Emelife

August 9, 2021

Dgëku, a Literary Magazine for Queer Africans, Calls for Submissions

The new publication pays $150 for prose pieces of 3,000 words or more, $30 for an individual poem, and $100 maximum for a suite of poems.
Dgëku Magazine

August 5, 2021

The Bank Windhoek Doek Literary Awards logo.

The Bank Windhoek Doek Literary Awards: The Longlist

Namibia’s first literary magazine announces the country’s first literary awards.
Doek! Magazine

July 30, 2021

Agbowo Issue 4 - Chaos

Agbowó Magazine Releases Issue 4

Themed Chaos, the 19 contributors cast doubts on the mythological truism of the act of creation, and by extension creativity.
Agbowó

July 28, 2021

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Credit: Narrative Landscape Press.

Nigerian Editions of Books by Chimamanda Adichie, Veronique Tadjo, & Chibundu Onuzo Set for August 2021

Narrative Landscape Press

July 26, 2021

Meron Hadero. Credit: Meron Hadero.

Meron Hadero Wins AKO Caine Prize, for “Beautiful Tale” of Ethiopia’s “Young, Ingenuous Generation”

The writer, previously shortlisted for the £10,000 award in 2019, is the first winner from her country. Her story, “The Street Sweep,” “negotiates the imported power dynamics of foreign aid in Addis Ababa.”
The AKO Caine Prize

July 26, 2021

Adorah Nworah. From law.temple.edu.

The Borough Press Acquires Adorah Nworah’s Debut, House Woman

The book, a tribute to horror stories, arrives in 2022.
The Borough Press

July 26, 2021

Koleka Putuma. From groene.nl.

The Cheeky Natives to Host #PoetrySpace on Twitter Spaces

The event will feature notable South African poets reading their work.
The Cheeky Natives

July 26, 2021

Doek! Issue 6 cover.

Doek! Magazine Releases Issue 6

The Namibian magazine’s latest issue, Tomorrow/Together, features, among others, contributors from Jamaica, Lesotho, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, and Tanzania for the very first time.
Doek! Magazine

July 8, 2021

TVO TRIBE Announces 2021 Anniversary Programme

Our team of Pan-African creatives has put together a summit, sessions, and a documentary screening.
TVO TRIBE

July 2, 2021

Akbar (Aki) Hussain. Credit: Narrative Landscape Press.

Chudor House Options Movie Rights to Uduak Akpabio Umoren & Akbar Hussain Novels

In Umoren’s Impostor Alert!, two women meet on a bus heading for Lagos. In Hussain’s forthcoming Truth is a Flightless Bird, two halves of Nairobi fight for superiority.
Narrative Landscape Press

July 2, 2021

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God, both from Heinemann's African Writers Series, edited by Achebe and published by James Currey. Credit: Brown Bag Books.

The James Currey Prize for Literature: The Shortlist

Five writers are in the running for the £1,000 prize money and a publication deal.
James Currey Prize for Literature

June 25, 2021

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

Lolwe Releases Issue 3

The Kenya-based magazine’s latest, featuring fiction, poetry, essays, and photography by 18 contributors, is guest-edited by the Ghanaian writer Elfreda Tetteh and the Trinidadian writer Akhim Alexis, and illustrated by the Nigerian artist Moje Ikpeme.
Lolwe

June 24, 2021

A Long House calls for submissions to first issue, Origins

A Long House Calls for Submissions to First Issue, Origins

In an age where the African/Black sense of being and history are seemingly bracketed by discourse surrounding slavery and post-colonialism, we offer the possibility to create new readings of ourselves.
A Long House

June 21, 2021

Nkemdiche: Why We Do Not Grow Beards.

Nkemdiche, a Children’s Book of Folklore, Shows the Igbo Worldview in Hair and Beauty Politics

Obi Nwazota’s book, subtitled Why We Do Not Grow Beards, illustrates “an art of female beautification.”
Ọkpara House

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