Press Releases

January 6, 2022

Anietie Isong’s Radio Sunrise Set for Film Adaptation

The production of the novel, which is about brown envelope journalism, is led by two Nollywood companies, Royal Arts Academy and Closer Pictures.

Enter for the 2022 AKO Caine Prize

The £10,000 award went to Ethiopia’s Meron Hadero in 2021.

In Before Them, We, 24 U.K. Poets of African Descent Explore Their Grandparents’ Lives

The Winners of the Bank Windhoek Doek Awards for Namibian Literature

Judges for the biennial awards selected Ndawedwa Denga Hanghuwo in fiction, Pauline Buhle Ndhlovu in poetry, Natasha Uys in nonfiction, and Namafu Amutse in visual art.

Submit to World Literature Today’s “New African Voices” Portfolio

It is guest-edited by Mahtem Shiferraw.

Bookshop.org Launches New Futures, an Initiative for Underrepresented Communities

Partnering with The Booksellers Association, Gardners, and The Bookseller, the initiative will see booksellers from Black and marginalized groups open their own indie bookshops.

Damon Galgut & Nadifa Mohamed Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

The South African Galgut makes the list for the third time, for The Promise. The Somali Mohamed is chosen for her The Fortune Men.

A Long House Announces the Rajat Neogy Editorial Fellowship

The fellowship is named after Rajat Neogy, the Ugandan writer and editor who founded Transition Magazine at age 22.

The Bank Windhoek Doek Literary Awards: The Shortlist

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

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.

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

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.”

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

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

Echezonachukwu Nduka to Read at Beach Bards Poetry & Prose

The event is on Wednesday, 18 August.

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.

The Bank Windhoek Doek Literary Awards: The Longlist

Namibia’s first literary magazine announces the country’s first literary awards.

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.

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

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

January 6, 2022

Anietie Isong’s Radio Sunrise Set for Film Adaptation

The production of the novel, which is about brown envelope journalism, is led by two Nollywood companies, Royal Arts Academy and Closer Pictures.

Open Country Mag

December 23, 2021

Enter for the 2022 AKO Caine Prize

The £10,000 award went to Ethiopia’s Meron Hadero in 2021.

The AKO Caine Prize

December 10, 2021

In Before Them, We, 24 U.K. Poets of African Descent Explore Their Grandparents’ Lives

Midas PR

November 19, 2021

The Winners of the Bank Windhoek Doek Awards for Namibian Literature

Judges for the biennial awards selected Ndawedwa Denga Hanghuwo in fiction, Pauline Buhle Ndhlovu in poetry, Natasha Uys in nonfiction, and Namafu Amutse in visual art.

Doek! Magazine

October 15, 2021

Submit to World Literature Today’s “New African Voices” Portfolio

It is guest-edited by Mahtem Shiferraw.

Open Country Mag

October 7, 2021

Bookshop.org Launches New Futures, an Initiative for Underrepresented Communities

Partnering with The Booksellers Association, Gardners, and The Bookseller, the initiative will see booksellers from Black and marginalized groups open their own indie bookshops.

Midas PR

September 20, 2021

Damon Galgut & Nadifa Mohamed Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

The South African Galgut makes the list for the third time, for The Promise. The Somali Mohamed is chosen for her The Fortune Men.

The Booker Prize Foundation

September 17, 2021