Ba re e ne re Short Story anthology campaign meets crowd funding targets. Ba re e ne re, an educational nonprofit based in Lesotho that promotes increased literacy, creative writing and artistic exchange as well hosts an annual literature festival in the Southern African nation. Ba re e ne re is the equivalent of “Once […]
Anthologies and literary prizes you can enter in November 2016. From Zimbabwe to the rest of the continent we bring you opportunities for your writing career. They include; The 1980 Alliance seeks prose from Zimbabwe The 1980 Alliance is looking for writers for the second edition of its book project. The first edition, ‘Dream of […]
Event: Cosmos Book Club features Ng’ang’a Mbugua’s Angels of the Wild Date: Saturday November 5th, 2016 Time: Saturday at 14:00–16:00 Venue: Cosmos Coffee House, Highwayy Mall, Mombasa Road (opposite Nyayo Stadium). The Cosmos Coffee House which was started a few months ago at the Highwayy Mall does some of the best food and drink in […]
Rasna Warah’s new nonfiction book Unsilenced launched to a packed audience at Goethe Nairobi on Wednesday October 26th 2016. Rasna Warah who worked for the UN for a long time is a columnist with the Daily Nation. She has three nonfiction titles to her name the first of which is Triple Heritage: A Journey to […]
Detectives rocking the pages of some of the best African writing today who need their day on the silver screen. So a few weeks ago I did a post about the need for more African novels that need to be made into movies. It was a fun post for me and I was just sharing […]
Egyptian Novelist Nasser Iraq is the winner for Katara Prize for Arabic Novel 2016. The Katara Prize for Arabic Novel is an Arabic literary prize based in Qatar established in 2014 by the Katara Cultural Village. The total prize pool is $650,000 and the main prize $200,000, making it one of the richest literary prizes […]
Jagero Oduor’s second book Ghosts of 1894 launched at the Goethe Institut in Nairobi on October 19th, 2016. On his panel were University of Nairobi’s Dr Tom Odhiambo and book blogger James Murua with bizarre moderation from Khainga O’Okwemba. Ghosts of 1894 is the sophomore book by Kenyan writer Oduor Jagero and it follows Habineza […]
Novelist Aminatta Forna is a Baileys Prize for Literature 2017 judge. The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction was established to recognise the literary achievement of female writers after the Booker Prize of 1991 failed to shortlist a woman despite 60% of novels published that year being by female authors. The prize that year would go […]
The Abantu Festival 2016 set for 06 – 10 December in Soweto, South Africa have announced some of their guests and the lineup is epic. The Abantu Book Festival with Thando Mgqolozana as director and Panashe Chigumadzi as curator is organised under the theme, Our Stories. The new festival celebrates African stories through written and […]
Jagero Oduor will launch his sophomore novel Ghosts of 1894 at Goethe Nairobi on October 19th, 2016. Jagero Oduor is a Kenyan writer who came onto his self-published novel True Citizen a book focusing on the chaotic public transport scene in his home country. The book got mixed reviews with purists of the written word […]
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