Last week the buzz was about South African winner of the 2015 Etisalat Prize for African Writing Songeziwe Mahlangu. He beat many other folks to win a few bob which will go a long way to help in him sorted with his bitlong for the next few weeks. The chief judge who selected the winner […]
PEN International is a worldwide association of writers, founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere. The US version of PEN announced the longlists for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards, spanning fiction, nonfiction, biography, essays, translation, and more on 12th March. The finalists will be announced on April 15 […]
Short Story Day Africa (SSDA) first came to the attention to some of us when it was won by Kenyan writer Okwiri Oduor in 2013. She went on to be shortlisted for the Caine Prize with fellow SSDA Efemia Chela(Zambia) and she won. With such a glorious starting it became quickly evident that you wanted […]
It’s not been a great time for Kenya’s literary matriarchs in recent times. In 2011 we said goodbye to Margaret Ogola the writer of The River and The Source and my personal favourite Mandate of the People. We then said goodbye to Asenath Odaga probably our greatest female writer and the first to set up […]
Bryony Rheam was born in Kadoma, Zimbabwe and became a world traveller ending up in Ndola, Zambia, where she still lives with her partner, John, and their two daughters, Sian and Ellie. She had a number of short stories published in various anthologies of Zimbabwean writing before her first novel, This September Sun, was published […]
Siphiwo Mahala is a South African writer who has two books to his name; When a Man Cries and African Delights. His short stories appear in various journals worldwide. He is also the Head of Books and Publishing at the national Department of Arts and Culture of South Africa. African Delights has been described by […]
We have a winner. After a longlist and a shortlist and then the buildup, South Africa’s Songeziwe Mahlangu emerged the winner of the Etisalat Prize for African Writing 2015. The prize was given at a glittering ceremony at the Intercontinental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos last night. He is the second winner of prize after Noviolet […]
So we are going into a weekend and if you like me are looking for something cool to read then I have two publications you want to check out. You can check out an anthology of new speculative fiction from Africa called Terra Incognita edited by Nerine Dorman. This is Short Story Day Africa‘s second […]
So I gave a snapshot from the 2015 edition of the Uganda International Writers’ Conference on Wednesday. Here are images from the organisers who had invited a huge number of authors. Thanks organisers!
A few weeks ago our good friend in Cairo Lena Naassana gave us a report and images from the Cairo Book Fair which happened from 28th January – 12th February. If you read the piece keenly, you will note that she mentioned something about the Cairo Literary Festival at the very end of her piece. […]
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