Zukiswa Wanner is the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2017 judge for the Africa region. As mentioned recently, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2017 is now open for business. You the entrant will have judges’ select five winning writers and if you win share a total prize money of £15,000. The overall winner receives £5,000, one of […]
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, Chika Unigwe and Elnathan John have been announced in the Nigeria Prize for Literature 2016 shortlist. The Nigeria Prize for Literature sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited is the richest prize in African literature with the winner going home with US$100,000. The prize rotates around four genres; Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Children’s literature. […]
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2017 is now open for entries. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded annually for the best piece of unpublished short fiction in countries that are members of the Commonwealth. This means countries from the five different regions that Great Britain invaded and colonized; Africa, Asia, Canada and Europe, the […]
Afridiaspora seeks your submissions for its debut edition of its new quarterly edition. Afridiaspora is a pan-African literary webzine that showcases beautiful African stories written by African writers at home and in the diaspora. I have been enjoying reading their features, reviews, stories and more over the last few months. Our friends from Afridiaspora have […]
Nnedi Okorafor is the recipient of a Hugo Award 2016 for in the novella category for Binti. Some of the previous novel by this Nigerian American author include Akata Witch, Who Fears Death (2010, DAW/Penguin), “Hello, Moto” (2011, A Tor.Com Original short story), Kabu Kabu (2013, Prime Books), Lagoon (2014, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.), and The Book of […]
Donald Molosi launched his book We Are All Blue (WAAB) with a colourful ceremony at the Cresta President Hotel in Gaborone, Botswana on 31st August 2016. Donald Molosi is no stranger to East Africans. To the world he is the first Motswana performer on Broadway in the US as well as staring in movies alongside […]
The inaugural Nyanza Literary Festival 2016 winners announced at the Kiboko Bay Resort in Kisumu County, Kenya on 27th August 2016 are Troy Onyango and Redscar McOdindo K’Oyuga. The Nyanza Literary Festival was set to happen in Kisumu city on the shores of Lake Victoria on August 27th, 2016. The plan for the events on […]
The African Speculative Fiction Society announces itself with a new recognition called The Nommo Awards. The African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS) is a new community of writers, editors, publishers and artists of African Science Fiction and Fantasy that emerged on August 18th this year. Some of the spokespeople for the new initiative include Chinelo Onwualu, […]
The Harare City Library honoured Petina Gappah, one of the most well-known African writers in recent times, by naming its children section after her. Gappah is famous her smashing debut short story collection An Elegy For Easterly (our review) and her sophomore offering a novel The Book of Memory. In the last few years, Petina […]
The Writivism Prize 2016 winners were announced in ceremonies in Kampala, Uganda on 27th and 28th August 2016. The prose prize went to Ugandan Acan Innocent Immaculate while the poetry prize called the Okot p’Bitek Prize went to Kenyan Redscar McOdindo K’Oyuga. Unlike in the past where only prose was awarded, the Writivism Prizes this […]
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