Conference and Book Launch Friday 4 July 2014 10am – 6pm Racism, Writing and Resistance: British Diasporic Literature in English and Vernaculars Manchester Central Library Performance Space, St Peter’s Square, Manchester M2 5PD We have seen a decade of re-energised racism and… Read More ›
Month: June 2014
Africa Writes 2014 (11 – 13 July)
Africa Writes Friday 11 – Sunday 13 July 2014 The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB Africa Writes – the Royal African Society’s annual literature and book festival promoting contemporary African writing – returns to The British Library…. Read More ›
Etisalat – Call for Entries (12 May – 8 August 2014)
Etisalat Nigeria invites entries for the 2014 Etisalat Prize for Literature. Entries close on the 8th of August 2014. On the 12th May, Etisalat Nigeria announced the 2014 Etisalat Prize for Literature “Call for Entries”, the second edition of the much… Read More ›
Blogging the Caine Prize: Okwiri Oduor’s ‘My Father’s Head’
AiW Guest: Doseline Kiguru As I began to read ‘My Father’s Head’, I thought for a moment that it was going to be yet another Caine Prize story set in church and about cunning priests and their gullible as well as… Read More ›
Victor Ehikhamenor: Chronicles Of The Enchanted World Exhibition, 21 May – 19 July 2014
“Chronicles Of The Enchanted World” Paintings and Sculptural Installations by Victor Ehikhamenor, 21 May – 19 July 2014 Gallery of African Art, London
Ivan Vladislavić in the UK – events
| online | Norwich | London | Brighton | Cambridge | with J.M. Coetzee and No Violet Bulawayo at the Worlds Literature Festival in Norwich, 19 June And Patrick Flanery for ‘Camera Obscura: a View of South Africa’, 25 June… Read More ›
Call for Entries: Africa in Motion Short Film Competition 2014 (deadline 30 June 2014)
Africa in Motion Short Film Competition 2014 Dear Filmmakers, We are currently inviting African filmmakers to submit short films of no longer than 30 minutes for Africa in Motion’s prestigious annual short film competition, to which a substantial cash prize is… Read More ›
An interview with novelist Fred Soneka
Fred Soneka is a novelist living in Freetown, Sierra Leone, who recently published two novels: When The Axe Swings (2012) and Looking for Tanana (2013). When The Axe Swings explores the dynamics of a polygamous marriage as the woodcutter Woody… Read More ›
The Golden Baobab Prize – Call for Submissions (29 June 2014)
The Golden Baobab Prize, Ghana: Call for Submissions Submission date: 29th June 2014. Winners will be announced in November 2014. The 2014 Golden Baobab Prizes are making their final call for submissions. With about three weeks more to end the call,… Read More ›
Blogging the Caine Prize: Diane Awerbuck’s ‘Phosphorescence’
A story about waste – human waste – in immaculate prose, Diane Awerbuck’s ‘Phosphorescence’ has, for me, a quality of suspension. On the one hand, it’s about the defiant resistance of ‘an old lady’ against loss, of her habitual daily… Read More ›
The Global History of the Book (1780 to the present): Call for Papers (submission deadline 15 June 2014)
The Global History of the Book (1780 to the present): Workshop Ertegun House, University of Oxford, 4 – 5 December 2014 The Global History of the Book (1780 to the present) is a two-day interdisciplinary workshop organised by doctoral and… Read More ›
Sarah Lotz on Her New Global Thriller, ‘The Three’
Walking into Vroman’s—an independent bookstore in Pasadena, California, a place I’ve been coming since I was a kid—I was shocked to see Sarah Lotz’s name written neatly in red marker on the whiteboard announcing author talks. I’d just come back… Read More ›
Blogging the Caine Prize: Billy Kahora’s ‘The Gorilla’s Apprentice’
A note of intro. from Africa in Words: Last year we took part in ‘Blogging the Caine Prize’ – a carnival of week-by-week blogging around the shortlist for the annual Caine Prize for African writing. While there is no ‘organised’ carnival… Read More ›
Writivism Festival, Kampala, 18-22 June 2014
The 2014 Writivism Festival 18-22 June 2014 National Theatre, Kampala, Uganda The 2014 Writivism Festival provides a platform for the enjoyment and production of high quality African arts and culture. Held every year in Kampala, Uganda, the Festival attracts all… Read More ›
Register for the 2014 Derby – from ‘The Restless Supermarket’ by Ivan Vladislavić
| REGISTER for the 2014 Restless Derby | Judged by The Restless Supermarket author Ivan Vladislavić. The winner is to be announced at a celebratory awards ceremony at the University of Sussex on Monday 23rd June, from 3.30pm. Vladislavić, recognised as… Read More ›
Precarious texts? a new autobiography project
If you talk to a researcher about their PhD, I have found that there comes a moment when they reveal the ‘hidden’ thesis, the one they didn’t quite write. In history, this is sometimes prevented by archival destruction (recent or ancient),… Read More ›