Author Archives
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Q&As: Okey Ndibe – Judge, AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022
AiW note: Okey Ndibe’s AKO Caine Prize shortlist Q&A rounds out our week across the series, part of our longer annual AKO Caine Prize coverage. Our Q&As have opened up some of the less visible avenues and labour involved in… Read More ›
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Q&As: Billie McTernan – AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022
AiW note: Leading up to the winner announcement of the AKO Caine Prize on Monday 18 July, we have been publishing a series of Guest reviews of each of the stories shortlisted in 2022. We have also been sharing a… Read More ›
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Q&As: Letlhogonolo Mokgoroane – Judge, AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022
AiW note: In the lead up to the award announcement on Monday the 18th July, along with our AiW Guest reviews of the shortlisted stories, we are running an attendant set of AKO Caine Q&As – with each of the… Read More ›
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Q&As: Joshua Chizoma – AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022
AiW note: this year, as part of our now annual AKO Caine Prize for African Writing coverage, we have published AiW Guest reviews of each of the 5 stories shortlisted for the 2022 award. Leading up to the winner announcement… Read More ›
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Q&As: Allwell Uwazuruike from Afritondo – Publisher, AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022
AiW note: as part of what has become our annual AKO Caine Prize for African Writing coverage, this year we have published AiW Guest reviews of each of the 5 stories shortlisted for the 2022 award. Leading up to the… Read More ›
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Q&As: Nana-Ama Danquah – AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022
AiW note: As part of our annual AKO Caine Prize coverage, we’ve been running AiW Guest reviews of each of the 5 stories shortlisted for the award, and this week, as we lead up to the winner announcement on Monday… Read More ›
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Q&As: Elisa Diallo – Judge, AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022
AiW note: As part of our annual AKO Caine Prize coverage, we’ve been running AiW Guest reviews of each of the 5 stories shortlisted for the award, and this week, as we lead up to the winner announcement on Monday… Read More ›
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Q&As: Idza Luhumyo – AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022
AiW note: As part of our annual AKO Caine Prize coverage, we’ve been running AiW Guest reviews of each of the 5 stories shortlisted for the award, and this week, as we lead up to the winner announcement on Monday… Read More ›
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Q&As: Rachel Zadok from Short Story Day Africa- Publisher, AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022
Last week, as part of our annual AKO Caine Prize coverage, we ran Guest reviews of the 5 stories shortlisted for the 2022 award. This week, and leading up to the winner announcement on Monday 18 July, we are very… Read More ›
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Q&As: Hannah Giorgis – AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022
Last week, as part of our annual AKO Caine Prize coverage, we ran Guest reviews of the 5 stories shortlisted for the award. This week, and leading up to the winner announcement on Monday 18 July, we are very pleased… Read More ›
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Q&As: Akashic Books’ Johanna Ingalls – Publisher, AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022
Last week, as part of our annual AKO Caine Prize coverage, we ran Guest reviews of the 5 stories shortlisted for the award. This week, and leading up to the winner announcement on Monday 18 July, we are very pleased… Read More ›
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Calls for & Opportunities… roundup of January 2022
Here’s our first catch up of 2022 with a selection of “calls for” posts – shout outs for opportunities and contributions – academic and creative – collated primarily from our Twitter feed for this one… Do get in touch and… Read More ›
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Calls for & Opportunities… roundup of November’s (2021)
Here’s our catch up with a monthly selection of “calls for” posts, for opportunities and contributions – academic and creative – that we’ve also been collating from various platforms we visit and revisit, and across our Twitter, Facebook and Instagram…. Read More ›
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Q&A with Marius Roux, GBAS Book Cover Design Award Finalist
AiW note: Ahead of the announcement of the winner of the GBAS Book Cover Design Awards tomorrow, December 1st, we have been able to catch up with two of the finalists, Casper Schutte and Marius Roux. We asked them some… Read More ›
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Q&A: Casper Schutte, GBAS Book Cover Design Award Finalist
AiW note: Ahead of the announcement of the winner of the GBAS Book Cover Design Awards tomorrow, December 1st, we have been able to catch up with two of the finalists, Casper Schutte and Marius Roux. We asked them some… Read More ›
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Review Q&A: ‘Anxious Joburg: the inner lives of a Global South City’ with co-editor Nicky Falkof
Ahead of our forthcoming review of Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of a Global South City (Wits UP, 2020), we are publishing here an accompanying Q&A. Answering the questions is Nicky Falkof, co-editor (with Cobus van Staden) of the book. Asking… Read More ›
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Calls for & Opportunities… roundup of October’s (2021)
In a brief announcement of the latest from our sister post, the monthly round-up of ‘other words’ – news on AiW’s radar from our social media feeds – we are retiring the ‘Wrap’ as was… ‘In other words…’, our retrospective… Read More ›
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Q&A with Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike ~ Things that Matter & that Made Me
Today, we are delighted to be sharing a couple of new quickfire AiW Q&As with Nigerian writer Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, where we talk about “Things that Matter” to makers’ and thinkers’ processes and selves… In this case, we’re talking books… Read More ›
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Introducing Poetry Africa 2021 & AiW Words on the Times…
AiW are excited to share advance news of a mini-series, in collaboration with Poetry Africa 2021, of our Words on the Times Q&A subset – with poets who are participating in the 25th edition of the festival this year. Running… Read More ›
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Calls for & Opportunities… roundup of September’s (2021)
Alongside our sister post, our monthly round-up of ‘other words’ – news on AiW’s radar from our social media feeds, we catch up with our “calls for” posts this month, for opportunities and contributions – academic and creative – collated… Read More ›
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