Today, we are delighted to share an AiW Words On… Q&A with Modupe Daramola, founder of Noisy Streetss, a dynamic start-up publisher, on a mission, “to tell the authentic stories of young Nigerians and Africans, publishing them both within the… Read More ›
By AiW Guest: Sanya Osha. Maik Nwosu – a novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright and professor of English literary studies at the University of Denver, Colorado – is one of the more intriguing as well as enduring figures of… Read More ›
With Ellah Wakatama; interview by Doseline Kiguru. Date: 9 December 2024. On the publication of the latest Caine Prize for African Writing short story anthology, Midnight in the Morgue and Other Stories (Cassava Republic Press), our focus on the 2024… Read More ›
With AiW Guest: Nadia Davids. AiW note – on the 2024 edition of our, now annual, AiW Caine Prize series… Today is the last in our ‘Words On / Caine Prize’ 2024 Shortlist Q&As, and the final of our “twinned” Writer-Publisher… Read More ›
With AiW Guest: Gerald Maa, editor and director of The Georgia Review. Today, our final Writer-Publisher ‘Words on / Caine Prize’ Q&As, part of our now annual, AiW Caine Prize series, is with publisher Gerald Maa of The Georgia Review (GR), the… Read More ›
With AiW Guest: Tryphena Yeboah. Today, we’re delighted to continue our, now annual, AiW Caine Prize series, with a Writer-Publisher ‘Words on / Caine Prize Q&A’ from writer Tryphena Yeboah, on the shortlist for the 2024 Prize with her story… Read More ›
With AiW Guest: Tom Jenks, Editor and Co-Founder of Narrative Magazine. AiW note: Today, in the penultimate of the ‘Words on / Caine Prize’ 2024 Shortlist Q&A series, our “twinned” Writer-Publisher Q&A set is with Tom Jenks, editor and co-founder of… Read More ›
With AiW Guest: Samuel Kọ́láwọlé. AiW note – on our 2024, now annual, AiW Caine Prize series: Continuing our ‘Words On / Caine Prize’ 2024 Shortlist series, in this Q&A, we hear from writer, Samuel Kọ́láwọlé (Nigeria), whose shortlisted story,… Read More ›
With AiW Guest: Carolyn Kuebler, editor of New England Review. AiW note: Today, part of our now annual AiW Caine Prize series, is the first of our Writer-Publisher 2024 Caine Prize Shortlist Q&A duos, plugging in to our interests in prizes, publication… Read More ›
With AiW Guest: Uche Okonkwo. We’re continuing with a new series of ‘Words On’ Caine Prize Q&As, today featuring the first of our “twinned” sets with two writers whose stories were shortlisted for the 2024 Caine Prize, here with Uche… Read More ›
With AiW Guest: ‘Pemi Aguda. AiW note: We’re continuing with a new series of ‘Words On’ Caine Prize Q&As, today featuring the first of our “twinned” sets with two writers whose stories were shortlisted for the 2024 Caine Prize, here… Read More ›
With AiW Guest: Chika Unigwe. AiW note – on the 2024 edition of our, now annual, AiW Caine Prize series… This week, our series of ‘Words on Q&As’ kick off a collaborative series based around the shortlist for the 2024… Read More ›
With AiW Guests: Chris Abani, Kwame Dawes, Joanne Hichens, and Hilda Twongyeirwe.Edited by: Ashawnta Jackson and Jessica Powers for #readingAfrica 2024 (Catalyst Press). Jackson and Powers: Anthologies offer readers the opportunity to explore multiple writers — their voices, experiences, and… Read More ›
AiW Guests: Ucheoma Onwutuebe and Lydia Mathis. AiW note: what follows is an email conversation between Nigerian writer Ucheoma Onwutuebe and 2023 Editorial Fellow at New York based literary magazine A Public Space, Lydia Mathis, held in October 2023. With… Read More ›
With AiW Guests, SCOLMA committee members: Ben Carson, Liz Haines, Jenni Skinner, and Charles Fonge. AiW exchanged our Words On… Q&A with SCOLMA committee members on the launch of their recent video series on YouTube, ‘African Studies in the Digital… Read More ›
Kakizi Jemima is a multidisciplinary artist and curator. She has curated exhibitions in Rwanda and Switzerland, worked on art projects with UNICEF Rwanda, the Rwanda Art Museum, Girl Effect, Goethe Institute, and Creative Action Institute, and exhibited her work in… Read More ›
AiW Guests: Koleka Putuma Interviewed by: Siobhan Bahl, Freya Moulton and Tessa Rhodes On 22 February, 2022 “This is what it is, or what it was, this is the evolution of it all…” Koleka Putuma is an esteemed South African… Read More ›
Just under a week to go, with the last chance saloon doors swinging, we are dipping in to our archives: this AiW #PastAndPresent post may look back but has our sights set firmly forward to the Digital Festival Day (04… Read More ›
AiW Guests: Maureen Masamba, Azafi Omoluabi, Goretti Kyomuhendo, and Mutesi Gasana, with Jessica Powers. As part of this year’s #ReadingAfricaWeek, in the second part of this publishing series with Africa in Words, Catalyst Press publisher Jessica Powers interviewed four women… Read More ›
AiW note: With thanks to Catalyst Press who have worked with us to bring you this twinned Q&A… “With increasing global focus on African writing, this new initiative aims to open networks on the continent and to get African writing… Read More ›
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