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 ›
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Q&As: ‘Pemi Aguda’s ‘Breastmilk’ – on the Caine Prize Shortlist 2024
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 ›
Q&As: Chika Unigwe, Chair of the Judging Panel – the Caine Prize Shortlist 2024
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 ›
Q&As: Mame Bougouma Diene and Woppa Diallo – Caine Prize shortlist 2023 – winners
AiW note: Today is the last in our series of twinned Caine Prize shortlist 2023 interviews we have been running through the week. A month ago yesterday, on the 2nd October, Senegalese entrant, ‘A Soul of Small Places’ , by… Read More ›
Q&As: Jendella Benson – Judging the Caine Prize 2023
AiW note: Today marks the last day in the series of twinned Caine Prize shortlist 2023 interviews we have been running through the week. A month ago yesterday, on the 2nd October, Senegalese entrant Woppa Diallo & Mame Bougouma Diene’s… Read More ›
Q&As: Tlotlo Tsamaase – Caine Prize shortlist 2023
AiW note: The penultimate day in our continuing Words on… Q&A series this week – a range of interviews around the UK-based short story award, the Caine Prize for African Writing, 2023 – sees writer Tlotlo Tsamaase (Botswana) talk with… Read More ›
Q&As: Eli Goldman (Editor) – Publishing the Caine Prize shortlist 2023
AiW note: This is the penultimate day in our continuing Words on… Q&A series this week, a range of interviews around the shortlist for UK-based short story award, the Caine Prize for African Writing, 2023. In the lead up to… Read More ›
Q&As: Yejide Kilanko – Caine Prize shortlist 2023
AiW note: We’re going into day 2 in our continuing Words on… Q&A series this week, publishing a range of interviews around the UK-based short story award, the Caine Prize for African Writing, 2023. A few firsts have re-shaped the… Read More ›
Q&As: Kadija George Sesay – Judging the Caine Prize 2023
AiW note: We’re into day 2 in our continuing Words on… Q&A series this week, publishing a range of interviews around the UK-based short story award, the Caine Prize for African Writing, 2023. A few firsts have re-shaped the Prize… Read More ›
Words on… Poetry Africa, with Lethu Nkwanyana, South African Slam Champion 2023
Poetry Africa announces the South Africa Poetry Slam Champion on Instagram. AiW note: This post in the “Words on… Poetry Africa” Q&A series is brought to you in collaboration with the Poetry Africa festival 2023, and is with the Festival’s… Read More ›
Words on… Poetry Africa 2023, with Indigene ‘Gene’ Corefio
AiW note: This marks the latest in our new “Words on… Poetry Africa” Q&A series, brought to you in collaboration with the Poetry Africa festival 2023, which is running this year across 3 cities (Johannesburg, Durban, Bloemfontein) from the 5th… Read More ›
Words on… Poetry Africa 2023, with Solly Ramatswi, aka Soetry
AiW note: This is the second in our new “Words on…” Q&A series in collaboration with Poetry Africa 2023. Taking place from the 5th to the 17th October, this year across the three South African cities (Johannesburg, Durban and Bloemfontein),… Read More ›
Words on… Poetry Africa 2023, with Featured Poet, Eugene Skeef
AiW note: We’re delighted to share a range of new “Words on…” Q&As in collaboration with Poetry Africa. The 5th October marked the start of this year’s, the 27th, Poetry Africa festival: Poetry Africa is an annual international poetry festival curated… Read More ›
Q&A / Calls for… Nozipho Wabatagore and ‘Queer Africa: Resilience and Hopeful Now’
AiW note: this is the first in a welcome return for us at AiW to posts in the “Calls for…” category – calling for submissions to events, collections, issues, awards, all and sundries, etc. – in this case, for creative… Read More ›
Q&A – Ayo Oyeku Words on the Times
AiW note: Today we bring you an inspiring Words on the Times – a Q&A series initiated to connect up our experiences of life and work as the pandemic hit – with writer and publisher Ayo Oyeku. Ayo Oyeku is a… Read More ›
Q&A – iwalewabooks Words on the Times
AiW note: Today we bring you an inspiring Words on the Times – a Q&A series initiated to connect up our experiences of life and work as the pandemic hit – with the publishing house iwalewabooks. iwalewabooks is a publishing… Read More ›
Q&A – Siphiwo Mahala: Imbiza Journal for African Writing Words on the Times
AiW Guest: Siphiwo Mahala. AIW note: Today we offer a Words on the Times Q&A from Siphiwo Mahala, Editor of Imbiza Journal for African Writing. Our Words on the Times series (available at the link) was initiated in April 2020… Read More ›
Words on the Times & Call for Entries: Paige Nick, the GBAS Book Cover Design Awards 2021
AiW Guest: Paige Nick. AiW note: today we bring you a combination post ~ a Words on the Times with Paige Nick – founder of The Good Book Appreciation Society, a Book Club on Facebook with over 16,000 members,… Read More ›
Spotlight on… Ola Rotimi: The Revival of a Humanist
AiW Guest: Sanya Osha.With Osha’s Words on the Times – a Q&A subset inititated to connect us up in our experiences of the pandemic – below… Ola Rotimi is a major Nigerian dramatist who passed away in 2000. Some of… Read More ›
Q&A – Anthony Molosi (Botswana): Poetry Africa Words on the Times
AiW Guest: Anthony Molosi.AiW note: In collaboration with Poetry Africa – presented by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal – we offer here a mini-series of our Words on the Times Q&As, with poets who are… Read More ›
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