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Call for Submissions: Wasafiri New Writing Prize (Deadline: 15 June)

By Africa in Words on 9 May , 2020 • ( 1 )

One of the many impacts of COVID-19 has been on writers’ schedules and headspace. Wasafiri– a dynamic platform for mapping new landscapes in contemporary international writing – is acknowledging this by extending the deadline for their new writing prize. The… Read More ›

Is your reading really ‘useful’? Maryse Condé in Cape Town – ‘The Story of the Cannibal Woman’

By C E Hastings on 1 June , 2015 • ( 3 )

I’ve recently picked up Tim Parks’ collection of essays Where I’m Reading From: The Changing World of Books (2014). One of the essays in Part 2, ‘The Book In the World’, entitled ‘Writing Adrift in the World’, critiques post-colonial literary… Read More ›