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 ›
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Words on… Revisiting the Afritondo Short Story Prize – #PastAndPresent
A #PnP through which we look back to our 2022 archives, focusing on the short story prize and prizing African writing. We take the leading footprints of Davina Kawuma‘s writer-reader, reader-writer review of Afritondo’s inaugural short story prize anthology, Yellow… Read More ›
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 ›
Q&A: Words on the Times – M Lynx Qualey for ArabLit
AiW note: ArabLit describe themselves as a translator-centered “loose collective” that produce a website, quarterly magazine (ArabLit Quarterly), and a limited book series (ALQ Books) focused on Arabic literatures in translation. They also run an annual ArabLit Story Prize, an… Read More ›
Q&A: Alexander Nderitu – trailblazing ‘When the Whirlwind Passes’ from digital to print
‘That great Kenyan novel will eventually come. Perhaps, it will even emerge online, like the novels of Alexander Nderitu.’ – Joyce Nyairo, cultural analyst, Daily Nation Alexander Nderitu is a Kenyan poet, novelist, and playwright and critic. He is also an arts analyst… Read More ›
Call for Submissions: Wasafiri New Writing Prize (Deadline: 15 June)
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 ›
Call for Submissions: Inaugural Toyin Fálọlá Prize (2020)
We are delighted to share that the inaugural Toyin Fálọlá Prize has been announced by the team at LUNARIS. Submissions will open 01 January 2020 and will close again on 15 April 2020. The Prize has been created in honour… Read More ›
Call for Submissions: Geko Mofolo Prize (Deadline: 31 July)
We are delighted to share the news that submissions have opened for the Geko Mofolo Prize for Outstanding Fiction in Sesotho. The Prize is awarded in July in South Africa and its submissions are open to all Basotho in the continent… Read More ›
CFP: Special Issue: New Approaches to Literary Activism in 21st Century Africa, Deadline 10 July 2018
New Approaches to Literary Activism in 21st Century Africa Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies Guest Editors: Ruth Bush, Madhu Krishnan, Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire & Kate Wallis Deadline: 10 July 2018 (abstracts submitted by 10 June 2018 will also be… Read More ›
Call for Applications / Appel à candidature: Arts Management and Literary Entrepreneurship Workshop, 4th Annual Writivism Festival, 22-25 August 2016, Kampala, Deadline 29 July 2016
DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR 3 DAYS to midnight (GMT+1) Friday 29 July 2016 Call for Applications / Appel à candidature: Arts Management and Literary Entrepreneurship Workshop at the 4th Annual Writivism Festival 22-25 August 2016 Kampala, Uganda Have you set up or… Read More ›
Saraba Manuscript Project
Saraba Magazine is announcing a call for submissions for the Saraba Manuscript Project. Saraba Magazine, Nigeria’s preeminent literary magazine based out of Lagos, has been championing the work of emerging writers from Nigeria and the rest of Africa since 2009…. Read More ›
Musing On The Etisalat Prize For ‘Fiction’ – Sorry ‘Literature’
AiW Guest Toni Kan Literary prizes are strange animals. As subjective as they often are, they usually confer immediate entrée into the rarefied heights of the literary canon. And because they are strange animals, one is almost never surprised when… Read More ›
Francophone Postcolonial Studies and Book Culture, 22 & 23 November 2013
Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies In association with Liverpool University Press Annual Conference Francophone Postcolonial Studies and Book Culture Friday 22 & Saturday 23 November 2013 Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E… Read More ›
‘Deliver us from Evil’: A Review of Tope Folarin’s ‘Miracle’
AiW Guest Gbemisola Abiola. Tope Folarin’s Miracle depicts the prevailing belief in Christian supernaturalism, and the apparent promise of prosperity it holds for the African adherent, as the means of achieving success in the Diasporas. While the story is set in… Read More ›
Literary Prizes: Joining the Caine Prize ‘Blog-Carnival’
Last week saw the announcement of the shortlist for the 14th Caine Prize for African Writing. The shortlist of 5 stories was selected by judges Gus Casely-Hayford (Chair), Sokari Douglas Camp, John Sutherland, Nathan Hensley and Leila Aboulela out of… Read More ›
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