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T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2024 shortlist announced
The T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2024 shortlist was announced in London, UK on Tuesday, October 1, 2024. Here are the writers of African descent on the list. T.S. Eliot, full name Thomas Stearns Eliot had the poetry collections Prufrock and Other Observations (1917), Ara Vos Prec (London), and Poems: 1920 (New York). The United…
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US National Book Awards 2024 finalists announced
The US National Book Awards 2024 finalists were announced on Tuesday, October 1, 2024. Here are the writers of African descent on the list. The US National Book Awards are literary awards from the Northern American nation’s National Book Foundation established in 1936. They are conferred on fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s…
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Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty 2024 kicks off October 9
Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty 2024 runs in Paraty, Brazil from October 9 – 13, 2024. The Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty (International Literary Festival of Paraty – FLIP) is a literary festival held annually in Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil since 2003. It was founded by Bloomsbury Publishing co-founder Liz Calder, who lived in…
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Canisia Lubrin, Eric Chacour on Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize 2024 shortlist
Canisia Lubrin and Eric Chacour are on the shortlist of Canada’s Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize 2024 announced on September 25, 2024. The Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, formerly the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, is a Canadian literary award presented by the Writers’ Trust of Canada after an annual juried competition of…
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Book Digest: Lindiwe Sangweni-Siddo, Fary Ndao, Lisa Stringfellow, Solo Niaré
In our regular Book Digest segment, we wrap up book news for our readers with books from Lindiwe Sangweni-Siddo, Fary Ndao, Lisa Stringfellow, and Solo Niaré. The Kingdom of Dust by Lisa Stringfellow Publisher: Quill Tree BooksDate: August 20, 2024Genre: Fiction, Young AdultLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Harper Collins Lisa Stringfellow Lisa Stringfellow is the…
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Global Black Women’s Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize longlist announced
The longlist for the Global Black Women’s Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize was announced on Tuesday, October 1, 2024. The new Black Women’s Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize, open to emerging and established Black women writers globally, seeks the best in unpublished non-fiction manuscripts. The first jury is chaired by award-winning author and 2019 Booker Prize recipient Bernardine Evaristo,…
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Prix Goncourt 2024 Deuxième Selection announced
The Deuxième Selection for Prix Goncourt 2024 was announced in Paris, France on Tuesday, October 1, 2024. The Prix Goncourt is given by the French Académie Goncourt to the author of “the best and most imaginative prose work of the year”. While it only has a token prize of around 10 Euros, it can increase…
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Inaugural Abuja International Poetry Festival starts November 14
The inaugural edition of the Abuja International Poetry Festival, with the theme “Afro Futurism and Digital Culture,” runs in the Nigerian capital from November 14 – 16, 2024. The first edition of the new Abuja International Poetry Festival 2024 will be curated by the Bentex Torlafia-founded Nasara Creative in November. It will be done in…
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Khalid Lyamlahy wins Prix Ethiophile 2024
Khalid Lyamlahy’s novel Évocation d’un Mémorial à Venise won Prix Ethiophile 2024 on Monday, September 30, 2024. Prix Ethiophile is an annual literary prize that rewards French-speaking, African, or Caribbean texts founded in 2015. The prize worth €1,000 alternates between the novel, poetry, theatre, and essay genres. Previous winners have been Valérie Cadignan, Beata Umubyeyi…
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Festival Littératures itinerants 2024 for Rabat on October 5
Festival Littératures itinérantes2024, with the theme “Literature and Memory,” will be hosted in Rabat, Morocco on Saturday, October 5, 2024. Festival Littératures Itinerants (English: Traveling Literature Festival) was first hosted in the Moroccan town of Salé in 2017. Since then, the festival which attracts audiences of between 10,000 and 12,000 has moved around Morocco to…
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Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature 2024 winners announced
The Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature 2024 winners were announced in Nairobi, Kenya on Saturday, September 28, 2024. The Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature celebrates Kenyan writers in the categories of fiction for adults, youth (young adults), and children in English and Kiswahili. The awards, which have been running since 1972, are given by the…
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Opportunities for writers and poets for October 2024.
In our continuing series, we share opportunities for those who wish to submit work be it poetry, prose, or other related arts in October 2024. These callouts are divided into education (MFAs, Fellowships, residencies), opportunity hubs, journals, and prizes. If you have any callouts, please share in the comments. Education (MFAs, Fellowships, residencies). Opportunity hubs…
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A snapshot of the Macondo Literary Festival 2024
A snapshot of the Macondo Literary Festival 2024 which was hosted at the Kenya National Theatre, Nairobi from September 20 – 22, 2024 The theme for this year’s Macondo Literary Festival, “The Sea is History,” was inspired by a poem of the same name by Caribbean Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott. This year, the curators extended…
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Nincemon Fallé wins Prix littéraire de la vocation 2024
Nincemon Fallé’s Ces Soleils Ardents won the Prix de la Vocation 2024 on Wednesday, September 25, 2024. The Prix Littéraire de la Vocation (English: Literary Vocation Award) was established by the Marcel-Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation to help a young French-speaking novelist aged 18 to 30 years in 1976. Previous winners include Diadié Dembélé, Kaouther Adimi, and Salim…
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Dennis Mugaa book launches in Nairobi
Dennis Mugaa’s debut short story collection Half Portraits Under Water launched at Cheche Books, Nairobi on Thursday, September 19, 2024. In the last few years, Dennis Mugaa has quietly built a reputation for producing outstanding work in the Kenyan and African literary spaces. The former Prestige Bookstore employee started learning his trade at workshops like…
