Category: Fellowships
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LOATAD Black Atlantic Residency 2024 fellows announced
The fellows of the LOATAD Black Atlantic Residency 2024 were announced in Accra, Ghana on Monday, January 29, 2024. The Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD) is a private library, archive, writing residency, and museum dedicated to the work of African and Diaspora writers from the late 19th century to the present day.…
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Debunk Barbara Achermann Fellowship recipients announced.
The recipients of the Debunk Barbara Achermann Fellowship were announced in Nairobi, Kenya on Monday, January 8, 2024. Barbara Achermann is a Swiss journalist and author. She is deputy editor-in-chief of Das MAGAZIN, a magazine that cultivates in-depth reporting and investigative journalism. The Swiss partnered with Kenyan-based Debunk Media for a new fellowship for writers…
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Sierra Leone’s Poda Poda Stories Fellows announced
Josephine Kamara and Sulaiman Munda Bonnie were introduced as the new Poda Poda Stories Fellows on Monday, September 25, 2023. Poda-Poda Stories is a Sierra Leonean literary platform that publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and literary criticism by emerging and established Sierra Leonean writers. Founded in 2020 by Sierra Leonean writer and journalist Ngozi Cole, the…
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Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Logan February are DAAD Berlin Artist-in-Residents 2024
Fiston Mwanza Mujila and Logan February are among the artists in the DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Resident program 2024 announced on October 7, 2023. The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program has been awarded internationally highly regarded fellowships since 1963. Over 1000 outstanding international visual artists, authors, filmmakers, composers, and sound artists have been invited to live and work in…
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Gabrielle Emem Harry, Yanjanani L. Banda are Literary Laddership 2023 Recipients
Gabrielle Emem Harry and Yanjanani L. Banda were named the recipients of The Literary Laddership for Emerging African Authors 2023 on Friday, June 2, 2023. In 2022, Nigerian fantasy, science fiction, and speculative writer and academic Suyi Davies Okungbowa announced a new fellowship he called “The Literary Laddership for Emerging African Authors.” It was aimed…
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Moraa Gitaa is writer-in-residence at Hungary’s Institute for Advanced Studies
Moraa Gitaa is a writer-in-residence at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Other Africans at the fellowship are Clement Emeka Akpang and Adaora Osondu-Oti. Hungary-based Institute for Advanced Studies Central European University has one Writer in Residence fellowship and one Visual/New Media Artist in Residence fellowship to provide selected…
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Zukiswa Wanner is Moi University African Cluster Centre Artist-in-Residence.
Zukiswa Wanner was announced as the new Artist-in-Residence at the Moi University African Cluster Centre in Eldoret, Kenya from September – December 2022 on August 28, 2022. Germany’s Bayreuth University appointed Moi University to its African Cluster Centre program in African studies in 2019. Bayreuth sees a cluster as a transformative space to systematically advance…
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Olaposi Halim, Davina Kawuma are inaugural Literary Laddership Recipients
Olaposi Halim and Davina Kawuma were revealed to the first recipients of The Literary Laddership for Emerging African Authors on Thursday, June 30, 2022. In May, Nigerian fantasy, science fiction and speculative writer and academic Suyi Davies Okungbowa announced a new fellowship he called “The Literary Laddership for Emerging African Authors.” It was aimed at…
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Short Story Day Africa Inkubator fellows announced.
The twelve writers taking part in the Inkubator Program, designed by Short Story Day Africa and Laxfield Literary Associates, have been announced today. In the last few years, Short Story Day Africa has built its name as an organisation that focuses on writers and their needs. Their most popular projects have been the Short Story…
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Suyi Davies Okungbowa establishes fellowship for emerging African authors.
Suyi Davies Okungbowa revealed the new fellowship “The Literary Laddership for Emerging African Authors” on May 4, 2022. Suyi Davies Okungbowa is a Nigerian fantasy, science fiction and speculative writer and academic currently based in Ottawa, Canada. He is the author of The Nameless Republic epic fantasy trilogy, beginning with Son of the Storm (Orbit,…
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Library of Africa and African Diaspora announces West African Writer fellowship residents.
The Accra-based Library of Africa and the African Diaspora announced the residents for the West African Writer fellowship on February 22, 2022. The Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora is a research library, archive, writing residency, and research institute dedicated to the work of African and Diaspora writers from the late 19th-century to the…
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Opportunities for writers, poets and publishers for May 2021.
In our continuing series, we share opportunities for those who wish to submit work be it poetry, prose, or other related arts in May 2021. The Grand Prix Panafricain de Littérature The Grand Prix Panafricain de Littérature, the most ambitious pan African literary prize yet, is open to all African writers wherever they are who…
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Hanif Abdurraqib, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma receive Lannan Literary Fellowships 2020
Hanif Abdurraqib and Novuyo Rosa Tshuma were announced recipients of Lannan Literary Fellowships on November 21, 2020. The Lannan Literary Awards and Fellowships were established to honour both established and emerging writers whose work is of exceptional quality in 1989. The awards recognize writers who have made significant contributions to English-language literature. The fellowships recognize…
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NoViolet Bulawayo, Simphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, Malebo Sephodi for Johannesburg Institute Fellowships.
The Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study Writing Fellowships announced its fellows for 2020 on October 26, 2019. The Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS) is a joint initiative of the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Its purpose is to promote advanced research in the humanities and natural sciences, beyond the…
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Nkiacha Atemnkeng, Sada Malumfashi start Sylt Fellowship 2018.
Nkiacha Atemnkeng and Sada Malumfashi have started their Sylt Fellowship in the North of Germany. The residency runs from November 1, 2018, to January 31, 2019. The Sylt Foundation, founded by Indra Wussow, initiates and supports innovative contemporary literary, visual art, and performance projects with the aim of encouraging cultural dialogue and artistic interaction. In…