Category: Fiction
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Book Digest: Cynthia Marangwanda, Frances Mensah Williams, Kalynn Bayron
Our regular Book Digest segment spotlights new books by Cynthia Marangwanda, Frances Mensah Williams, Kalynn Bayron, and Karavan Press. The Toppling by Cynthia Marangwanda Publisher: Carnelian Heart PublishingDate: September 26, 2025Genre: Fiction Language: English Where to find it: Carnelian Heart Publishing Cynthia Marangwanda Cynthia Marangwanda is a poet, writer, and cultural heritage activist. She is…
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University of Johannesburg Prize 2025 winners announced
Barbara Boswell, Siphokazi Jonas, and Shubnum Khan were announced as the University of Johannesburg Prize 2025 winners on Tuesday, September 30, 2025. The University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Writing in English, also known as the UJ Prize, was instituted in 2006. It comprises a main prize and a debut prize, given annually for…
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Opportunities for writers and poets for October 2025.
In our ongoing series, we share opportunities for those who wish to submit work in October 2025, whether it be poetry, prose, or other related arts. These callouts are divided into education (MFAs, Fellowships, residencies), opportunity hubs, journals, and prizes. Please do us a favour and mention to whoever you applied to that you got…
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Anietie Isong’s novel Radio Sunrise is now a feature film
Anietie Isong’s novel Radio Sunrise is set to be released on the big screen on Wednesday, October 1, 2025. In 2017, UK publisher Jacaranda Books introduced the African literary community to Anietie Isong’s debut novel Radio Sunrise, which explored the commodification of journalism and the socio-political realities of the Niger Delta through the lens of…
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NoViolet Bulawayo is Best of the Caine Prize winner
NoViolet Bulawayo was revealed to be the Best of the Caine Prize winner in London, UK, on Saturday, September 27, 2025. The Caine Prize for African Writing is an annual literary award that recognizes excellence in African storytelling. Presented for the best short story published in English by an African writer, it is named after…
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Book Digest: Mustapha Enesi, Melanie Raabe, Bhouria Diallo, Angela Flournoy
Our regular Book Digest segment spotlights new books by Mustapha Enesi, Melanie Raabe, Bhouria Diallo, and Angela Flournoy. I Cry at the Feet of My Other Body By Mustapha Enesi Publisher: Witsprouts BooksDate: September 20, 2025Genre: Fiction, Short StoriesLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Witsprouts Books Mustapha Enesi Mustapha Enesi is Ebira, and his work has…
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Otoniya J. Okot Bitek on Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize 2025 shortlist
Otoniya J. Okot Bitek is on the Canada’s Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize 2025 shortlist, announced on Wednesday, September 17, 2025. The Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize recognizes the best novel or short story collection by a Canadian author in the previous year. It is named in honour of the Writers’ Trust co-founders…
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Book Digest: Oyunga Pala, Mamady Koulibaly, Manthipe Moila, Brian Gyamfi
Our regular Book Digest segment spotlights new books by Oyunga Pala, Mamady Koulibaly, Manthipe Moila, and Brian Gyamfi. Strength and Sorrow by Oyunga Pala Publisher: IndependentDate: September 9, 2025Genre: NonfictionLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Oyunga Pala Oyunga Pala Oyunga Pala is a distinguished Kenyan writer, cultural commentator, and editor. For over two decades, his incisive…
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Canada’s Giller Prize 2025 longlist announced
Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, André Alexis, and Ian Williams are on the Giller Prize 2025 longlist announced on Monday, September 15, 2025. The Giller Prize, founded by Jack Rabinovitch in 1994, awards $100,000 annually to the author of the best Canadian novel, graphic novel, or short story collection published in English. The award is named…
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Nathacha Appanah, Natasha Brown on Prix Femina 2025 Premier Selection
Nathacha Appanah and Natasha Brown are on the Prix Femina 2025 Premier Selection announced in Paris, France, on Tuesday, September 9, 2025. The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created by 22 writers for the magazine La Vie heureuse (today known as Femina) in 1904. It is decided each year by an exclusively female…
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Scotland’s Saltire Literary Awards 2025 longlists announced
Mae Diansangu and Selali Fiamanya are on Scotland’s Saltire Literary Awards 2025 longlists, announced on Friday, September 12, 2025. The Saltire Literary Awards were founded to recognise books which are either by “living authors of Scottish descent or residing in Scotland,” or which deal with “the work or life of a Scot or with a…
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US National Book Awards 2025 longlists announced
The US National Book Awards 2025 longlists have been announced; here are the writers of African descent in the running. 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 literature. Some of the…
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Prix Renaudot 2025 Premier Selection announced
Nathacha Appanah and Kaouther Adimi are among the Prix Renaudot 2025 Premier Selection, announced in Paris, France, on Thursday, September 4, 2025. Prix Renaudot is a French literary prize awarded to the author of an outstanding original novel published in the previous year. It was created by ten art critics awaiting the results of the…
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Bank Windhoek Doek Literary Awards 2025 longlists announced.
The longlists for Namibia’s Bank Windhoek Doek Literary Awards 2025 were announced in Windhoek on Wednesday, September 10, 2025. The Bank Windhoek Doek Literary Awards were introduced to the African literary community in 2021 by Doek. Contributors to the Doek Magazine were entered in the categories of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and visual art for this…
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Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Literary Awards 2025 winners announced
Kodi-Anne Brown and Brandon Mc Ivor won at the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Literary Awards 2025 on Thursday, September 4, 2025. The Brooklyn Caribbean Literature Festival (BCLF) is a celebration of culture as expressed through the pen of the storyteller and the voice of the poet, executed as a series of readings of classic and…