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Nadia Maddy novel Corpo Seco launches in London
Nadia Maddy’s sophomore novel Corpo Seco launched at the Africa Centre in London, UK on Wednesday, October 16, 2024. Nadia Maddy, a London-based writer with roots in Sierra Leone, is the author of The Palm Oil Stain (2011), which tackles the realities of the Sierra Leonean Civil War. Her newest novel Corpo Seco which we recently featured…
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W Paul Coates, Percival Everett feted at US National Book Awards 2024
W Paul Coates and Percival Everett are among the US National Book Awards 20204 winners announced in New York, USA on Wednesday, November 20, 2024. 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…
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Shafinaaz Hassim to curate Time of The Writer 2025
Shafinaaz Hassim is the curator of the Time of The Writer 2025 literary festival to be held in Durban, South Africa. She will work with assistant curator Thalente Ndlovu Time of the Writer is a literary festival organised by the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts, in Durban, South Africa. Usually held in March,…
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Book Digest: TL Huchu, Callie Browning, Theresa Lola, Mubanga Kalimamukwento
Our regular Book Digest segment spotlights new books from TL Huchu, Callie Browning, Theresa Lola, and Mubanga Kalimamukwento. The Legend of Arniston House by TL Huchu Publisher: Tor BooksDate: November 12, 2024Genre: FictionLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Pan Macmillan, Amazon TL Huchu T. L. Huchu has been published previously (as Tendai Huchu) in the adult…
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Literary Magazines: Weganda Review, Obsidian Lit, Will This Be A Problem?
New editions of literary magazines Obsidian Lit, Weganda Review, and Will This Be A Problem? are now available. Obsidian Lit Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora is a peer-reviewed journal published by the Publications Unit, Department of English, Illinois State University, a body corporate and politic of the State of Illinois. The magazine’s…
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Kampala Writes Literature Festival for Uganda
The inaugural Kampala Writes Literature Festival will be hosted in Uganda’s capital from December 7 – 8, 2024. The festival theme is “Writing Our Truths: Commemorating Ugandan Literature.” The Kampala Writes Literature Festival, the newest literary festival in East Africa, hopes to create a platform for authors, writers, and literature lovers to engage, support each…
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Jalada Africa’s newest anthology seeks your entries
Jalada Africa, the pan-African writers’ collective and publisher, is seeking entries for its newest anthology with the theme “Resistance.” Jalada Africa, the pan-African writers’ collective and publisher was born when writers from across the continent converged in Nairobi in 2014. They have since published many critically acclaimed anthologies as a collective and with other organisations.…
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Global Black Women’s Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize shortlist announced
The Global Black Women’s Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize shortlist was announced on Tuesday, November 19, 2024. The Black Women’s Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize, open to emerging and established Black women writers globally, seeks to celebrate the best in unpublished non-fiction manuscripts. The first jury is chaired by award-winning author and Booker Prize 2019 winner Bernardine Evaristo, Ugandan…
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LitFest Harare International Literature Festival 2024 starts November 27
LitFest Harare International Literature Festival 2024, with the theme “Stories – The Measure of Life,” runs in the Zimbabwean capital from November 27 – 30, 2024. LitFest Harare International Literature Festival or simply LitFest Harare is a literature festival hosted annually in Harare, Zimbabwe since it was founded by poet and curator Chirikure Chirikure in…
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Tottenham Literature Festival 2024 for London
The Tottenham Literature Festival 2024, North London’s Black Literature Festival, will be hosted in London, UK from November 11 – 17, 2024. The Tottenham Literature Festival was founded by Bernie Grant Arts Centre Artistic Director & CEO Hannah Azieb Pool to celebrate the word and storytelling in all its glorious forms in 2019. It was…
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Gabrielle Mudiwa wins Achmat Dangor Literary Prize 2024
Gabrielle Mudiwa was awarded the Achmat Dangor Literary Prize 2024 in Johannesburg, South Africa on Wednesday, October 30, 2024. Achmat Dangor was a South African writer, poet, and development professional. His most important works include the novels Kafka’s Curse and Bitter Fruit. He was also the author of three collections of poetry, a novella, and…
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Book Digest: Chido Muchemwa, Lynda Chouiten, Tomilola Coco Adeyemo, Dreda Say Mitchell
In our regular Book Digest segment, we spotlight new books from Chido Muchemwa, Lynda Chouiten, Tomilola Coco Adeyemo, and Dreda Say Mitchell. Who Will Bury You by Chido Muchemwa Publisher: House of Anansi Press IncDate: October 8, 2024Genre: FictionLanguage: English Where to find it: House of Anansi Press Inc Chido Muchemwa Chido Muchemwa is a…
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Trinidad author and academic Elizabeth Nunez has passed away
Trinidad and Tobago-born USA-based author and academic Elizabeth Nunez passed away in New York, USA on Monday, November 11, 2024. Elizabeth Nunez, born in Cocorite, Trinidad, on February 18, 1944, began writing as early as nine years of age and won the first-place prize for the “Tiny Tots” writing contest in the Trinidad Guardian. She…
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Ignyte Awards 2024 winners announced
The winners of the Ignyte Awards 2024, organised by US-based Fiyah Literary Magazine, were announced on Saturday, November 9, 2024. Fiyah is a quarterly speculative fiction magazine featuring stories by and about Black people of the African Diaspora based in the USA founded in 2016. In 2021, they announced that they would host FIYAHCON for…
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