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Trinidad and Tobago’s Bocas Lit Fest 2025 starts May 1.
The Bocas Lit Fest 2025, with the theme “Always coming home”, returns to Port of Spain for its fifteenth edition from May 1 – 4, 2025. The Bocas Lit Fest is a literary festival that takes place annually in the Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Inaugurated in 2011, it is the first major literary…
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Neneh Cherry on UK Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 shortlist
Neneh Cherry’s memoir A Thousand Threads is on the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction 2025, announced Tuesday, March 26, 2025. The Women’s Prize is awarded annually to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom in the preceding year. Previous winners include Zadie…
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Percival Everett on Dublin International Literary Award 2025 shortlist
Percival Everett’s novel Jamesis is on the Dublin International Literary Award 2025 shortlist announced on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. The Dublin International Literary Award is presented annually for a novel written in English or translated into English to promote excellence in world literature. The prize worth €100,000 is sponsored by the Dublin City Council, Ireland.…
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Legendary Black Orpheus Journal now available in digital format
The Black Orpheus: A Journal of African and Afro-American Literature is now available in digital format courtesy of Olongo Africa. Black Orpheus: A Journal of African and Afro-American Literature was a Nigeria-based literary journal founded by German expatriate editor and scholar Ulli Beier in 1957. It has had several editors since its first edition in…
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Zanzibar Book Fair 2025 starts May 23
The second edition of the Zanzibar Book Fair 2025 will be hosted in the East African nation from May 23 – 25, 2025. The Zanzibar Book Fair, a celebration of Zanzibari literature, was first hosted by the Zanzibar Renaissance Literary Society in 2023. It was a meeting place for local and global writers to exchange…
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Windham-Campbell Prize 2025 recipients announced
Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini, Patricia J. Williams, Roy Williams, and Tongo Eisen-Martin are among the recipients of the Windham-Campbell Prize 2025 announced on Monday, March 24, 2025. The Windham-Campbell Prize rewards eight writers who write in English and live in any part of the world for literary achievement across four categories – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and…
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US National Book Critics Circle Awards 2024 winners announced
Hisham Matar and Hanif Abdurraqib are among the US National Book Critics Circle Awards 2024 winners announced in New York, USA on Thursday, March 20, 2025. The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) celebrates the best books published in English in Fiction, Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, and Criticism in the United States since 1974. Finalists are…
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Veronique Tadjo wins Prix Ahmadou Kourouma 2025
Veronique Tadjo’s novel Je Remercie La Nuit has been declared the Prix Ahmadou Kourouma 2025 winner in Geneva, Switzerland on Friday, March 21, 2025. Ahmadou Kourouma was a legendary Ivorian novelist who wrote many titles, including Les Soleils des indépendances (1968), Le Diseur de verité (1972), and the most famous Allah n’est pas oblige (2000), which was translated to Allah Is…
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Hemley Boum wins Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie 2025
Hemley Boum’s novel Le Rêve Du Pêcheur won Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie 2025 in Paris, France on Thursday, March 20, 2025. Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie (English: Five Continents Prize of the Francophonie) was established by the International Organization of the Francophonie in 2001. Worth €15,000, it is aimed at…
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Writing Africa Needs Your Help!
Writing Africa, the leading archive Preserving & Promoting African and Black Literature, has today started a campaign to ensure that it survives the current rough economic times.
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Tigest Girma on Australia Book Industry Awards 2025 shortlist
Tigest Girma is on the Australia Book Industry Awards 2025 shortlist announced in Melbourne, Australia on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. The Australian Book Industry Awards are publishers’ and literary awards held by the Australian Publishers Association annually in Sydney since 2006. Works are selected by an academy of more than 200 industry professionals, and then…
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Legendary UK novelist Alex Wheatle has passed away
Legendary UK novelist Alex Wheatle passed away from prostate cancer in London on Sunday, March 16, 2025. Alex Wheatle was born to Jamaican parents on January 3, 1963, grew up in children’s homes, and began by writing lyrics then progressed to poetry, short stories, and novels. His first novel, Brixton Rock, about a troubled London…
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British Science Fiction Awards 2024 finalists announced
Wole Talabi and Eugen Bacon are among the British Science Fiction Awards 2024 finalists announced on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. The British Science Fiction Awards, a production of the British Science Fiction Association, have been presented annually since 1970. The awards are voted on by members of the British Science Fiction Association and by the…
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Book Digest: Abdulrazak Gurnah, Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva, Kennedy Ryan, Tracy Deonn
Our regular Book Digest segment spotlights new books from Abdulrazak Gurnah, Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva, Kennedy Ryan, and Tracy Deonn. Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah Publisher: Random HouseDate: March 18, 2025Genre: FictionLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Penguin Random House, Bloomsbury Abdulrazak Gurnah Abdulrazak Gurnah is the 2021 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the…
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UK’s Jhalak Prize 2025 longlist announced
The Jhalak Prize 2025 longlist was announced in London, UK on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. Here are the writers of African descent in the running. The Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour is an annual literary prize awarded to British or British-resident BAME (Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic) writers…
