Tag: Karen Jennings

  • Island Prize 2022 shortlist announced.

    Island Prize 2022 shortlist announced.

    The shortlist for inaugural Island Prize for a Debut Novel from Africa was announced on April 16, 2022. The Island Prize for a Debut Novel from Africa is a prize from Holland House Books (UK), Karavan Press (SA) as well as Booker Prize longlistee Karen Jennings. It is aimed at giving writers from Africa (or…

  • Island Prize for a Debut Novel 2022 longlist announced.

    Island Prize for a Debut Novel 2022 longlist announced.

    The longlist for inaugural Island Prize for a Debut Novel from Africa was announced on Monday, February 7, 2022. The Island Prize for a Debut Novel from Africa is a prize from Holland House Books (UK), Karavan Press (SA) as well as Booker Prize longlistee Karen Jennings. It is aimed at giving writers from Africa…

  • Meet the judges for the Writivism Fiction and Nonfiction prizes for 2019.

    Meet the judges for the Writivism Fiction and Nonfiction prizes for 2019.

    The judges for the Writivism Short Story Prize 2019 and the Koffi Addo Prize for Nonfiction 2019 were announced on December 5, 2018. Writivism is an organisation that does activities around the writing ecosystem. Based out of a Kampala, Uganda headquarters, the organisation organises a literary festival, an annual writing competition, mentoring for young writers…

  • Donald Molosi on winning Bessie Head Short Story Awards.

    Donald Molosi on winning Bessie Head Short Story Awards.

    The winner of this year’s Bessie Head Short Story Awards 2015 is Donald Molosi his story The Biggest Continent. He gets the first place prize money of 2 000 pula (about R2 900) courtesy of Diamond Educational Publishers. He was awarded ahead of Siyanda Mohutsiwa came second for And Then We Disappeared into Some Guy’s…

  • Morland Writing Scholarship Awards 2015 winners announced

    Morland Writing Scholarship Awards 2015 winners announced

    The Miles Morland Foundation has just announced the winners of Morland Writing Scholarships for 2015. The winners each receive a grant of ₤18,000 to allow them to take a year to write a book. This year for the first time there are two non-fiction awards of £27,000 to be paid over a year and a…

  • Morland Writing Scholarships 2015 shortlist announced

    Morland Writing Scholarships 2015 shortlist announced

    The Miles Morland Foundation has just announced the shortlist for the 2015 Morland Writing Scholarships. These applicants will be whittled down to four on December 14th by the judges Ellah Allfrey who is chair, Olufemi Terry, and Muthoni Garland and announced shortly after. The list features a healthy list of twenty-one applicants with seven from…

  • Cynthia Jele short story to kick off Long Story Short Project

    Cynthia Jele short story to kick off Long Story Short Project

    There are so many events in and around the African Literature sphere in the very recent. One of the ones which I have been tracking and that interests me very much is the Long Story Short project which is the brainchild of Yewande Omotoso. Omotoso for the uninformed most recently was announced as one of…

  • The Sunday Salon with Noviolet, Jennings and Yewande

    The Sunday Salon with Noviolet, Jennings and Yewande

    The Sunday Salon. It came to us in 2008 as a new space Nairobians could enjoy listening to literature apart from the Kwani Open Mic which had become a bit crazy with the drinking in that gig going into the wee hours of the next morning. In that year, we had writers like Muthoni Garland,…

  • Noviolet Bulawayo, Karen Jennings and Yewande Omotoso for Nairobi

    Noviolet Bulawayo, Karen Jennings and Yewande Omotoso for Nairobi

    Noviolet Bulawayo, Karen Jennings, and Yewande Omotoso who were shortlisted for the Etisalat Prize for African Literature will be in Kenya next week. They will be here as part of their three-city promotion tour which was one of the prizes that they went home with when they were shortlisted. For those who want to interact…