April 2011

Klorofyl, the literary, graphic art and lifestyle magazine, is calling for submissions to be published in its lifestyle section. Topics are open to discussion. What do YOU like to read about? Sports: Your favourite. Football, Tennis, Basket Ball, Quidditch? Tell us something we don’t already know. Music: Review albums of your best artistes, introduce us […]

… With Helon Habila, Diana Evans and Jamal Mahjoub Applications have opened for the 4th Edition of the annual Fidelity Bank Creative Writing Workshop. The workshop is a component of Fidelity’s corporate Social Responsibility, through which the bank seeks to promote literature. The workshop will be holding in Abuja. Helon Habila, Diana Evans and Jamal […]

Saraba, an electronic literary magazine just announced the release of its 8th Issue. It was released on 15th April, 2011. In previous editions, Saraba magazine explored themes as diverse as Family, City Life, Economy, Niger Delta, Religion/God, and Technology. Contributing authors ranged from not-too-known budding writers to well-known, professional ones. They have published writers mostly […]

Jude Dibia recently judged the Sentinel Literary Quarterly Short Story Competition (April 2011), the results will be announced by April 30th, 2011. <!–[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 However, Jude Dibia has given up his judges fees. He insists that the fees should be used for the promotion […]

Piousbox joint Computational Arts Corp. announcesBest Travel Story Contest 2011 This contest seeks to promote cross-cultural understanding and optimistic traveling. The way people travel now-a-days is subject to several options: they travel for work, travel for study (semester abroad, exchange student, travel for academic events), or they travel for entertainment (travel to see a concert, […]

The results for the African writing prize for flash fiction 2011 have been published. Eight writers had their stories shortlisted for the prize. Here is the list of winners. Brother’s Keeper Osemhen Akhibi Nigeria Making Sense Bev Clark Zimbabwe Prey Jeff Unaegbu Nigeria Settling Jayne Bauling South Africa The Fare Saaleha Idrees Bamjee South Africa […]

The Tenth Glass Woman Prize will be awarded for a work of short fiction or creative non-fiction (prose) written by a woman. Length: between 50 and 5,000 words. The top prize for the tenth Glass Woman Prize award is US $500 and possible (but not obligatory) online publication; there will also be one runner up […]