April 2012

Entries are being invited for the 2012 edition of the Golden Boabab Prize. The Golden Baobab Prize (GBP) is a literary award that seeks to discover, nurture, promote and celebrate promising writers of African children’s literature.  Only authors who are citizens of an African state or a dual citizenship holder are qualified. There are no […]

Farafina Trust will be holding a creative writing workshop in Lagos, organized by award-winning writer and creative director of Farafina Trust, Chimamanda Adichie, from  August 14 to August 24, 2012. The workshop is sponsored by Nigerian Breweries Plc. Guest writers, including the Caine Prize-winning Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina, and Jeffery Allen, will co-teach the workshop […]

Would you like to join the more than 100 passionate readers and writers who will help make the 2012 PEN Festival possible? PEN American Center is currently seeking volunteers for the 2012 World Voices Festival of International Literature, which will be held Monday, April 30 to Sunday, May 6.  If you are interested in serving […]

…the PG CWWN Prize for Contemporary Women’s Writing To participate in the Pineapple Prize 2012 competition, post on Facebook and Twitter, your nominations for books that in your view deserve recognition. Twitter ID: @pgcwwn (tag ‘#pineapple’) . Facebook group: Facebook group (PG CWWN)..Ensure that the name of the text and author are both mentioned! Deadline for posting […]

The Commonwealth foundation modernised the twenty-five-year-old Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the more recent Commonwealth Short Story Competition and launched two new awards in their place:  the Commonwealth Book Prize and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. According to a Commonwealth foundation newsletter, the shortlists for both prizes will be announced on 24 April. On 22 May, […]

Have you seen the SEX ISSUE? Well, it is now online! And it’s another amazing edition from Saraba magazine. It is exciting, informative and delightful. In the issue are: We Have Chosen to be Gay/Keguro MachariaMarebeta Ma Wamuyu by Nyambura KiarieWamuyu’s Poem by Nyambura KiarieSize Matters by Ivor HartmannTales One Shouldn’t Tell Often by Su’eddie […]