December 2018
Apply For The Society Of Authors Grants —
The Society of Authors: Contingency Funds These grants are for contingencies, to help professional writers who need a boost. The grants can be for a variety of things, including replacing a failing computer or supporting writing careers affected by illness or a domestic situation. Specific grants are also available for poets and women journalists. The […]
Nigeria’s Literary Sphere: The Major Highlights of 2018
By Izunna Okafor It is no longer a novelty that every calendar year wakes up and sleeps off with a natural book of many pages. Pages of dreams and visions, pages of imaginations and realities, pages of successes and failures, pages of joy and sorrow, pages of progress and regress, pages of victories and losses, […]
Helmets Off for the Brand New OkadaBooks!
Still an Okada, but with the speed of a Power Bike OkadaBooks, Africa’s leading digital library and publishing company has officially unveiled her all new and extremely improved android app and website. The company began in 2013 and over the years it has laid the foundation for authors to make income through easy publication, purchase […]
The Masters Review Is Accepting Short Stories and Essays For Its New Voices Category–Apply (Pay: $200 per piece)
The Masters Reviews review is currently accepting short stories and creative non-fiction for their forthcoming publication. What makes them unique is that they encourage budding writers. In fact, the Masters Review prides itself as a “Platform for Emerging Writers.”. There is no entry fee for their “New Voices” category. Who Is Eligible to Apply? Writers who […]
Opportunity for Writers: Ephemera Needs Slogans—Submit (Pay: $50 per slogan)
Every time you hear an advert or a slogan, do you think, arrggh! I could definitely do better? If you have ever dreamed of getting paid to write slogans, then you’re in luck. Ephemera might love your original meme enough to buy it. Before you start writing yours, let’s tell you more about Ephemera. Ephemera […]
More Tributes For The Late Award-Winning Poet Ikeogu Oke
By Izunna Okafor The old-century dictum that ‘a great man’s feat echoes louder behind his rear’ recently attained some justification, following the rueful demise of the great Nigerian poet and literary champion, late Chief Ikeogu Oke, the winner of the 2017 Nigeria Prize for Literature. The wave of this hideous news which started blowing on […]