September 2019
Recommended Short Stories You Can Read Online. This Edition Features Stories by Klara Kalu, Innocent Acan Immaculate, and Edith Knight.
This week’s stories are beautiful and painful and funny; all three stories from Brittle Paper. Two from the anthologies they published this year—Go the Way Your Blood Beats, edited by Ananthi Jongilanga, and The Vanguard Book of Love Stories, edited by Nonso Anyanwu—and one from their blog. I hope you enjoy them as much as […]
Win $100 in Afritondo’s Flash Fiction Contest / How To Apply
Do you love fiction? If yes, Afritondo has submitting for you. Afritondo, “the media and publishing platform that aims to connect with and tell the stories of Africans and black minority populations across the globe”, is calling for comments on their latest short story, “Looking for Papa”. This is in anticipation of their $1000 Short Story […]
Your Diabetes Story, Miss BloodSugar Calls for Submissions (Prizes: #60,000 + more)
Do you have a diabetes story, a story about your experience with diabetes? The story could be about someone who you knew, whether alive or dead, and it could be about you. Here’s your chance to tell it! Submit it to the Miss BloodSugar Contest before the deadline, October 15. Who is Eligible to […]
The “Americanah” Controversy: On Lupita Nyong’O Being Cast To Play The Role Of Ifemelu
Word came out recently that Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’O would act the lead role in the adaptation of Chimamanda’s bestselling novel, “Americanah” a miniseries; pilot-written by Danai Gurira. Lupita had met and fallen in love with the book some time in 2013 when she preordered it. In an interview, she said that she “could not […]
The No Tokens Young Poets’ Prize/ How to Apply (Prizes: $600 + more)
The No Tokens Young Poets’ Prize/ How to Apply (Prizes: $600 + more)
Recommended Short Stories You Can Read Online. This Edition Features Story By Pemi Aguda, Chimeka Garricks, and Erhu Kome Yellow.
One of the three recommended short stories this week is by a writer we know well; the two others are from writers whose name we’ll hear more and more very soon. One of the stories was published in an African mag, Agbowo’s ‘Limits’ Issue, while the two others were published in non-African mags—Barren and Zoetrope. […]
The Awele Creative Trust Award is Open for Entries
The 2019 Awele Creative Trust Award is now open for entries. An initiative of Awele Trust, it was founded in 2013 by the NLNG prize-winning novelist Chika Unigwe. The Short Story Award recognizes the best unpublished fiction by a writer living in Nigeria, irrespective of nationality, and between the ages of 16 and 26.