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Lis Anna-Langston Wins the 2020 Independent Press Award for Best New Fiction

May 15, 2020by Ernest Ogunyemi0

Lis Anna-Langston from South Carolina wins the 2020 Independent Press Award in the Best New Fiction category for her book Tupelo Honey. A young adult novel, Tupelo Honey, is set in rural Mississippi and follows the life of the eponymous character, Tupelo Honey, and her “pretty dysfunctional family”. From a mother who is a drug...

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Two Nigerians Make the Society of Authors Awards 2020 Shortlist

May 14, 2020by Ernest Ogunyemi0

Today, the 14th of May, 2020, the Society of Authors announced the shortlists in five awards categories: Betty Trask, McKitterick, ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Awards, the Paul Torday Memorial Prize, and the inaugural Queen’s Knickers Award. The awards fund, which is to be shared among the winners in each category, is £100,000. The shortlist of 29...

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The Nigerian Writer Pemi Aguda Wins the 2020 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award

May 13, 2020by Ernest Ogunyemi1

The Nigerian writer Pemi Aguda – winner of the Writivism Short Story Prize in 2015 for her story “Caterer, Caterer”, and who was shortlisted last year for the Brittle Paper Award for Fiction for her short story “24 Alhaji Williams Street“, for which she was also a finalist for the US National Magazines Award this...

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Obinna Udenwe’s Short Story, “It Has to Do With Emilia”, Optioned for Film and Television by BUMP Films

May 9, 2020by Ernest Ogunyemi0

“It Has to Do With Emilia“, a short story by Obinna Udenwe, which was published online by AFREADA three years ago, has been optioned for film and television by Johannesburg Film Producer Bridget Pickering at BUMP Films. “It Has to Do With Emilia” has been described as “a moody and sophisticated exploration of a forbidden...

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The K & L Prize 2020 Longlist

May 6, 2020by Ernest Ogunyemi4

The longlist for the 2020 K & L Prize has been released. The K & L Prize, which is sponsored by Myles Ojabo and is worth $1000 in cash prize, this year called for submissions on the theme of Afrofuturism from writers between the ages of 18 and 25. The longlist of ten writers, which...

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The Commonwealth Short Story Prize Shortlist 2020

Apr 21, 2020by Ernest Ogunyemi3

The Commonwealth Short Story Prize, which is awarded yearly to the best short fiction pieces of below 5000 words and is worth £15,000 in cash prizes, released its shortlist on the 20th of April, 2020. Twenty writers and twenty stories are in the run for the overall prize this year; five of the twenty writers...

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The Full Story: Former Deputy Editor, Otosirieze Obi-Young and Brittle Paper Founder, Ainehi Edoro Are Locked In A Theatrical War

Apr 17, 2020by Ernest Ogunyemi0

On April 14, 2020, Hadiza El-Rufai, wife of the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, and author of the novel An Abundance of Scorpions (Ouida), wrote on Twitter that “All is fair in love and war”, a statement that caused an outrage. This was in defense of an obscene tweet by her son, Bello El-Rufai....

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