The release of Belle Burden’s divorce memoir, Strangers, has triggered a wave of marital anxiety…
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The Booker Prize Foundation has opened the submissions process for the 2027 Children’s Booker Prize.…
The prolific author and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz has admitted to using ChatGPT “all the time”…
The Mystery Writers of America (MWA) announced the winners of the 80th annual Edgar Allan…
Kenyan writer Andrew Maina launched his debut novel, My Husband, My Abductor, on April 25,…
On her part, Maryam Bukar ‘Alhanislam’ Hassan admitted to agreeing to host the event partly out of her admiration for the poetry collection, which she characterised as “sitting at the intersection of memory, politics, and identity,” as well as her close ties to Baba-Aminu, a longstanding family friend
We are honoured, and we are proud. This is what independent, Black-owned publishing is for – not as a corrective to the mainstream, but as a home. A place where a writer can debut at sixty. Where a story rooted in Black British life can be treated with the full literary ambition it deserves. We started in Abuja twenty years ago with passion and an unshakeable belief that African storytelling belonged to the world. Today, the world agrees.”
Nigerian-born poet Gbenga Adesina has been named on the five-strong shortlist for the 2026 Griffin…
The Caine Prize for African Writing has convened its 19th annual Writers’ Workshop in Stone…
Four debut authors have secured spots on the six-book shortlist for the 2026 Women’s Prize…
The 2026 edition of the Nigeria Prize for Literature has entered its adjudication phase following…
To mark World Book and Copyright Day 2026, the Committee for Relevant Art (CORA) and…