Monica Ali and Suzannah Lipscomb have been unveiled as the chairs of the judging panels for the 2024 Women’s Prize...
The Booker Prize Foundation in England has announced another competition–not between books or authors or publishers, but between book clubs....
At least 63% of authors and illustrators in the UK saw a fall in their income in 2020 compared to...
Fiction authors Steven Dunn and Tope Folarin and dramatists Jordan E. Cooper and Sylvia Khoury are among this year’s winners...
The Flora Nwapa Prize for Feminist Writing is an annual award for the best-unpublished work of fiction or non-fiction written...
There are five writers of African descent on the Windham-Campbell Prize 2021 list announced on March 22, 2021. The Windham-Campbell...
This year’s Maria Edgeworth Festival will take place online For 2021 The Maria Edgeworth Literary Festival is going virtual from...
The longlist for the UK Women’s Prize for Literature 2021, featuring four African writers, was announced on March 10, 2021....
The Time of the Writer 2021, one of the continent’s longest-running literary festivals, broadcasts from Durban, South Africa from March...
The longlists for the Jhalak Prize 2021, for adults, YA, and Children were announced today, March 9, 2021. The Jhalak...
The Swahili Literary Festival 2021 which happens at the Kilindini Cultural Centre, Mombasa kicked off today and runs until March...
Kendeka Prize for African Literature is honoured to announce Lucas Wafula (Kenya), Renee Edwige Dro (Côte d’Ivoire) and Remy Ngamije...