Acclaimed American children’s author and folklorist Jane Yolen, whose prolific six-decade career produced 450 books…
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The Quramo Writers’ Prize (QWP) is back and calling on African writers to unleash their…
Monica Ali and Suzannah Lipscomb have been unveiled as the chairs of the judging panels…
The Booker Prize Foundation in England has announced another competition–not between books or authors or…
At least 63% of authors and illustrators in the UK saw a fall in their…
Fiction authors Steven Dunn and Tope Folarin and dramatists Jordan E. Cooper and Sylvia Khoury…
The Flora Nwapa Prize for Feminist Writing is an annual award for the best-unpublished work…
There are five writers of African descent on the Windham-Campbell Prize 2021 list announced on…
This year’s Maria Edgeworth Festival will take place online For 2021 The Maria Edgeworth Literary…
The longlist for the UK Women’s Prize for Literature 2021, featuring four African writers, was…
The Time of the Writer 2021, one of the continent’s longest-running literary festivals, broadcasts from…
The longlists for the Jhalak Prize 2021, for adults, YA, and Children were announced today,…










