Caleb Femi, Rachel Long, and Monique Roffey are on the shortlist of the Rathbone Folio Prize 2021 announced on Wednesday,...
Are you a Nigerian author? Do you have a banging hot manuscript? Do you think your story will wow a...
Brit Bennett, Sara Collins, Bernardine Evaristo, and Colson Whitehead are on the longlist for the Dublin International Literary Award 2021...
The Booker Prize Foundation in England has announced another competition–not between books or authors or publishers, but between book clubs....
Before Nigeria’s Independence in 1960, diverse literatures had thrived in the local languages. Pita Nwana, the author of Omenuko, blazed...
Ghana’s Entertainment Achievement Awards 2021 shortlists, featuring literary entries, were announced on February 16, 2021. The Entertainment Achievement Awards seeks...
The judges met yesterday to decide on the four new Morland Writing Scholars for 2020. This year we had 992...
The longlists for the Jhalak Prize 2021, for adults, YA, and Children were announced today, March 9, 2021. The Jhalak...
The Quramo Festival of Words, (QFest2020) climaxed with the unveiling of the winner of the Quramo Writers’ Prize 2020. The...
Kendeka Prize for African Literature is honoured to announce Lucas Wafula (Kenya), Renee Edwige Dro (Côte d’Ivoire) and Remy Ngamije...
Author Kinyanjui Kombani has dominated this year’s nominations for the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature and the Wahome Mutahi Literary...
Lupita Nyong’o’s children’s book, Sulwe, will be turned into an animated musical film, Netflix and the award-winning actress revealed. Published...