Call for Entries: Ken Saro Wiwa Book Review Competition

The organisers of the Lagos Book and Art Festival (LABAF) have called for entries for reviews of any one of five works of Ken Saro Wiwa’s fiction and drama.

The best review of either Sozaboy, A Forest of Flowers, Adaku and Other Stories, Prisoners of Jebs, or a joint review of Basi and Company and Transistor Radio will receive a N100,000 prize money on the opening day of the Festival, at Freedom Park in Lagos, on November 13, 2015.

AFREADA Photo-Story Competition!!!

Photo credit: Urkel Ace via Instagram (ua.x)

It’s simple. Above, is a striking photograph of a young girl…

Tell us her story.

For the next couple of weeks, we’re inviting writers to spend some time with this image – take it to work, invite it out to dinner, stare at it for as long as it takes to get those creative juices flowing – then write and submit a Flash Fiction piece for the chance to win £100!

Man Booker prize 2016 won by American author Paul Beatty

Paul Beatty has become the first American writer to win the Man Booker prize, for a caustic satire on US racial politics that judges said put him up there with Mark Twain and Jonathan Swift.

The 54-year-old Los Angeles-born writer won for The Sellout, a laugh-out-loud novel whose main character wants to assert his African American identity by, outrageously and transgressively, bringing back slavery and segregation.

Bob Dylan Wins The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 is awarded to Bob Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”.

You can watch the announcement here:

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, artist and writer. Click here to know more about Bob Dylan.

Saraba Magazine Releases New Fiction Supplement, “Let’s Talk About Something Else”

 

Press Release

Saraba Magazine is delighted to announce the release of Suzanne Ushie’s new short story titled “Let’s Talk About Something Else”

“Let’s Talk About Something Else” is the compelling story of Uzilibe, a young woman who walks away from a job everyone else thinks she should have held onto. In the process, she tests the limits of a friendship, discovers the power of narrative, and perhaps finds herself.

Call for Submissions:2016 Etisalat Flash Fiction Award

How to enter

• The Prize is open to all writers of unpublished short stories (of African citizenship but can be resident anywhere in the world)
• All entries will be submitted online via the website and short stories submitted should not exceed 300 words
• Follow this link to apply: prize.etisalat.com.ng

Shortlist of three for NLNG sponsored US$100,000 literature prize emerges

PRESS RELEASE

The shortlist of three entries has been approved by the Advisory Board for The Nigeria Prize for Literature sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited. This announcement follows an initial shortlist of eleven which was released in July. The three shortlisted entries, in alphabetic order, are Born on a Tuesday (Elnathan John), Night Dancer (Chika Unigwe) and Season of Crimson Blossoms (Abubakar Adam Ibrahim).

4th Annual Writivism Short Story Prize Winner Announced

The winner of the 4th Annual Writivism Short Story Prize has just been announced at a ceremony held in Kampala, Uganda. The announcement crowns the end of yet another Writivism festival.

The 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize: Entries Open 1st September 2016

The Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words) in English written by a citizen of a Commonwealth country.

Regional winners receive £2,500 and the overall winner receives £5,000.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: SMALL ISLAND ANTHOLOGY

Deadline Wednesday 5 October (11.59pm in any time zone)

We’re inviting writers from islands in the Commonwealth* to submit stories for a new anthology.

 The anthology will include poetry, short stories, and nonfiction – which can include creative non-fiction, memoir, and photo or narrative essays – from an island perspective.