DepositPhotos Gallery of Sad Silhouettes We are translucent before the sun Our bodies dance in resilient cloth of late hours, Beasts, men and kids encapsulate sober color of darkness in their fleshes. We are one with the sun when it walks away from the sky like weary farmers do from unyielding earth, And in the goodness of the sinking sun visits our bitterness like the busy buzzing of bees. What we closed opens when the day closes and we all work the golden hour with amber colors, The anxiety of a father of four falls back to him, Worries of a boy child war his heart  Vulnerability of the ..read more

Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest is open for submission. Now in its 20th year, the contest seeks the best humor poems with the 1st prize being $2000 and a two-year gift certificate from Duotrope. The contest which opened in August, 2020 is seeking both published and unpublished work. There is no entry fee required when submitting. The judging panel consists Jendi Reiter and Lauren Singer Ledoux as an assistant. Prizes: First Prize: $2,000 plus a two-year gift certificate from Duotrope (a $100 value) Second Prize: $500 Honorable Mentions: 10 awards of $100 each Top 12 entries ..read more

Awakened Voices seeks writers for its upcoming issue. The issue #12 to be published in June 2021 is centered around survival of sexual violence and healing. The issue will feature works in flash fiction, fiction, vignette, and graphic/visual work. Awakened Voices is a literary branch of Awakenings which helps survivors of sexual violence find peace and healing while simultaneously challenging the cultural taboos that prevent an honest discussion of sexual violence. The magazine is offering $12 for each piece that is accepted for publication. Deadline for submission is February 1, 2021. For su ..read more

Image by Poets In Nigeria (PIN) Nigerian poet, Ola W. Halim has been announced as winner of the PIN Food Poetry Contest 2020 edition. Following the announcement of a shortlist of 10 entries last December, Poets in Nigeria announced the three winners whose entries emerged from a pool of 149 valid entries. The winners include: 1st Prize: “GARRI: ’67-’70” by Ola W. Halim 2nd Prize:   “OUR DREAMS HAVE COOKED TOO LONG” by Yusuff Uthman Adekola 3rd Prize: “THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO EASE A BOILING POT” by Roseline Mgbodichinma Anya Okorie The three prize winners will be awarded N15,0 ..read more

Glass Door Initiative and Poets in Nigeria (PIN) are pleased to announce the call for submissions for the 4th edition of Poetically Written Prose. Initiated in 2017, the contest seeks to discover outstanding prose works exuding the aura of poetry. The contest is open to everyone in all parts of the world. Poets In Nigeria has since invited every writer to submit their enchanting prose works embellished with poetic devices. The contest prizes are split in 3, with the 1st prize being ₦25,000, 2nd prize ₦15,000 while the 3rd runner up winner gets to walk away with ₦10,000. Previous winners of th ..read more

Namwali Serpell 2015 Caine Prize winner, Namwali Serpell has been announced as the recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize 2020. Serpell who is also author of the novel The Old Drift was announced winner at a ceremony in London on Thursday 19th March, 2020, being the only winner of interest to watchers of the African literary scene. The US$165,000 Windham-Campbell Prize administered by the Beinecke Rare Book and the Manuscript Library at Yale University, was established with a gift from the late Donald Windham in memory of his partner of 40 years, Sandy M. Campbell in 2013. Serpell is a Zamb ..read more

Anne Giwa-AmuUK based Nigerian-Welsh author, Anne Giwa-Amu has continued to fight Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for allegedly plagiarising her work with support from legendary writer, Chinua Achebe. Giwa-Amu whose claim was thrown out of court in February 2019 has continued to claim copyright infringement against Adichie as she claims that a substantial amount of original material found in the novel SADE, an earlier copyright work also appears in Half of A Yellow Sun, a novel written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Adichie’s literary agents, the Wylie Agency has however, described the claim as false ..read more

British author Bernardine Evaristo poses with her book Girl, Woman, OtherBernadine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other, has been longlisted for the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Now in its 25th year, the prize seeks to celebrate the very best full-length fiction written by women throughout the world. After winning the Booker Prize for Fiction alongside Margaret Artwood’s The Testaments in 2019, Girl, Woman, Other has done tremendously well across the globe. The masterpiece revolves around the lives of Black British women and has been hailed as ambitious and linguistically inventive. Others on ..read more

Chishimba Malisawa, 20, has broken into the literary scene in Zambia with a seemingly topnotch inspirational book that unleashes the perception of the future, adding light to one of humanity’s greatest illusion. The writer’s debut book, titled HENCE THE FUTURE, is a clear cut that pierces through the future and seeks to explain the erroneous concept perceived in the shadows of what spirals ahead. DNK PublishersThe book is published by DNK publishers, and is one of the brilliant pieces to have been written by what we can call a new wave of writers in Zambia. Chishimba’s works have over the past ..read more

Zambian writer, Mbozi Haimbe has been shortlisted for the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story prize 2019 for her story Madam’s Sister. The women-dominated shortlist of 21 stories was announced on Wednesday, 10th April, 2019, chosen from 5,081 entries from 50 commonwealth countries around the globe. Now in its eighth year, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded annually for the best piece of unpublished short fiction from the Commonwealth. Chair of the Judges, British novelist, playwright and essayist Caryl Phillips who described the authors as daring said: “the vitality and importanc ..read more