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Submissions are now open to Grist’s 4th Imagine 2200 climate fiction contest. If you have a short story envisioning the future of climate progress, go ahead and submit by the deadline of June 24. Founded in 1999, Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to highlighting climate solutions and uncovering environmental injustices. Since 2020 ..read more
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If I ever really saw you there In her arms I’d scream a silent scream Insides tearing up Making me pine If I ever really saw you there In her bed Coming out of a dream My insides would reel And I’d only think or imagine it Coming out of a dream Perhaps I’d ..read more
African Studies Association Establishes Ken Harrow Film Fund in Honor of Late African Cinema Scholar
Brittle Paper | An African Literary Blog
2d ago
The African Studies Association (ASA) recently announced the creation of two exciting ventures – the Ken Harrow ASA Film Fund to support scholarship on African film in honor of late African cinema scholar Kenneth Harrow as well as the Sembène-Kelani Film Prize, awarded to an outstanding film by an African filmmaker. Established in 1957, the ..read more
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South African singer Tutu Puoane’s new album Wrapped in Rhythm (Vol. I) features the poetry of South African poet Lebogang Mashile. The blend of Puoane’s vocals with Mashile’s words is absolutely stunning! Tutu Puoane is a South African Jazz singer. She studied jazz vocals at the University of Cape Town and received several awards from ..read more
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Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo has a lecture coming up titled “The Stories We Make Up and The Stories That Make Us”. Organized by Gresham College for their Annual Lecture Series, the talk will take place in London on June 25. Evaristo’s lecture will explore how story-making is a conscious act of speaking ourselves into ..read more
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And a wounded existence with bleeding soul— Sore void etching surrender on half-eaten sun beaten out of conforming, it drapes in aloneness. The joy of marsh meshed in grain of its dreams. Father said it’s weight on its heaviness. All low lands lends a rejoicing, their eaters—gods of humankind. All hard pressings all slip ..read more
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Nigerian writer Ani Kayode Somtochukwu has won the 2024 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction for his 2023 novel And Then He Sang a Lullaby. Inaugurated in May 2006, this award recognizes outstanding first novels or story collections by LGBTQ authors and the winner receives a prize of $1000. This award honors the distinguished Edmund ..read more
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6d ago
Nigerian author Marvellous “Marve” Michael Anson has an exciting Yoruba fantasy trilogy titled Firstborn of the Sun set to publish with Penguin Michael Joseph, a division of Penguin Books UK. The first book of the trilogy will be released in 2025. Anson’s trilogy is highly anticipated since the first book in the series was shortlisted ..read more
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Submissions are now open for the 8th edition of the annual Quramo Writers’ Prize (QWP). Unpublished Nigerian and African writers are eligible to submit a fiction prose manuscript by the deadline of May 31. The Quramo Writers’ Prize was created in 2017 by Quramo Publishing Ltd. (QPL) as an avenue for fresh writers to showcase ..read more
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On the morning of the 25th April 1974 in Lisbon, a military coup overthrew the regime that had ruled Portugal since 1926. The coup was led by young army officers and their motivations were multiple, but the fact that Portugal had been fighting wars in Africa since 1961 was critical. The officers resented being forced ..read more