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Brittle Paper Call for Submissions: Festive Anthology Vol. V | Deadline: Nov 23

by Tahzeeb Akram

LATEST

Interviews November 12, 2026

“Who Do We Become When What We Love Is No Longer Ours?”: Delali Adjoa on The Free Verse Society

by Praise Okeoghene Vandeh

News November 12, 2026

Prix Goncourt Winner Philippe Jaenada Admits Using AI, a Day After Winning, as Questions of Double Standards Follow

by Blessing Uwisike

Book Excerpts November 12, 2026

Excerpt: Love, Witches And Wahala by Christine Cowan

by Submissions Editor

Book Feature November 11, 2026

Dan Nelken’s HeadStrong Brings Together Portraits and Testimonies of Working Women in Rural Uganda

by Blessing Uwisike

News November 11, 2026

Caine Prize Confirms Simbarashe Steyn Kundizeza as 2026 Winner After AI Review Finds “No Evidence” of Generative AI Use

by Blessing Uwisike

Stories and Poems November 11, 2026

The Last Canoe Carver on Ikorodu Road | Blessing Chidera Nnadozie | Fiction

by Blessing Chidera Nnadozie

Events November 11, 2026

Tọ́pẹ́-ẸniỌbańkẹ́ Adégòkè’s Two Interlocked Triangles Comes to the Wole Soyinka Theatre at Fàdákà Fest on November 28

by Blessing Uwisike

Events November 10, 2026

Sahra Noor Joins Bhakti Shringarpure for a Radical Books Collective Book Club on Salt in the Snow, November 15

by Blessing Uwisike

NEWS

News November 09, 2026

Podcast: Tope Folarin on the AI Accusations Shaking the Literary World

by Blessing Uwisike

News November 06, 2026

African Feminist Initiative Announces 2026 Grant Recipients

by Blessing Uwisike

Book Excerpts• News• Stories and Poems November 06, 2026

Brazilian Professor Translates Femi Morgan’s ‘Renegade’ Into Portuguese

by Tahzeeb Akram

News November 04, 2026

British-Nigerian Poet Theresa Lola Is a Judge for the 2027 Women’s Prize for Fiction

by Blessing Uwisike

News November 04, 2026

Goretti Kyomuhendo, Nzube Nlebedim, and Godfrey Mwampembwa Are the Fall 2026 Tejumola Olaniyan Creative Writers-in-Residence

by Blessing Uwisike

STORIES & POEMS

Stories and Poems November 09, 2026

Forgetting | Owen Habel Lwanda | Poetry

by Owen Habel Lwanda

Stories and Poems November 06, 2026

Child of the Soil | Michael Emehinola | Fiction

by Michael Emehinola

Book Excerpts• News• Stories and Poems November 06, 2026

Brazilian Professor Translates Femi Morgan’s ‘Renegade’ Into Portuguese

by Tahzeeb Akram

Stories and Poems November 04, 2026

Where Do We Go From Here | Omoregie Lawrence Jr | Poetry

by Omoregie Lawrence Jr

Stories and Poems November 02, 2026

Holy Land | Chinecherem Nnadozie | Fiction

by Chinecherem Nnadozie