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Features, Lit Scene, News April 8, 2020

Join Down River Road Magazine’s Virtual Book Club, Currently Reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez | #drrbookclub

down river road, the new Nairobi-based magazine exploring the alternative in literature, music, and visual art, has launched an online reading project. In “a reality that forces us to curtail how we gather,” the drr virtual book club, one of the magazine’s editors Frankline Sunday tells us, is its way of seeking “other ways of communing.” […]

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Features, Lit Scene, News February 21, 2020

Down River Road, a New Print & Online Magazine Exploring the Alternative in Literature, Music, & Visual Art, Calls for Submissions to Second Issue

A new Nairobi-based print and online magazine, down river road, is exploring the margins, the shifting centers, and the new spaces through literature, music, and visual art. In an email to Brittle Paper, one of its editors Frankline Sunday described it as being interested in “alternative forms of creating and expression.” Its first print issue, […]

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Features, Lit Scene, News December 9, 2019

The 2019 Brittle Paper Anniversary Award: Meet The 6 Finalists

The 5 Shortlists for The 2019 Brittle Paper Awards were announced in November. Begun in 2017 to mark our seventh anniversary, the Awards aim to recognize the finest, original pieces of writing by Africans published online. READ: The 2017 Brittle Paper Anniversary Award: Meet the Nominees READ: The 2018 Brittle Paper Anniversary Award: Meet the 8 Finalists The $1,100 prize money is split […]

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Features November 19, 2019

The 2019 Brittle Paper Awards: Announcing The 5 Shortlists

We are excited to announce The 5 Shortlists for the 2019 Brittle Paper Awards. Launched in 2017 to mark our seventh anniversary, the annual Awards aim to recognize the finest, original pieces of literary writing by Africans published online — writing that has prompted, enhanced, or defined conversations. The $1,100 cash prize is split across five categories: The […]

The Kenyan Literary Hustle | Carey Baraka

1. Writing this, now, at this temporal moment, means that I am not finalizing my application for a fellowship I’m applying to whose deadline is today. This is one of the things: that I’m applying for a fellowship, at the urging of YAO, and BK, who, some time last year told me to look outwards, […]

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African Literary Digest: 101 Notable Pieces of 2018

It was inevitable: compiling a list as monstrous as this would consume time, cause a delay. But here we are. 2018 came with its own firsts and highs. A new major publishing house came on board: The Indigo Press, founded by the distinguished Zimbabwean editor and critic Ellah Allfrey. A new major magazine: Kabaka, dedicated to publishing queer-centered […]

Regarding Erasure and Enkare Review: Statement from the Collective

This is a statement from the Enkare Review Collective. ON JUNE 8th 2018, the Enkare Review Collective (13 person team named below), lost access to its platform. The password was changed, and eventually the entire website deleted. Select parts of the site were then restored on the evening of June 9th and our official […]

African Literary Digest: 79 Notable Pieces of 2017

It isn’t that time of the year when we look back on what happened in it—that time is December, and this is February. But a delay in releasing this list seemed inevitable for a year that, on several levels, saw our literary culture expand. Organisations took groundbreaking steps: in March, Jalada Africa held a 12-city, […]