Every June is Pride Month: that time of the year when queer people celebrate their very existence in a way that heterosexual people do not because nobody is harassing and murdering heterosexual people on the streets. The Cheeky Natives, the South African literary podcast that has become a major go-to space for authors in the […]
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The Gerald Kraak Prize Anthology Vol. II, As You Like It, Wins the 2019 Lambda Award for Best Fiction Anthology
As You Like It, the anthology comprising shortlisted entries for the second Gerald Kraak Prize, has won the 2019 Lambda Award for Best Fiction Anthology. The announcement was made last night at the 31st Lambda Literary Awards—AKA the Lammys: the LGBTQ+ Grammys—ceremony at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York City. Published by […]
Frankie Edozien, JK Anowe, Megan Ross, Lilian Aujo Lead 19-Strong Shortlist for the Gerald Kraak Prize
Jacana Literary Foundation (JLF), in partnership with The Other Foundation, has announced a 19-strong shortlist for the R25,000 Gerald Kraak Prize, selected from over 500 entries. The nominated works—a total of 23 pieces of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction by the 19 writers—will appear in the third Gerald Kraak Anthology, titled The Heart of the Matter, forthcoming from Jacana […]
PHOTOS | The Asmara Addis Literary Festival in Exile: a Pan-African Event for Feminism, Free Love, and Radical Ideas
The inaugural Asmara Addis Literary Festival in Exile was held from 8–10 February 2019, in Brussels, Belgium. Founded by Eritrean-Ethiopian novelist Sulaiman Addonia, author of The Consequences of Love (2009) and Silence Is My Mother Tongue (2018), the Festival is “a new pan-African literary event with feminist principles at its heart.” It was organized in collaboration with BOZAR, in […]
Photos | Page & Palette Hosts Reading of Frankie Edozien’s Lives of Great Men in Abuja
Last December, Abuja bookstore Page & Palette hosted a reading of Chike Frankie Edozien’s memoir Lives of Great Men. Published in the US by Team Angelica, in South Africa by Jacana Media, and in Nigeria by Ouida Books, Lives of Great Men is the first memoir by a Nigerian about LGBTQ+ life. It received the […]
The 2018 Open Book Festival Begins in Cape Town
The 2018 Open Book Festival has begun at The Fugard Theatre in Cape Town. The event, which is in its seventh year, will last from 5-9 September, with further activities at The District 6 Museum Homecoming Centre and The Book Lounge. Among the 2018 guests are Aminatta Forna, whose fourth novel Happiness dropped earlier in the […]
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