In 2017, in what should have been its tenth edition, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie announced that her annual workshop would not be held because there were no sponsors. In an email to Brittle Paper, she had stated that “our sponsor, Nigerian Breweries PLC (NB PLC), abruptly withdrew their sponsorship due to a need to streamline their expenditure.” Began […]
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EVENT | An Evening with Chimamanda in Victoria Island
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Nigerian publishers, Narrative Landscape, will be hosting her in Victoria Island, Lagos. The event, themed “An Evening with Chimamanda,” will take place on 22 September at The Workstation, 7 Ibiyinka Olorunbe Close, Victoria Island. There will be conversations around her two most recent books, We Should All Be Feminists (2014) and Dear Ijeawele, […]
All the Photos From the 2018 Dusty Manuscript Writing Boot Camp
The Dusty Manuscript Contest was created by Okada Books to break down the barriers facing aspiring writers in the Nigerian publishing industry. They teamed up with GT Bank’s YOU READ Initiative and Farafina Books to offer cash prizes and publishing contracts to the winning writers. To expand the mandate of the contest beyond selecting three […]
20 Budding Nigerian Writers Make It to Next Stage of the GTBank Dusty Manuscript Contest
After spending several weeks poring over more than 1000 stories submitted for the Dusty Manuscript Contest, the judges of the competition have selected their top 20 entries. The selected entries are: Devil‘s Pawn by Kukogho Iruesiri Samson Home to the Hill by Eunice Ekelaka Sambisa by Mohammed, Fatima Aliko The Smell of Rain by Nneoma […]
The Dusty Manuscript Contest | GTBank Announces New Book Prize To Be Judged by Ainehi Edoro, Eghosa Imasuen, Toni Kan, Yejide Kilanko
Guaranty Trust Bank has announced a new book prize called The Dusty Manuscript Contest. It will be Judged by Ainehi Edoro, Brittle Paper editor and Marquette University Assistant Professor of Literature; Eghosa Imasuen, author of Fine Boys (2012); Toni Kan, author of the NDDC/Ken Saro Wiwa Prize-winning Nights of a Creaking Bed; and Yejide Kilanko, poet and finalist for the 2017 […]
Ethnic Hate Speech: Statement from Concerned Nigerian Writers
In the light of recent developments in the ever-volatile Nigerian political space, 27 writers, some of them among the best-known in the country, have put out a joint statement condemning hate speech across ethnic lines. * We, the undersigned Nigerian writers, view with grave concern the dominance of ethnic incendiary speech in our country. We […]
The Brittle Paper Digest: 31 Notable Pieces of 2016
The year 2016 has been fertile for writing in general, and for creative non-fiction in particular. On the African literary scene, the most remarkable talking points would be the upsurge of new talent (see the shortlists of the Miles Morland Scholarship and the Gerald Kraak Award) and new outlets for those voices (see our feature […]
When You Are Writing, You Are God & Other Lessons | by Lesley Agams | A Farafina Workshop Memoir
When you are writing, you are God. —Aslak Sira Myhre June 21 – Day One “Tell us one thing you like and one thing you dislike?” she said. I lied. I said I liked history, art and culture. Actually I like sex, loud music and dim smokey bars. But I wasn’t ready to say that […]
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