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Features, Lit Scene, News April 23, 2019

Submit to the $12,000 Graywolf Press Africa Prize for Novel Manuscripts, Judged by A. Igoni Barrett

The 2019 Graywolf Press Africa Prize is now open to submissions. The award, launched in 2017 by the publishing house Graywolf Press, with the Nigerian novelist A. Igoni Barrett as judge, recognizes “a first novel manuscript by an African author primarily residing in Africa”—with a $12,000 advance, publication in the US and Italy by Graywolf […]

Inaugural Graywolf Press Africa Prize Goes to Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s “Sumptuous, Bold” Magical Realist Novel Manuscript

Last September, we brought news of the launch of the Graywolf Press Africa Prize, judged by A. Igoni Barrett. The inaugural Prize has now been awarded to Kenya’s Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, for her novel manuscript The House of Rust. The Prize is given for a first novel manuscript by an African resident in Africa. The […]

The Graywolf Press Africa Prize Launches with Igoni A. Barrett as Judge

A new award just dropped: the Graywolf Press Africa Prize, for “a first novel manuscript by an African author primarily residing in Africa.” The inaugural prize will be judged by Igoni A. Barrett, author of the 2013 short story collection, Love Is Power, or Something Like That, and the 2015 novel Blackass, “in conjunction with the Graywolf editors.” In […]