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Features, Lit Scene, News May 27, 2019

Writivism Announces 2019 Shortlists for Short Story Prize and Koffi Addo Prize for Creative Nonfiction

Writivism has announced the 2019 Shortlists for the Writivism Short Story Prize and the Koffi Addo Prize for Creative Nonfiction, featuring five writers from Nigeria and South Africa, with one appearing on both three-name shortlists. While the finalists will each receive $150 and are invited to the 2019 Writivism Festival on 15-18 August, the two […]

Brunel Prize 2019 Poems Review | Part 5: Inua Ellams & Nadra Mabrouk

In 2018, Brittle Paper introduced a Brunel Prize Poems Review series, starting with poems on that year’s shortlist. The series returns for the 2019 Prize. READ: Brunel Prize 2019 Poems Review | Part 1: Jamila Osman & Selina Nwulu READ: Brunel Prize 2019 Poems Review | Part 2: Omotara James & K. Eltinae READ: Brunel Prize 2019 Poems Review | Part 3: Afua […]

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Features, For the Poetry Enthusiast, Lit Scene, Reviews April 30, 2019

Brunel Prize 2019 Poems Review | Part 4: Emmanuel Oppong & Sherry Shenoda

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Features, Lit Scene, News April 30, 2019

Brunel Prize 2019 Poems Review | Part 3: Afua Ansong & Mary-Alice Daniel

In 2018, Brittle Paper introduced a Brunel Prize Poems Review series, starting with poems on that year’s shortlist. The series returns for the 2019 Prize. READ: Brunel Prize 2019 Poems Review | Part 1: Jamila Osman & Selina Nwulu READ: Brunel Prize 2019 Poems Review | Part 2: Omotara James & K. Eltinae The 2019 Brunel International African Poetry Prize shortlist came […]

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Features April 19, 2019

Brunel Prize 2019 Poems Review | Part 2: Omotara James & K. Eltinaé

In 2018, Brittle Paper introduced a Brunel Prize Poems Review series, starting with poems on that year’s shortlist. The series returns for the 2019 Prize. The 2019 Brunel International African Poetry Prize shortlist came with ten poets, most of whose works are truly worthy of the career-making prize. Through varying styles and themes, all the […]

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Features April 18, 2019

Brunel Prize 2019 Poems Review | Part 1: Jamila Osman & Selina Nwulu

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Features, Interviews, Lit Scene, Submission January 21, 2019

Thursday’s Children: 11 Contributors to Forthcoming Anthology Discuss Experimentation and the Nature of Creative Nonfiction

Thursday’s Children is a forthcoming anthology of personal essays. Co-edited by Adams Adeosun and Bello Damilare, it comes with an introduction by Kola Tubosun, and features fourteen writers, including its editors: Frances Ogamba, Timi Agboola Israel, Andanje Wobanda, Fareeda Abdulkareem, Atanda Obatolu, IfeOluwa Nihinlola, Munachim Amah, Kanyinsola Olorunnisola, Moyosore Orimoloye, Afope Ojo, Innocent Chizaram Ilo, and Ope […]

Review: Chike Frankie Edozien’s Lives Of Great Men | Kanyinsola Olorunnisola

WE ARE MORE THAN TRAGEDY: A REVIEW OF CHIKE FRANKIE EDOZIEN’S LIVES OF GREAT MEN To read on the news about queerness in Africa is to read about secrecy, mob assault, imprisonment, asylum, homelessness, death. In Chike Frankie Edozien’s LAMBDA Award-winning memoir Lives of Great Men: Living and Loving as an African Gay Man, there […]