Thirty-four writers, filmmakers, visual artists, and musicians have been shortlisted for the 2019 Artists In Residency (AIR) programme, including Africa Poetry Book Fund (APBF) and Prairie Schooner editor-in-chief Kwame Dawes, South African novelist Zoe Wicomb, South African poet and APBF editor Gabeba Baderoon, Ugandan Glenna Luschei Prize-winning poet Juliane Okot Bitek, South African editor Helen […]
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Event | An Evening with Chigozie Obioma and Kwame Dawes at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Ahead of the release of his second novel An Orchestra of Minorities, Chigozie Obioma will be in conversation with Kwame Dawes at the Johnny Carson Center in Downtown Lincoln, NE on January 8, 2019. The event, themed “An Evening with Chigozie Obioma and Kwame Dawes,” is sponsored by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Department of English and the Office […]
Opportunity for Poets | Enter for the 2019 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets
Submissions for the 2019 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets have begun. The 2018 Prize was awarded to Botswana’s TJ Dema, for her manuscript The Careless Seamstress. Backed by the philanthropists Laura and Robert FX Sillerman—as part of their overall funding of the African Poetry Book Fund—the $1,000 Sillerman First Book Prize for African […]
#LIPFest18 | Register for Poetry Workshops with Kwame Dawes, Nick Makoha, Lebo Mashile, and Yomi Sode
The 2018 Lagos International Poetry Festival (#LIPFest18) is offering workshops by some of the biggest names in contemporary African poetry. Much-honoured Ghanaian poet Kwame Dawes, co-founder of the African Poetry Book Fund (APBF), will be teaching a masterclass on 3 November at Angels & Muse, Lagos. Ugandan poet Nick Makoha, co-winner of the 2015 Brunel Prize, […]
Kwame Dawes, Warsan Shire, Nadifa Mohamed, Inua Elams, Chibundu Onuzo Elected into the Royal Society of Literature
Eight African writers have been elected into the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) as part of its 40 Under 40 initiative: poets Warsan Shire and Inua Ellams, novelists Sabrina Mahfouz, Nadifa Mohamed, Irenosen Okojie, and Chibundu Onuzo, , and playwright Bola Agbaje. Beyond the 40 Under 40 initiative, there were two more inductees: street rapper Mojisola Adebayo and poet Kwame Dawes, […]
Kwame Dawes Is Developing a Digital Portal for African Poetry and Artifacts, from the 1800s to the Present
Kwame Dawes—Emmy-winning poet, founding editor of African Poetry Book Fund (APBF), and editor of Prairie Schooner—is developing a digital portal for African poetry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he is also a Chancellor’s Professor of English, reports The Daily Nebraskan. “The African Digital Portal,” to be launched in 2019, “will feature artifacts, newspapers and manuscripts related […]
“New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tano)”: See the 11 Covers
Africa Poetry Book Fund (APBF)—which administers the Brunel International African Poetry Prize, the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, and the Glenna Luschei Prize—is set to publish its annual New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set, containing work by new voices from the continent. Begun in 2014, the limited-edition series, which is published by Akashic Books, “seeks […]
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