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Features, Lit Scene, News 2017/12/12

The Short Story Is Dead, Long Live the Short Story! Prize Awarded to Nigeria’s Mary Ononokpono

The 2017 The Short Story Is Dead, Long Live the Short Story! Prize has been awarded to Nigeria’s Mary Ononokpono—winner of the Golden Baobab Prize and two-time finalist for the Miles Morland Scholarship. Nigeria’s Osemegbe Aito and Zimbabwe’s Tina Chiwashira placed second and third respectively. The Short Story Is Dead, Long Live the Short Story! Prize […]

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Features, Lit Scene, News 2017/10/27

The Short Story Is Dead, Long Live the Short Story Announces 2017 Shortlist

The shortlist for The Short Story is Dead, Long Live the Short Story! has been announced. The prize is organised by Black Letter Media, a full service print and digital publishing and bookselling company with “focus on publishing new storytellers who have a unique, powerful and alternative vision of Africa.” The winning short story will receive […]

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Features, Lit Scene, News 2017/09/04

The Short Story Is Dead, Long Live the Short Story! Announces Longlist

The longlist for The Short Story is Dead, Long Live the Short Story! has been announced. The prize is organised by Black Letter Media, a full service print and digital publishing and bookselling company with “focus on publishing new storytellers who have a unique, powerful and alternative vision of Africa.” The winning short story will […]

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Features 2018/09/22

Teju Cole Joins Harvard’s Department of English as Gore Vidal Professor of Creative Writing

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Teju Cole has joined Harvard University’s Department of English as the Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing. […]

Features 2018/09/22

Always Another Country | Sisonke Msimang’s North America Book Tour

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Last October, Sisonke Msimang’s debut memoir Always Another Country was published by Jonathan Ball Publishers in South Africa. The account of […]

Features 2018/09/22

Chimamanda Adichie Adds Her Voice to Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis

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Chimamanda Adichie has added her voice to Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis, following efforts by Cameroonian novelists Imbolo Mbue and Patrice Nganang. […]

Features 2018/09/21

Deji Olukotun’s Novels, Nigerians In Space and After The Flare, Optioned by Major Film Company

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Deji Olukotun’s novels Nigerians in Space and After the Flare have been optioned by major film company. The crime novelist shared this […]

Features 2018/09/21

Petina Gappah Is Working on a Rhodesia Trilogy Comprising a Comedy, a Tragedy, and an Epic

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Petina Gappah is working on a series, what she calls the Rhodesia Trilogy. The Zimbabwean writer and novelist, whose short […]

Features 2018/09/21

Nnedi Okorafor Announces New Project Due in December, Set in the Universe of Binti and Lagoon

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Fresh from her trending appearance at the Emmys with Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martins, Nnedi Okorafor has announced […]

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