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Features, Lit Scene, News April 8, 2020

Memento, New Anthology Edited by Adedayo Agarau, Collects Notable Voices in Contemporary Nigerian Poetry

The American publisher Animal Heart Press has released an anthology of Nigerian poetry. Titled Memento: An Anthology of Contemporary Nigerian Poetry and edited by Adedayo Agarau, it collects work by most of the notable voices in Nigerian poetry, including Sky Raining Fists author J.K. Anowe and fellow Brittle Paper Award for Poetry winner Itiola Jones, A […]

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Features, Lit Scene, News December 9, 2019

The 2019 Brittle Paper Award for Poetry: Meet The 5 Finalists

The 5 Shortlists for The 2019 Brittle Paper Awards were announced in November. Begun in 2017 to mark our seventh anniversary, the Awards aim to recognize the finest, original pieces of writing by Africans published online. READ: The 2017 Brittle Paper Award for Poetry: Meet the Nominees READ: The 2018 Brittle Paper Award for Poetry: Meet the 6 Finalists The $1,100 prize money […]

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Features November 19, 2019

The 2019 Brittle Paper Awards: Announcing The 5 Shortlists

We are excited to announce The 5 Shortlists for the 2019 Brittle Paper Awards. Launched in 2017 to mark our seventh anniversary, the annual Awards aim to recognize the finest, original pieces of literary writing by Africans published online — writing that has prompted, enhanced, or defined conversations. The $1,100 cash prize is split across five categories: The […]

Opportunity for Writers | Submit to Dwart Magazine’s 6th Issue

Dwartonline magazine is seeking submissions to its 6th issue, due to be published in July 2018. Submissions are open for poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama, art and photography. Their reading for Issue 6 will last from April 1 – June 1, 2018. In an email to Brittle Paper, its editor Wale Ayinla explained: We are looking for original and […]

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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission March 29, 2017

Holding Memories | By Wale Ayinla | Poetry

i held your tongue thinking it would reveal how a sea runs into a boat where you lay on breasts this is how lovers’ days are measured break the silence that sits silently on nights the moon is a stranger walk your fears on the lips of shadows let them watch you sleeping on a […]

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Lit Scene, News January 18, 2017

Opportunity for African Writers | Submit to Dwartonline’s Issue No. 3

Dwartonline is a literary magazine managed by Wale Ayinla and Chukwuebuka Ibeh. They recently announced a call for submissions to Issue Number 3, which will be published in April. Submissions are open for poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama, art and photography. The theme for Issue Number 3 is “Uprooting,” which the editors explain as follows: We are looking for […]

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Features, Lit Scene December 19, 2016

From Enkare Review to Expound: Meet the Young Creatives Running the Magazines of Our Future

African magazines that publish literature have come a long way since the 2000s when South Africa’s Chimurenga debuted under the editorial leadership of Ntone Edjabe. Chimurenga‘s success was quickly followed by Kenya’s Kwani? founded by Binyavanga Wainaina in 2003. In 2009, Emmanuel Iduma and Dami Ajayi kept up the momentum by setting up Nigeria’s Saraba. There is also Bakwa in Cameroon run […]

Atupa Elepo (Oil Lamp) | by Wale Ayinla | African Poetry

i Atupa elepo, When the sun fades into the dark-dyed cloud And the world bows at the feet of darkness, I come with my flame-covered cloak To dress the night of few. Atupa elepo, The oil kisses my lips for me to live And causes me to climax into fire. I twirl to the anger […]