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Seven African Writers Make the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Shortlist worth £5,000

Seven African writers are among the 25 shortlisted for the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, chosen from a record 7,806 entries submitted across 54 Commonwealth countries. The s...

Mariam Mohammed, Olayinka Yaqub, and Naomi Nduta Waweru Win the 2025 JAY Lit Awards

The Journal of African Youth Literature (JAY Lit) has announced the winners of the 2025 JAY Lit Awards, recognising the best work published across Issues 9 and 10 of the journal. G...

South African Writer Lisa-Anne Julien Wins the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa

Lisa-Anne Julien has won the Africa regional prize at the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story “Me and Ma’am”, a devastating portrait of the relationship between a dom...

Six African Authors Make 2026 Locus Awards Finalists—Nnedi Okorafor Scores Three Nominations

Back in February, we highlighted  fifteen African authors on the Locus Recommended Reading List and asked you to vote. The top finalists are now in for different categories, and th...

African Diaspora Writers Tade Thompson and Eugen Bacon Win Big at the 2026 British Science Fiction Association Awards

The results are in! British-Nigerian author Tade Thompson and Tanzanian-Australian writer Eugen Bacon are among the winners of the 2026 British Science Fiction Association Awards,...

Nigerian Writer Ucheoma Onwutuebe Wins the 2026 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

Ucheoma Onwutuebe is a 2026 O. Henry Prize winner! The Nigerian writer’s story “Where Are You and Where Is My Money,” first published in A Public Space No. 32, has been selected fo...

Oyinkan Braithwaite’s Cursed Daughters and Cassava Republic’s The Mercy Step Win at the 2026 British Book Awards

African literature had a winning night at the 2026 British Book Awards, known as the Nibbies, held this evening at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. Two books with deep ties to...

Short story winner of the $65K Ockham fiction prize

2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize announces regional winners

Earlier, four Nigerian writers, Hussani Abdulrahim, Oluwatoke Adejoye, Dawn Immanuel and Ola W. Halim were named among the 25 shortlisted writers selected from 14 Commonwealth coun...

Kenyan Poet Awuor Ouma Wins the 2026 Cave Canem Prize worth $10,000

Awuor Ouma’s debut manuscript Blue Hands, Brown Skin has been named the 2026 Cave Canem Prize winner. Written in the aftermath of her father’s death, the collection moves through g...

Safia Elhillo Named Wasafiri’s International Writer in Residence

A decade ago, a poem by an unknown Sudanese-American writer doing unusual things with Arabic script and English on the page caught the attention of the Brunel Prize judges,  and ou...

The Nossrat Yassini Poetry Festival Closes its Third Year with Nigerian Poet Adedayo Agarau winning the $10,000 Award

The third annual Nossrat Yassini Poetry Festival took place on April 17 and 18, 2026 at Hamilton Smith Hall on the University of New Hampshire campus in Durham, a free, two-day gat...

Nigerian poet Gbenga Adesina’s Death Does Not End at the Sea Is Shortlisted for the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize worth C$13...

Gbenga Adesina has made the shortlist for the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize. His debut collection, Death Does Not End at the Sea (University of Nebraska Press), is one of five books se...

Nigerian Writer I.O. Echeruo’s debut novel The Comfort of Distant Stars Makes the 2026 Orwell Prize Shortlist

The 2026 Orwell Prize shortlists are out, and there is an African name to celebrate among them. I.O. Echeruo’s debut novel The Comfort of Distant Stars, published by Canongate Book...

Four Nigerian writers make 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist

All in their early thirties, the Nigerian writers made up four of the seven African finalists, alongside entries from Ghana, South Africa and Kenya. The post Four Nigerian writers...

Four Nigerian Writers Shortlisted for 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize

Four Nigerian writers have been shortlisted for the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, administered by the Commonwealth Foundation and is one of the most prestigious literature p...

Gbenga Adesina and Nick Makoha’s Poetry Collections Longlisted for the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize worth $130,000

Nigerian Gbenga Adesina and Ugandan Nick Makoha, have been recognized on one of poetry’s most significant international stages: both have been longlisted for the 2026 Griffin Poetr...

“What an extraordinarily great fortune. We give thanks!” Gbenga Adesina Wins the 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poet...

Gbenga Adesina has won the 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry for his debut collection, Death Does Not End at the Sea (University of Nebraska Press). The Anisfield-Wolf Book...

Winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize

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Cassava Republic Press Becomes the First African-Owned, Black and Woman-Led Independent Press to Land on the Women’s Pri...

The 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist is out, and it has delivered a moment that African literature will want to remember. Marcia Hutchinson’s The Mercy Step, published by C...

Nigerian-American novelist and Caine Prize Winner Tope Folarin Says His Fiction Earns $20,000 a Year

Tope Folarin, the Nigerian-American novelist and 2013 Caine Prize winner, has opened up about the financial realities of his writing life in a new interview with the Substack newsl...

Stella Gaitano and Safae el Khannoussi among finalists for the 2026 Internationaler Literaturpreis Prize

Two African writers are among the six finalists for the 2026 Internationaler Literaturpreis, the prestigious German prize for contemporary literature in translation awarded by the...

This is the Winner of the 2026 International Booker Prize

The winner of the 2026 International Booker Prize, AI allegations against short story prize winners, and more literary news.

South African Poet Siphokazi Jonas Wins 2025 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry for Debut Collection Weeping Become...

Siphokazi Jonas, the South African poet, playwright, performer, and producer, has been announced as the 2025 winner of the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry — the only pan-Af...