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South African Poet Gabeba Baderoon Selected to Judge the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry | Submit by October 1

There are prizes, and then there are prizes that feel like a genuine act of witness. The Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry, administered by the African Poetry Book Fund at Br...

An Online Four-Week Poetry Workshop on African Poets by San Antonio’s Writing Arts Centre Is Coming 

Gemini Ink, San Antonio’s Writing Arts Centre, is offering a four-week online poetry workshop this June. Titled Exploring Africa: Inspiration from International Poets, the workshop...

19 Southern African Poets Selected for Modjaji Books’ Woordeloos Anthology

Modjaji Books is turning 19 this year, and they are marking the milestone with poetry. The Woordeloos anthology, funded and initiated by Liliana Risi, was conceived as both a celeb...

Nigeria’s Inaugural Pius Oleghe Poetry and Literary Awards Opens Submissions | Two Prizes of ₦1,000,000 Each | Submit by...

A new national poetry competition has arrived in Nigeria, and it comes with serious institutional weight behind it. The Pius Oleghe Poetry and Literary Awards (POPALS), named in ho...

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...

Romeo Oriogun, Titilope Sonuga, and Nick Makoha Will Facilitate the Lagos International Poetry Festival’s Inaugural Craf...

The Lagos International Poetry Festival (LIPFest) has opened applications for the inaugural cohort of the LIPFest Craft and Development Lab, a free four-month program offering craf...

Creative Africa Nexus (CANEX) Announces 3rd Edition of The Prize for Publishing in Africa | Deadline: June 30, 2026

Creative Africa Nexus (CANEX), an intervention by the African Export–Import Bank (Afreximbank), invites African and Caribbean publishers of trade books to apply for the third editi...

“Africa Is the Talent. It Has Always Been Here”: Othuke Ominiabohs on Building Masobe Books and the Future of African Pu...

22. That is the number of debut authors Masobe Books is pushing out this year. And some of their work is already out, from Chinasa Anaele’s Three Is a Crowd and Deborah Kira’s The...

Nigerian-Canadian Poet Jide Salawu Earns Double Shortlist Nod from the League of Canadian Poets for Debut Collection Con...

Nigerian-Canadian poet Jide Salawu has been shortlisted for not one but two of the League of Canadian Poets’ 2026 Book Awards, the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for a debut collect...

Amazwi South African Museum of Literature is Dedicated Entirely to Literature, You Should Check It Out

Tucked in Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown) in the Eastern Cape, Amazwi South African Museum of Literature is treating African literature as the heritage it is. The name amazwi means...

Africa Women Writers Residency 2026: Fully Funded 4-Week Creative Writing Program for Emerging African Women Writers in...

The Africa Women Writers Residency 2026 is a fully funded literary development opportunity designed to empower emerging African women storytellers. This prestigious residency provi...

Masakhane African Languages Hub, Microsoft, Gates Foundation, and Google.org Launch Open Call for AI Projects in African...

Africa is home to thousands of languages, and the vast majority of them are invisible to modern AI. When a language has no meaningful presence in datasets, models, or digital tools...

Apply to Majesty Publishing House Africa’s fully funded Africa Women Writers Residency | Deadline: June 22, 2026

Majesty Publishing House Africa has launched the inaugural Africa Women Writers Residency, a fully funded four-week program for emerging women writers from Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Ni...

The Sareeta Domingo Prize Launches to Discover Unpublished Writers from Black and Global Majority Backgrounds | Submit b...

A new literary prize has launched in the UK. The Sareeta Domingo Prize is a free-to-enter writing prize created to discover and support unpublished writers from Black and Global Ma...

One Street Studios Named by Afreximbank and Fund for Export Development in Africa (FEDA) as Co-General Partner of the Pa...

Akada festival champions African stories for young readers

The Akada Children’s Book Festival promotes indigenous children’s literature, fostering African storytelling and a love for reading among young Nigerians. Read More: https://punch...

Call for Submissions: The Gerald Kraak Anthology and Prize Opens Its Sixth Edition With a Focus on Lesbian, Bisexual, an...

The Gerald Kraak Anthology and Prize is now accepting submissions for its sixth annual edition, and African writers, poets, visual artists, and photographers are invited to send in...

AfricaNenda SIIPS 2026 Report Cover Photo Competition: Win USD 500 for Your African Visual Storytelling

The AfricaNenda Foundation has officially opened submissions for creatives, photographers, and visual artists to contribute the official cover design for the highly anticipated Sta...

Pictures and Recap: The African Book Festival Berlin 2026

The eighth edition of the African Book Festival Berlin, themed Welcome to the Club and held from May 29 to 31 at tak, Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg, wrapped up with the kind of weekend...

New York playwright wins African based international prize

The 2025 prize accepted scripts for ten-to-fifteen-minute stage plays. In total, 266 entries were received from 23 countries. The post New York playwright wins African based intern...

48 students feature in Ogun school poetry anthology

Peaceville International Academy, Ogun State, publishes its maiden poetry anthology, “Echoes of Experiences,” featuring 48 students to encourage creative w Read More: https://punc...

Electric Literature Is Launching Its First-Ever Emerging Writers Contest | $1,000 Prize, Publication, and a Residency |...

Electric Literature, the nonprofit literary platform that has spent seventeen years dedicated to uplifting emerging writers, has launched its very first Emerging Writers Contest, w...

KEPYR Marks 10th Anniversary with 2026 Kindred Spirits Campaign

Sponsored by Lion Forge Entertainment, the ‘Artists for Artists!’ campaign spotlighting child displacement in Southeastern Africa is raising funds for African Youth Artistic Poetry...

Safia Elhillo, Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, and Stephanie Wambugu Named 2027–2028 Civitella Ranieri Writing Fellows

Three African and diaspora writers feature among the 25 names announced by the Civitella Ranieri Foundation as its newly selected Writing Fellows for the 2027 and 2028 residency se...