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  • Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry Now Open for Submissions | Submit by December 1
  • Submissions Open for the $1,500 2027 Evaristo Prize for African Poetry | Submit by November 1
  • Ameen Animashaun and Edinam Denoo Win $1,000 Each in the Inaugural Alhaji Arole Agarawu African Poetry Prize

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brittlepaper.com /1 month ago

Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry Now Open for Submissions | Submit by December 1

Submissions are now open for the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, the annual award given to an African poet who has not yet published a full-length poetry collection....

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brittlepaper.com /2 weeks ago

Submissions Open for the $1,500 2027 Evaristo Prize for African Poetry | Submit by November 1

The African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) is now accepting entries for the 2027 Evaristo Prize for African Poetry, an annual award of $1,500 for a set of ten poems by an African poet who...

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brittlepaper.com /2 weeks ago

Ameen Animashaun and Edinam Denoo Win $1,000 Each in the Inaugural Alhaji Arole Agarawu African Poetry Prize

Nigerian poet Ameen Animashaun and Ghanaian poet Edinam Denoo have been named the winners of the inaugural Alhaji Arole Agarawu African Poetry Prize, an international award celebra...

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brittlepaper.com /1 month ago

Poetry Africa Announces Programme for Its 30th Festival and World Poetry Slam Championship in Durban, 5–9 October 2026

Poetry Africa will mark its 30th edition this October with five days of performances, poetry slams, workshops, industry conversations, and literary programming across Durban, culmi...

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brittlepaper.com /1 month ago

Modjaji Books Brings Together 19 Poets from Across Southern Africa to Release Gathered Seams

Modjaji Books has released Gathered Seams, a poetry anthology gathering nineteen poems from women writers across Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and South Africa. Edited by Li...

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brittlepaper.com /3 weeks ago

African Studies Association of Africa Opens Submissions for the 2027 Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award for Excellence in Afri...

The African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) is accepting nominations for the 2027 Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award for Excellence in African Writing, a biennial prize honoring an...

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brittlepaper.com /3 days ago

Wasafiri Announces 2026 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize Shortlists After Record Entries, With Africa Up by 172%

  Wasafiri has released the shortlists for the 2026 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, selecting fifteen writers across fiction, life writing, and poetry. Winners in each categ...

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pmnewsnigeria.com /1 month ago

Eze, Ifowodo, Oburumu make final shortlist for $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature

The 2026 edition is dedicated to poetry, continuing the prize's four-year rotation among prose fiction, poetry, drama and children's literature. According to the Advisory Board, ch...

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brittlepaper.com /1 month ago

Koleka Putuma Nominated 2026 Featured Poet as Poetry Africa Marks its 30th Anniversary Edition

Thirty years is long enough for a festival to become something closer to a tradition, and Poetry Africa marks that milestone this October with a name that fits the occasion. Koleka...

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brittlepaper.com /1 month ago

Abebi AfroNonfiction Foundation Launches Inaugural Continental Fellowship for African Women Writers | Closes September 1...

The Abebi AfroNonfiction Foundation has announced the inaugural Abebi AfroNonfiction Fellowship, a new pan-African writing initiative for women working in creative nonfiction. The...

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brittlepaper.com /2 weeks ago

Nigerian Poet Rasaq Malik Gbolahan Shortlisted for the CA$20,000 2026 Montreal International Poetry Prize

Nigerian poet Rasaq Malik Gbolahan is a finalist for the 2026 Montreal International Poetry Prize, shortlisted for his poem “Suitcase.” He is the only African poet among the 20 fin...

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brittlepaper.com /2 weeks ago

13 Books Make the Longlist for the $20,000 2026 CANEX Prize for Publishing

The 2026 CANEX Prize for Publishing has announced its longlist, with 13 books from publishers across Africa and the Caribbean advancing to the next stage. The list spans novels roo...

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brittlepaper.com /1 month ago

Eze, Ifowodo, and Oburumu Make Final Three for the $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature 2026

The Nigeria Prize for Literature has narrowed its 2026 poetry field down to a shortlist of three: James Ngwu Eze’s Unbind Me Now, Ogaga Ifowodo’s Why Does God Need a Gun?, and Tare...

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brittlepaper.com /1 month ago

Black British Book Festival Returns October 4 with Nick Makoha, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, and More A...

Europe’s largest celebration of Black literature is back! The Black British Book Festival, founded by Selina Brown, returns to London’s Barbican Centre on Sunday, October 4, 2026,...

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brittlepaper.com /6 days ago

Book Dash to Spotlight Early Book Access at Pan Afrikan Design Week 2026 in Cape Town

  Book Dash will take part in Pan Afrikan Design Week 2026, a continental gathering opening in Cape Town on 21 October. Convened by the Pan Afrikan Design Institute with Open Desig...

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brittlepaper.com /1 month ago

The African Art Book Fair Returns to Dakar for Its Sixth Edition, Part of the 2026 Dakar Biennale | November 19–22, 2026

Afrikadaa magazine has announced the sixth edition of the African Art Book Fair (AABF), running November 19–22, 2026, at the Centre de Ressource Ousmane Sembène in Dakar. The fair...

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brittlepaper.com /1 month ago

American University in Cairo Press Announces Shortlist for the $5,000 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature 2026

The American University in Cairo Press has revealed the shortlist for the 2026 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, one of the most prestigious honors dedicated to contemporary Ara...

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locusmag.com /1 week ago

Inaugural Linda D. Addison Speculative Poetry Fellowship

Qilin Press has established the Linda D. Addison Speculative Poetry Fellowship, an award that, supports BIPOC poets developing unpublished and in‑progress speculative poetry colle...

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brittlepaper.com /2 weeks ago

Poetic Wednesdays Initiative Announces KAPFEST 3.0: Reclaiming Languages, October 15–17, 2026, in Kano

The Poetic Wednesdays Initiative has announced the third edition of the Kano International Poetry Festival (KAPFEST), running October 15 to 17, 2026, in Kano under the theme Reclai...

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brittlepaper.com /1 month ago

Inside the Stacks: University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries Spotlights New African Fiction

Walk into Memorial Library at the University of Wisconsin–Madison this month, and you’ll run into a small, colorful surprise: a New Books Display Shelf stacked with some of the mos...

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brittlepaper.com /1 month ago

10 African Books Your Book Club Might Be Sleeping On

Every book club knows the struggle of finding that next great read. You scroll through bestseller lists, revisit the books everyone has been talking about and somehow end up circli...

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brittlepaper.com /1 month ago

Two Nigerian Poets, Tolu Oloruntoba and Othuke Umukoro, Shortlisted for the 2026 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry

The finalists for the 2026 Walcott Prize are out! Two Nigerian poets have made the finalist list for the 2026 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, awarded annually by Arrowsmith Press i...

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brittlepaper.com /3 weeks ago

Élékéré Press Announces Shortlist for its Inaugural Short Story Prize

Élékéré Press has announced the seven writers shortlisted for the inaugural Élékéré Short Story Prize, selected from more than 200 submissions from Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, the Unite...

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brittlepaper.com /1 month ago

“What Does the Poem Say About Nigeria?” A Conversation with the Three Finalists for the $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Liter...

What can poetry hold when a country is carrying too much history? For Ogaga Ifowodo, James Ngwu Eze and Tares Oburumu, poetry becomes a way of looking closely at Nigeria: at the vi...

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