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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...

Get Lit: Romance, Roots and Real Talk Became Page Turners This June

Discover June's Must-Read Books from Romance to Mystery and Empowering Essays

Cameroonian Author Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi’s Woman of the Lake Is Coming This Summer

Spears Books has announced the signing of Makuchi, the pen name of Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, for the publication of her upcoming short story collection, Woman of the Lake, sche...

“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...

15 African Queer Books That Have Shaped a Literary Movement | Brittle Paper’s June Reading List

At Brittle Paper, this June, we are highlighting some of our favourite African queer books that have rocked and shaped African publishing.  In Necessary Fiction, Eloghosa Osunde re...

Efun’s Jazz: From Brittle Paper Series to Masobe’s New Release

  Tomilola Coco Adeyemo is keeping us entertained with another Masobe release! Her short story series, that was previously published on Brittle Paper in 2022, will soon be availabl...

July 2026 Reads for the Rest of Us

Each month, Ms. provides readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. Dear feminist reader friends, I don’t ask you for much. But...

Literary legacy celebrated at double book launch

Nelson’s Handwriting… THE evening of June 27, 2026 will long be remembered in Zimbabwe’s literary circles as a celebration of family, creativity... To access this conten...

Books by Latine Authors to Preorder Now (and Other Ways to Support Books and Authors)

Preorder these summer and early fall releases by Latine authors now

Bestselling books at Matariki Weekend

June 2026 Reads for the Rest of Us

Each month, Ms. provides readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. Happy June! Happy Pride! Happy Caribbean-American Heritage M...

Books on the move

Books have long stood at the heart of every civilisation’s intellectual life. More than containers of knowledge, they preserve memory, transmit ideas and connect generations. Omani...

Jennifer Fahie Brought “Essence of Life: Poetry & Life in Motion II” to the L.A. Times Festival of Books 2026

In cooperation with the ReadersMagnet, a trusted self-publishing and marketing company, Jennifer Fahie's Essence of Life: Poetry & Life in Motion II will be featured at the L...

Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #61

Featuring Maria Giesbrech, Jane Doucet. Adriana OniИ›Дѓ, and JoAnn McCaig.

On Close Examination Is Gloria Chinyere Okwu’s Unflinching Memoir of Survival | Now Available for Preorder

Gloria Chinyere Okwu’s memoir On Close Examination is now available for preorder from Ouida Books, published under the press’s Cognix imprint. The book traces Chinyere’s life from...

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...

The top 9 books on June’s BLK Bestsellers list

Some of the best-selling books this month are adult fiction and nonfiction, young adult literature, and poetry. The latest BLK

‘Tears (mine) every time!’ Elizabeth Cox’s love/hate relationship with children’s books

Welcome to The Spinoff Books Confessional, in which we get to know the reading habits of Aotearoa writers, and guests. This week: Elizabeth Cox, author of Mr Ward’s Map, which won...

This week’s bestselling books – June 19

Queer Latine Books on Sale at Bookshop.org

Support queer Latine books for Pride, and at a discount!

The Best Latine Books of 2026 So Far

The best Latine books of 2026 so far include a meditation on the power of poetry, two Gothic horror reads, a Peter Pan retelling set in WWI, and more.

Songs of Liberation

In 1960 the writer Bessie Head—yet to publish the novels that would make her a leading figure in South African and Batswana literature—interviewed a young Cape Town pianist named A...

Lampara Books unveils new titles for National Heritage Month

Lampara Books marked National Heritage Month with a new slate of literary and educational titles aimed at strengthening Filipino cultural appreciation while supporting literacy, cr...

New books just published

Hurricanes Roar: 30 reflections on Black spiritual poetry by Elizabeth S. Dodd and Jarel Robinson-Brown (Canterbury Press, £14.99 (Church Times SPECIAL OFFER PRICE £11.99); 978-1-7...