#africanwriters — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #africanwriters, aggregated by home.social.
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From the British Fantasy Society:
With the @sauutiverse about to hit Glasgow for a very special event at Waterstones on 3 February, launching the new Flame Tree anthology Sauúti Terrors, Eugen Bacon whets our appetite with some links to free work from the Afrocentric speculative universe.
https://britishfantasysociety.org/sauutiverse-free-reads/
#africanwriters #africanhorror #books #writers #writing #creativity #sauutiverse #sauuti
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SWEEPING YET DEEPLY INTIMATE novel from a Cameroonian writer and filmmaker depicts the complexities of life in a (fictional) African country shaped by generations of repressive rule. Stunning, thoughtful, heartbreaking. A MINUS
https://coffeehousepress.org/products/the-aquatics
#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #fiction #novel #novels #Africanwriters #SmallPressSunday
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Thank you Dlitreview for including the Island Prize on your list (https://dlitreview.com/free-creative-writing-opportunities-in-february-2025/) - to all out there, if you are a debut novelist from Africa, send in your manuscript by 16th February - if you're not a writer, but know someone who is - spread the word, share the news!
Check out our guidelines here: https://www.hhousebooks.com/island-prize-2024-25/
We can do this!
#opportunities #writingcompetition #africanauthors #africanwriters #debutnovelist #theislandprize #writing
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POETIC, PASSIONATE, VITALLY insightful novel tells the story of one family, especially its women, as a parable for the history of Mozambique. Gorgeous prose brings the landscape and cultures powerfully alive. SOLID A
https://archipelagobooks.org/book/the-joyful-song-of-the-partridge/
#book #books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #fiction #novel #novels #Africanwriters #Mozambicanwriters #Mozambique #Blackwriters #Blackwomenwriters #SmallPressSunday
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Happy New Year !
Calling all African authors - the Island Prize is now open!
https://www.hhousebooks.com/island-prize-2024-25/
#africanauthors #africanwriters #novelwriting #writingcompetition #submissionsopen
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Happy New Year !
Calling all African authors - the Island Prize is now open!
https://www.hhousebooks.com/island-prize-2024-25/
#africanauthors #africanwriters #novelwriting #writingcompetition #submissionsopen
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Happy New Year !
Calling all African authors - the Island Prize is now open!
https://www.hhousebooks.com/island-prize-2024-25/
#africanauthors #africanwriters #novelwriting #writingcompetition #submissionsopen
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Heartiest congratulations to Ruby Excel from Ghana !
'Lyrics to the Colour Red' is about the passionate struggle for liberation and revolution, in love and country.
Warm wishes to Ruby and the next stage of the journey to publication!
https://www.hhousebooks.com/the-island-prize-winners-2024/
#writingaward #writers #africanwriters #africanauthors #novelwriting #theislandprize2024 #theislandprize #writerscommunity #publishing #writerslife
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AN EXTRAVAGANT, SPRAWLING PICARESQUE set in Zaire in the last years of the Mobutu regime is a symphony of voices from every walk of life, from tough street kids to the secret police to high society. Vivid and fascinating. B PLUS
#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #fiction #novel #novels #historicalfiction #zaire #DemocraticRepublicoftheCongo #Congolesewriters #Africanwriters #Blackwriters
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BRIGHT, VIVID TALE of two Nigerian girls touched by the spirit world, driven toward each other by different destinies. Gorgeously written, with a brilliant kaleidoscope of detail. B PLUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dazzling-chikodili-emelumadu/1143022694?ean=9781419769795
#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #fiction #novel #novels #fantasy #blackwriters #africanwriters #nigerianwriters #igbowriters
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The Island Prize was founded by Karen Jennings and Holland House Books to help debut African authors towards publication.
The submission deadline has been extended to 31 January - so do spread the word & help us find the next winner(s)!
Send submissions to The Island Prize https://www.hhousebooks.com/the-island-prize-2023-2024/ (link in bio)
#writingcompetition #africanwriters #writerslife #submissions #extendeddeadline #writing #creativewriting #fictionwriting #writingcommunity
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The Island Prize was founded by Karen Jennings and Holland House Books to help debut African authors towards publication.
The submission deadline has been extended to 31 January - so do spread the word & help us find the next winner(s)!
Send submissions to The Island Prize https://www.hhousebooks.com/the-island-prize-2023-2024/ (link in bio)
#writingcompetition #africanwriters #writerslife #submissions #extendeddeadline #writing #creativewriting #fictionwriting #writingcommunity
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#Writers #Authors of #Africa! - have you a story waiting to be heard?
The Island Prize was founded by Karen Jennings & Holland House Books to help discover new African authors.
The submission deadline has been extended to 31 January - so do spread the word and help us find the next winner(s)!
Send submissions to The Island Prize https://www.hhousebooks.com/the-island-prize-2023-2024/
#writingcompetition #africanwriters #writerslife #submissions #extendeddeadline #writing #creativewriting #fictionwriting #writingcommunity
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#Writers #Authors of #Africa! - have you a story waiting to be heard?
The Island Prize was founded by Karen Jennings & Holland House Books to help discover new African authors.
The submission deadline has been extended to 31 January - so do spread the word and help us find the next winner(s)!
Send submissions to The Island Prize https://www.hhousebooks.com/the-island-prize-2023-2024/
#writingcompetition #africanwriters #writerslife #submissions #extendeddeadline #writing #creativewriting #fictionwriting #writingcommunity
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#Writers #Authors of #Africa! - have you a story waiting to be heard?
The Island Prize was founded by Karen Jennings & Holland House Books to help discover new African authors.
The submission deadline has been extended to 31 January - so do spread the word and help us find the next winner(s)!
Send submissions to The Island Prize https://www.hhousebooks.com/the-island-prize-2023-2024/
#writingcompetition #africanwriters #writerslife #submissions #extendeddeadline #writing #creativewriting #fictionwriting #writingcommunity
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#Writers #Authors of #Africa! - have you a story waiting to be heard?
The Island Prize was founded by Karen Jennings & Holland House Books to help discover new African authors.
The submission deadline has been extended to 31 January - so do spread the word and help us find the next winner(s)!
Send submissions to The Island Prize https://www.hhousebooks.com/the-island-prize-2023-2024/
#writingcompetition #africanwriters #writerslife #submissions #extendeddeadline #writing #creativewriting #fictionwriting #writingcommunity
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#Writers #Authors of #Africa! - have you a story waiting to be heard?
The Island Prize was founded by Karen Jennings & Holland House Books to help discover new African authors.
The submission deadline has been extended to 31 January - so do spread the word and help us find the next winner(s)!
Send submissions to The Island Prize https://www.hhousebooks.com/the-island-prize-2023-2024/
#writingcompetition #africanwriters #writerslife #submissions #extendeddeadline #writing #creativewriting #fictionwriting #writingcommunity
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#Writers #Authors of #Africa! - have you a story waiting to be heard?
The Island #Prize #deadline has been EXTENDED!!!! You have until 31 JANUARY to submit!
Send submissions to The Island Prize https://www.hhousebooks.com/the-island-prize-2023-2024/ - help us find the next winners!
Spread the word!
#writingcompetition #africanwriters #writerslife #submissions #extendeddeadline #writing #creativewriting #fictionwriting #writingcommunity
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#Writers #Authors of #Africa! - have you a story waiting to be heard?
The Island #Prize #deadline has been EXTENDED!!!! You have until 31 JANUARY to submit!
Send submissions to The Island Prize https://www.hhousebooks.com/the-island-prize-2023-2024/ - help us find the next winners!
Spread the word!
#writingcompetition #africanwriters #writerslife #submissions #extendeddeadline #writing #creativewriting #fictionwriting #writingcommunity
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#Writers #Authors of #Africa! - have you a story waiting to be heard?
The Island #Prize #deadline has been EXTENDED!!!! You have until 31 JANUARY to submit!
Send submissions to The Island Prize https://www.hhousebooks.com/the-island-prize-2023-2024/ - help us find the next winners!
Spread the word!
#writingcompetition #africanwriters #writerslife #submissions #extendeddeadline #writing #creativewriting #fictionwriting #writingcommunity
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#Writers #Authors of #Africa! - have you a story waiting to be heard?
The Island #Prize #deadline has been EXTENDED!!!! You have until 31 JANUARY to submit!
Send submissions to The Island Prize https://www.hhousebooks.com/the-island-prize-2023-2024/ - help us find the next winners!
Spread the word!
#writingcompetition #africanwriters #writerslife #submissions #extendeddeadline #writing #creativewriting #fictionwriting #writingcommunity
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#Writers #Authors of #Africa! - have you a story waiting to be heard?
The Island #Prize #deadline has been EXTENDED!!!! You have until 31 JANUARY to submit!
Send submissions to The Island Prize https://www.hhousebooks.com/the-island-prize-2023-2024/ - help us find the next winners!
Spread the word!
#writingcompetition #africanwriters #writerslife #submissions #extendeddeadline #writing #creativewriting #fictionwriting #writingcommunity
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#Writers #Authors of #Africa! -
The Island #Prize #deadline has been EXTENDED!!!! You have until 31 JANUARY to submit!
Have you a story waiting to be heard?
Send it in to The Island Prize https://www.hhousebooks.com/the-island-prize-2023-2024/ -The Island Prize is intended to help African debut novelists get into print - and it's free to submit!
Spread the word!
#writingcompetition #africanwriters #writerslife #submissions #extendeddeadline #writing #creativewriting #fictionwriting #writingcommunity
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#Writers #Authors of #Africa! -
The Island #Prize #deadline has been EXTENDED!!!! You have until 31 JANUARY to submit!
Have you a story waiting to be heard?
Send it in to The Island Prize https://www.hhousebooks.com/the-island-prize-2023-2024/ -The Island Prize is intended to help African debut novelists get into print - and it's free to submit!
Spread the word!
#writingcompetition #africanwriters #writerslife #submissions #extendeddeadline #writing #creativewriting #fictionwriting #writingcommunity
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This is a special #competition, set up by Karen Jennings, who was long listed for the Booker prize with her novella An Island, to help fellow #African #authors find a #publisher.
The Island Prize https://www.hhousebooks.com/the-island-prize-2023-2024/ -
The #deadline has been extended to January 31st, so do please help spread the word-
Check out @HollandHouseBooks for deets
#writingcompetition #africanwriters #writerslife #submissions #extendeddeadline #writing #creativewriting #fictionwriting #writingcommunity
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This is a special #competition, set up by Karen Jennings, who was long listed for the Booker prize with her novella An Island, to help fellow #African #authors find a #publisher.
The Island Prize https://www.hhousebooks.com/the-island-prize-2023-2024/ -
The #deadline has been extended to January 31st, so do please help spread the word-
Check out @HollandHouseBooks for deets
#writingcompetition #africanwriters #writerslife #submissions #extendeddeadline #writing #creativewriting #fictionwriting #writingcommunity
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#Writers #Authors of #Africa! - There's a month of writing left!
The Island #Prize #deadline has been EXTENDED!!!! You have until 31 JANUARY to submit!
Have you a story waiting to be heard?
Send it in to The Island Prize https://www.hhousebooks.com/the-island-prize-2023-2024/ - open until the end of January!Spread the word!
#writingcompetition #africanwriters #writerslife #submissions #extendeddeadline #writing #creativewriting #fictionwriting #writingcommunity
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#Writers #Authors of #Africa! - There's a month of writing left!
The Island #Prize #deadline has been EXTENDED!!!! You have until 31 JANUARY to submit!
Have you a story waiting to be heard?
Send it in to The Island Prize https://www.hhousebooks.com/the-island-prize-2023-2024/ - open until the end of January!Spread the word!
#writingcompetition #africanwriters #writerslife #submissions #extendeddeadline #writing #creativewriting #fictionwriting #writingcommunity
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Is the ink dry yet?
Link to submit : https://www.hhousebooks.com/the-island-prize-2023-2024/#africanwriters #africanauthors #writingcompetition #deadlines #submissions #theislandprize
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The Island Prize, 2023-2024, open for submissions
#authors #writers of #Africa - have you a first novel that's looking for a home? Why not submit to the Island Prize competition, open now for #submissions ? It's free to enter, and you might find mentorship, an agent, a publisher ....
https://hhousebooks.com/the-island-prize-2023-2024/
#writingcommunity #africanwriters #africanauthors #africanliterature #writing #novel #writingcompetition #theislandprize
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🖥 Suggestion for the evening:
the lecture "An investigation into Mário Pinto de Andrade's archive", which Elisa Scaraggi presented in the "Africa at Noon" cycle at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is now available on YouTube.
This cycle of weekly lectures has been running since 1973!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVJ7Nz2OTSM
#Histodons #LitStudies #MárioPintoDeAndrade #AfricanStudies #HistoryAndLiterature #Literature #AfricanWriters #AfricaAtNoon #MPLA #Angola
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The Island Prize is open again! Read up on submission guidelines, and submit using either the form (bottom of the page) or by email directly to [email protected]
https://hhousebooks.com/the-island-prize-2023-2024/
Good luck!
#africanauthors #africanwriters #writingcompetition #theislandprize #novelwriting #writerslife #amwriting #writingcommunity #unpublishedauthors
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Ben Okri on writing his Booker Prize-winning novel The Famished Road | The Booker Prize
"In a new film made exclusively for the Booker Prizes, Ben Okri, the first Black winner of the Booker Prize, explains how he had to create fresh techniques to tell a story rooted in his African childhood"
#BenOkri #BlackMastodon #BookerPrize #Literature #Art #Books #BlackTwitter #AfricanWriters #BlackWriters #AfricanAmerican #Poetry #Documentary #Film #TheBookerPrize
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An African Abroad by Olabisi Ajala:
"When he's not breaking through security to shake the hands of Nikita Khrushchev, he is crashing his scooter through a border between Jordan and Israel in the then partitioned Jerusalem, amidst a hail of gunfire, escaping an assassination attempt in Jordan, or dodging the bullets of eager security agents.."
https://www.amazon.com/African-Abroad-Annotated-Olabisi-Ajala/dp/B0BMH3GQ8G
#AnAfricanAbroad #OlabisiAjala #Literature #BlackMastodon #BlackWriters #Travelogue #AfricanWriters #AfricanAmericanWriters
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An African Abroad by Olabisi Ajala:
"When he's not breaking through security to shake the hands of Nikita Khrushchev, he is crashing his scooter through a border between Jordan and Israel in the then partitioned Jerusalem, amidst a hail of gunfire, escaping an assassination attempt in Jordan, or dodging the bullets of eager security agents.."
https://www.amazon.com/African-Abroad-Annotated-Olabisi-Ajala/dp/B0BMH3GQ8G
#AnAfricanAbroad #OlabisiAjala #Literature #BlackMastodon #BlackWriters #Travelogue #AfricanWriters #AfricanAmericanWriters
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An African Abroad by Olabisi Ajala:
"When he's not breaking through security to shake the hands of Nikita Khrushchev, he is crashing his scooter through a border between Jordan and Israel in the then partitioned Jerusalem, amidst a hail of gunfire, escaping an assassination attempt in Jordan, or dodging the bullets of eager security agents.."
https://www.amazon.com/African-Abroad-Annotated-Olabisi-Ajala/dp/B0BMH3GQ8G
#AnAfricanAbroad #OlabisiAjala #Literature #BlackMastodon #BlackWriters #Travelogue #AfricanWriters #AfricanAmericanWriters
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INTERVIEW: Nobel prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah talks about his writing life: "Abdulrazak Gurnah has published ten novels, a couple of short stories and some scholarly works."
#AbdulrazakGurnah #Nobel #Nobelprize #Literature #Writers #Tanzania #AfricanWriters #BlackMastodon #KunleAjibade #AkeArtsandBooksFestival #BlackFedi #LolaShoneyin #AfricanAmericanWriters #2021NobelPrizeForLiterature
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INTERVIEW: Nobel prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah talks about his writing life: "Abdulrazak Gurnah has published ten novels, a couple of short stories and some scholarly works."
#AbdulrazakGurnah #Nobel #Nobelprize #Literature #Writers #Tanzania #AfricanWriters #BlackMastodon #KunleAjibade #AkeArtsandBooksFestival #BlackFedi #LolaShoneyin #AfricanAmericanWriters #2021NobelPrizeForLiterature
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INTERVIEW: Nobel prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah talks about his writing life: "Abdulrazak Gurnah has published ten novels, a couple of short stories and some scholarly works."
#AbdulrazakGurnah #Nobel #Nobelprize #Literature #Writers #Tanzania #AfricanWriters #BlackMastodon #KunleAjibade #AkeArtsandBooksFestival #BlackFedi #LolaShoneyin #AfricanAmericanWriters #2021NobelPrizeForLiterature
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