4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (388+ words) Brittle Paper Macondo Literary Festival 2026, themed “Ink, Sea, Silence,” will take place in Nairobi from September 18–20, 2026 The Macondo Literary Festival returns to Nairobi for its sixth edition, running September 18–20, 2026, under the theme Ink, Sea, Silence, a frame built around Africa’s…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (515+ words) Brittle Paper 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…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (564+ words) "History Is Handmade": Ayesha Harruna Attah and Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu Among the Lineup for the 2026 Doek Literary Festival, September 30–October 3 brittlepaper.com “History Is Handmade”: Ayesha Harruna Attah and Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu Among the Lineup for the 2026 Doek Literary Festival,…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (961+ words) Brittle Paper The Inaugural Brittle Paper Literary Festival Was a Homecoming for the Writers We’ve Watched Grow The day opened with Session I: Brittle Paperians, a two-part reading showcasing writers who found their first audience on Brittle Paper’s pages. The…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (399+ words) PHOTOS: Bolu Babalola’s Real-Life Love Story Gets the Vogue Treatment! Brittle Paper The story of how they met has the texture of one of her own plots. On a January evening in Lagos during “Detty December,” a stranger at a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (273+ words) by Praise Okeoghene Vandeh What happens when the fate of an entire people rests on the shoulders of a cursed warrior and a healer who can barely trust his own magic? In U. M. Agoawike’s debut novel, Black as Diamond, the answer…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (165+ words) Below is the full synopsis, for anyone willing to look past the cover. MARRIAGE WAS NEVER SADE’S IDEA. Sade became a wife twice over. First, to cover a shame that was never hers to carry. Then again, because apparently, a…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (520+ words) Brittle Paper “You Are the First Thing Your Mother Could Own”: Taiye Selasi’s Fiction Debut in The New Yorker Is a Firstborn Daughter’s Reckoning Taiye Selasi has a new story in The New Yorker, and it reads more like a…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (453+ words) September is around the corner, summer is winding down, and we’re stepping into a new season! Not to say anything, but Beyoncé was born in September, so it might just be the best month of the year. And, as it…...