4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (385+ words) by Praise Okeoghene Vandeh Your collections respond to some of Nigeria’s most pressing realities. What does it mean to write poetry in a country that constantly gives its writers new reasons for alarm? All three collections engage with the past…...

5+ day, 1+ 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…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (313+ words) brittlepaper.com 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…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (212+ words) Brittle Paper Zimbabwean Author Blessing Musariri Stands as the Only African Finalist for the $50,000 2026 Kirkus Prize Blessing Musariri has made the shortlist for the 2026 Kirkus Prize, with her young adult novel When It’s Your Turn for Midnight selected as a…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (327+ words) Brittle Paper Koleka Putuma Nominated 2026 Featured Poet as Poetry Africa Marks its 30th Anniversary Edition Putuma’s body of work has always resisted staying in one lane. Across three poetry collections, a children’s book, and several plays, she has treated the body…...

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, 5+ 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…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (433+ words) Brittle Paper Abebi AfroNonfiction Foundation Launches Inaugural Continental Fellowship for African Women Writers | Closes September 12 The Abebi AfroNonfiction Foundation has announced the inaugural Abebi AfroNonfiction Fellowship, a new pan-African writing initiative for women working in creative nonfiction. The fellowship brings…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (604+ words) by Kris Van der Bijl by Praise Okeoghene Vandeh We also spoke about the evolution of African literature over the past five years, the changing landscape of African fiction, the advent of AI and its implications for writers and editors,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (438+ words) Nnedi Okorafor’s Death of the Author Shortlisted for Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award Brittle Paper Nnedi Okorafor’s Death of the Author Shortlisted for Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award Nnedi Okorafor has announced that her genre-bending novel Death of the Author…...