📣The Caine Prize for African Writing is delighted to announce that South African writer Nadia Davids has been awarded the 2024 Caine Prize for African Writing for her outstanding short story, Bridling, published in The Georgia Review in 2023. 📚🌟🇿🇦 Congratulations Nadia! ✨

Hey folks! We're back with our 3rd reveal. Any guesses? This #VIP says it all while 'speaking of nothing' and they seem to have a thing for both water and sea ⛵🌊 🤔 Comment below👇 Answer out tomorrow! Big thanks to British Council Catalyst Press Karavan Press Laxfield Literary

We are excited to share our 2025 Pushcart nominations: THERESA SYLVESTER (Theresa Sylvester), MUUKA GWABA (Muuka at Another drop of ink ), AUSTIN KALUBA (Austin Kaluba ), NATASHA DEVALIA, MALI KAMBANDU (Mali Kambandu), and MWANABIBI SIKAMO (mwanabibi sikamo). Congratulations to all the nominees!

“Proverbs are shapeshifters, changing their meaning depending on both speaker and listener,” writes @UtushimiTwandi, author of Obligations to the Wounded (University of Pittsburgh Press). Read on: at.pw.org/WRKalimamukwen…

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Congratulations to Ubwali Literary Magazines, EIC, Mubanga Kalimamukwento (@UtushimiTwandi ) on winning the 2024 Dzanc Prize for Fiction for her second novel, SHIPIKISHA. dzancbooks.org/blog/announcin…

Calling all photographers and visual art lovers! Mark your calendars: our amazing Visual Arts Editor, Namukolo Siyumbwa (!Xolo), will be at Unpublished in Africa on December 8th at 2 PM to host the Lusaka Photo Walk. See you there! Register here - airtable.com/app7Nb0zw7F2u5…

A 2024 Miles Morland Writing Scholar! I am reeling! I always think of 2023 Writivism Prizes as my beginning. They do such beautiful work of finding diamonds in the rough! I am so grateful for everyone and everything that led me to this point where MMF became something attainable. ❤️🥹

African literature thrives thanks to small, independent presses—and the 2024 AFRICAN SMALL PUBLISHERS CATALOGUE celebrates their work! Featuring 60+ publishers across the continent, the catalogue is a hub for connection, collaboration, and discovery. brittlepaper.com/2024/12/the-sm…

Celebrity by Emily Pensulo What does it take to rise from obscurity to fame? This short story is a sharp, unflinching tale of ambition, illusion, and the cost of digital fame. #SocialMediaFame #ZambianWriters #brurev thebrusselsreview.com/emily-pensulo/…

TBR Winter 24 is here. Get it on Amazon everywhere now. thebrusselsreview.com/dritan-kici/wi…

Merry Christmas everyone. It is time to apply to join us at Costa Navarino for the OXBELLY RETREATS 2025! Come and see great writers wine and dine in the most beautiful place in the world! Past and future guests have and will include Rebecca Makkai, Bill Clegg, Fiammetta Rocco,

In this new collection of short African fiction, people seek, find, and lose love; lovers cheat; fathers reconcile with their daughters; revolutions, both personal and national, happen; mothers alienate their sons… hararereview.wordpress.com/2024/12/28/cap…

📣Exciting news! Oxbelly is pleased to invite worldwide applications for their Fiction Writers Program held at Costa Navarino in historic Messinia, Greece. Deadline: 22 January Learn more:🔗 commonwealthfoundation.com/opportunity/th…

the Ubwali Literary Magazine special issue is almost out. congratulations to all the contributors!

The 2025 #CWprize shortlist is here! Meet the 25 writers selected after a record-breaking year. Five regional winners will be announced on 14 May, before the overall winner is named on 25 June. Meet the writers and learn more about their stories 👇 commonwealthfoundation.com/short-story-pr…

📣 The Ubwali Hope Prize is back! 🏆 $500 + publication in Shenandoah ✍️ Mentorship for 1 runner-up 🌟 NEW: A class with Caine Prize–winner Makena Onjerika Makena Onjerika for another runner-up Open to Zambian writers published in Ubwali last year. Shortlist in June, winner in July.

🔊 We're thrilled to announce the 2025 Ubwali Hope Prize Shortlist. ✨ Dacious Kasoka ✨ Isaac Kanyinji ✨ Mwanabibi Sikamo ✨ Suwilanji Namusamba ✨ Mwila Agatha Zaza ✨ Mwinji Siame 🏆 Winner gets $500 + publication in Shenandoah Magazine.