Exciting news for UNL Creative Writing!!! A BIG book deal for the brilliant Ber Anena Ber Anena, for her nonfiction book THE LIES WE TELL FOR AMERICA University of Nebraska-Lincoln Nebraska CAS Mark E. Button UNL Creative Writing

Ber Anena's THE LIES WE TELL FOR AMERICA was recently acquired by Flatiron Books in a six-figure deal! Anena is the winner of the 2018 Wole Soyinka prize and has been published in The Atlantic, the New Daughters of Africa anthology, and more. brittlepaper.com/2024/11/uganda…

Hello, Jim Spire Ssentongo! Kindly check your DM when you get a moment. Webale.

The cover of the seventh issue of The Weganda Review, set to be published on January 10. The issue features a compelling mix of essays, poetry, fiction, photography and art. Cover art is a detail from "Sunset in Batsinda," a painting by Junior Mudahunga. Ber Anena Charles Onyango-Obbo

This is such a solid issue. Look out for fiction, nonfiction, analytical journalistic pieces and poems by@araoameny and Mwaniga Gloria Minage and more.

We're so excited to congratulate Romeo Oriogun! His book THE GATHERING OF BASTARDS (African Poetry Book Fund) is a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award! Winners to be announced February 1st. bit.ly/4hmdJMv

I’m grateful to the editors of The Shallow Tales Review Review for publishing my poems in their latest issue. “The Wall” particularly speaks to the day’s immigration issue. Special thanks to the poetry editor Rasaq Malik Gbọ́láhàn Listen or read at the link. theshallowtalesreview.com.ng/three-poems-be…

The 2025 Raz-Shumaker Book Prize is still open for submissions! Send us your manuscripts of poetry or short fiction by March 15. Winners will receive $3000 and publication through the University of Nebraska Press. For more details on the prize, see the link in the comments:

Writing rituals, creativity, freedom & endless inspiration are indeed a writer’s dream. In this instalment of our conversation series, Ber Anena (Ber Anena ) and Sarah Yanni (sarah yanni ) explore our relationship to subject matter. Read here: 🤎👇🏾 2035africa.org/conversations/…

Had a chat with Sarah Yanni about writing and more. Check it out 2035africa.org/conversations/…

“ I’m also learning to accept moments where I can’t or don’t want to write, to define writing more broadly to include the thinking that happens before I pick up a pen, the reading I do to get inspiration, and the living I do…” – Ber Anena (Ber Anena ). 2035africa.org/conversations/…

The Weganda Review has been named a finalist for the 2025 Firecracker Award in the category of Magazines/Best Debut. We are grateful for the recognition of our work. CLMP Ber Anena

One of the books l read as a child was by Ngugi wa Thiong’o. He was among the authors who stirred my love for writing. I’m sad to hear of his passing today. What a loss to the world and to literature. May God receive him with mercy. Photo: UCI Podcast