How to Apply For The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award 2020 (Prize: £30,000 + more)
Submissions are now open for the world’s richest prize for a single short story written in the English…
Anambra Young Writers Set To Fete Achebe’s 89th Birthday With Literary Festival
Literary enthusiasts, writers of all class and intellectuals alike, will this Saturday, 16th November converge again at the…
Call for submissions: 2020 African Writers Residency
Deadline: December 10, 2019. Being the second part of the PenPen African Project, the African Writers Development Trust,…
5 Paying Literary Markets to Submit to in November 2019
The following magazines pay for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and are a mix of literary and genre markets,…
Meet the 20 Shortlist for the 2019 Miles Morland Writing Scholarships
According to the press release, “The Miles Morland Foundation is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2019…
How To Apply For Stories Of The Nature Of Cities Flash Fiction Contest (Prizes: $6,500)
Writers are now encouraged to submit a very short story (up to 750 words) for the Stories of…
Stand a Chance to Win N2,000,000 in The UBA Foundation’s National Essay Competition
The corporate social responsibility arm of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, UBA Foundation is now open to…
How to Apply for 2019 Chimamanda’s Purple Hibiscus Trust Creative Writing Workshop
Now in the 10th year, The Purple Hibiscus Creative Writing Trust is now receiving applications for its workshop….
The Mother of all Corruption Scandals by Ayodele Gabriel
In 2009, Iraq planned to arrest 1000 officials for corruption after a scandal which forced the resignation of…
First All-Female Movie in Uganda Wins UK Art House Prize
Bed of Thorns, a movie about gender-based violence, has won the Africa Focus Award. This weekend, a film…