Africa
Thursday – 7th June 2018
Open Book Festival announces first group of authors confirmed for Cape Town
The first group of authors has been announced for the eighth Open Book Festival! This year’s Open Book will take place from …
Tuesday – 29th May 2018
The Gods Who Send Us Gifts: An Anthology of African Short Stories captures the range, diversity, richness and wisdom of current writing
The Gods Who Send Us Gifts: An Anthology of African Short Stories is a historic and important anthology featuring some of the most eloquent and gifted voices (both young and old) from Africa, capturing moments of critical cultural shift in celebration of this historic event in 1962.
New book alert! Vagabond: Wandering Through Africa on Faith by Lerato Mogoatlhe
Vagabond: Wandering Through Africa on Faith by Lerato Mogoatlhe will be out from BlackBird Books in September 2018!
Monday – 28th May 2018
Simultaneously heartbreaking and heart-warming: Sue Nyathi’s new novel The Gold Diggers
The Gold Diggers, the much-anticipated second novel from Sue Nyathi, is out in June from Pan Macmillan!
Friday – 25th May 2018
Pwaangulongii Dauod wins Gerald Kraak Award for his essay ‘Africa’s future has no space for stupid black men’
Pwaangulongii Dauod has won the R25 000 Gerald Kraak Award, which honours African writing and photography that ‘provokes thought on the topics of gender, social justice and sexuality’.
Thursday – 24th May 2018
Short Story Day Africa Prize shortlist revealed
The shortlist for the 2017 Short Story Day Africa Prize for Short Fiction has been revealed. This year’s prize theme is ‘ID’, …
2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist announced
African shortlistees this year hail from Uganda (Harriet Anena), South Africa (Fred Khumalo and Michelle Sacks), Ghana (Cheryl Ntumy) and Nigeria (Efua Traoré and Obi Umeozor).
Tuesday – 22nd May 2018
Don’t miss the launch of Patagonia by Maya Fowler at Love Books
Maya is an award-winning South African writer, and this fascinating novel, she transports us to the wide Patagonian plains, where the Afrikaans language survives to this day.
Africa’s newest genre – the queer Afro-modern – showcased in As You Like It: The Gerald Kraak Anthology Vol 2
As You Like It: The Gerald Kraak Anthology Vol 2 brings together stories of self-expression, identity, sexuality and agency, all located within Africa and its legacy.
Achille Mbembe honoured with 2018 Ernst Bloch Prize
Author and academic Achille Mbembe will receive the 2018 Ernst Bloch Prize this year.
Sunday – 6th May 2018
Don’t miss the launch of new African short story collection The Gods Who Send Us Gifts at UJ with Wole Soyinka
The South African launch of the book The Gods Who Send Us Gifts: An Anthology of African Short Stories will take place at the University of Johannesburg.
Wednesday – 2nd May 2018
2018 Short Story Africa Day Prize announced: This year’s theme is Hotel Africa
Submissions open 1 June 2018* | Submissions close 31 August 2018
First prize: $800 | Second prize: $200 | Third prize: $100
Two Cape Town launches for Zukiswa Wanner’s Hardly Working
Zukiswa Wanner will be in Cape Town this weekend to launch her new book, Hardly Working: A Travel Memoir of Sorts!
Monday – 30th April 2018
New edition of African Small Publishers’ Catalogue in progress
Calling African self-publishers, small and independent publishers, printers, book designers, editors, illustrators, booksellers, PR people, literary magazines, literary festivals – find out how to list or feature or take out an ad.
Thursday – 26th April 2018
BlackBird Books to publish The Eternal Audience of One, the debut novel by Rwandan-born Namibian writer Rémy Ngamije
BlackBird Books is expanding its borders with the publication of The Eternal Audience of One, the debut novel by Rwandan-born Namibian writer …
Friday – 20th April 2018
Heralding a new female voice in fiction: Ijangolet S Ogwang’s debut novel An Image in a Mirror
Achen and Nyakale: twin sisters, separated in childhood to inherit different destinies.
Tuesday – 10th April 2018
Details of Petina Gappah’s next novel Out of Darkness, Shining Light revealed!
Scribner beat out seven other publishing houses to win the North American rights to Petina Gappah’s next novel Out of Darkness, Shining Light, as well as her short story collection Rotten Row.
Thursday – 22nd March 2018
Poetry Potion 13 cover revealed
Poetry Potion is an online poetry journal that goes into print once ever quarter.
Tuesday – 20th March 2018
A story of unparalleled greed and western complicity – Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon
A vivid, heart-breaking portrait of the fate that so many African countries suffered after independence.
Jolyn Phillips wins the 2018 Humanities and Social Sciences Award for Tjieng Tjang Tjerries
Modjaji Books is thrilled to announce that Modjaji author Jolyn Phillips has won the 2018 Humanities and Social Science Award for her book Tjieng Tjang Tjerries and other stories.