2+ hour, 54+ min ago  (116+ words) Brittle Paper Saraba Magazine Is Accepting Submissions For Two Categories | Submit by June 30 Saraba Magazine has opened submissions for two distinct categories: new unpublished work for its general submissions round, and previously published work for a newly launched archival initiative…...

20+ hour, 45+ min ago  (538+ words) Brittle Paper Nnedi Okorafor Wins Two 2026 Locus Awards; Somto Ihezue Also Takes Home a Win for his Novelette The 2026 Locus Awards, which had Africans shortlisted in 6 categories, were announced on May 30 at a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, in partnership…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (568+ words) Brittle Paper M. H. Ayinde, Eugen Bacon, C. L. Hellisen, and Chukwunonso Ezeiyoke Earn Six Nominations Across the 2026 British Fantasy Awards Shortlists Four African writers have secured six nominations between them on the 2026 British Fantasy Awards shortlists. Established by the British Fantasy Society and…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago  (569+ words) Brittle Paper Stella Gaitano and Safae el Khannoussi among finalists for the 2026 Internationaler Literaturpreis Prize Two African writers are among the six finalists for the 2026 Internationaler Literaturpreis, the prestigious German prize for contemporary literature in translation awarded by the Haus…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (189+ words) Essays" Stories and Poems Series " Stories and Poems So, you see, I am envious of people who can reinvent on the spot and be vulnerable with strangers over and over again. Even more admirable is doing it with the knowledge…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (85+ words) Essays" Stories and Poems by Olamide "d" Olanrewaju The world feels loud, even when I'm alone. I don't know when I started feeling like I was behind. Maybe it was after graduation, or maybe it was when I saw that…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago  (181+ words) by Praise Okeoghene Vandeh Features" Fiction - Anthology" News" Nonfiction The judges" response to The Comfort of Distant Stars is worth sitting with. One judge wrote: This novel is energetic, & stylish, & asks a sharp political question: who gets to describe the…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (346+ words) Brittle Paper Nigerian-American Olufunke Grace Bankole and Kenyan-American Stephanie Wambugu Named Among Top 10 Finalists for the 2026 Cabell First Novelist Award Named after the James Branch Cabell Library at VCU, the award draws on an unusually rigorous and community-rooted selection process:…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (452+ words) by John Chinaka Onyeche Essays" Stories and Poems The river is patient. It has claimed the pain of droughts and floods, of famines, of wars that swept through and left the town completely gutted. It has embraced the grief of…...

4+ week, 18+ hour ago  (201+ words) What does the forest know? In African fiction, it has never been merely background. For many African novelists, the forest is something far more alive and strange: a laboratory where the rules of the world can be broken apart and…...