A new literary magazine of African writing, whose inaugural issues if slated for July 2021, has announced a contest for African writers on the continent and in the Diaspora. This new literary outfit is “a space for African writers to tell the stories of the continent and its peoples worldwide.” Akuko’s vision includes…
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Africa, international, Poetry, Shona, zimbabwe
Poetry by Chisiya Writers’ Workshop Members
Rural Writers’ Organization Nurturing Talent This month Munyori Literary Journal publishes a special feature of Shona poets who are members of the Chisiya Writers’ Workshop Whatsapp Group, which is part of the Chisiya Writers’ Club. We are excited about this, as the works showcase the level of talent and hard work coming out of the…
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Interview in Shona: Tinashe Muchuri Anokurukura naIgnatius Mabasa
Munyori Shona Contributing Editor, Tinashe Muchuri, chats with Ignatius Mabasa on story telling in the Ngano genre. The interview is allowed to unfold organically, with all its kinks, knots, pauses, digressions, interruptions and empty spaces. In talking about ngano, the two writers were telling each other ngano; they were both audience and story-teller at the…
Africa, african writing, Fiction, international, new writing, writing contests, writivism shortlist
Tale by Vuyelwa Maluleke (South Africa)
Vuyelwa Maluleke is a Performance Poet, Scriptwriter and Actor, who holds a Bachelor of Arts in Dramatic Arts from the University of Witwatersrand. She was shortlisted for the Brunel University African Poetry Prize in 2014, and is the author of the chapbook “THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE”. A slam champion of the Word and…
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Ghana Boy by Frances Ogamba
Frances Ogamba’s stories appear in Afridiaspora and Writivism 2016 Short Story Prize Anthology, Dwartonline and Ynaija websites, and on Enkare review. She is a workshop alumnus of Writivism 2016, Ake fiction 2016, and Winter Tangerine 2016. She lives in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Go read her shortlisted story, “Ghana Boy”.
Africa, african writing, Fiction, international, new writing, writivism shortlist
Maserumo by Resoketswe Manenzhe
Resoketswe Manenzhe, author of “Maserumo”, is a PhD candidate with the chemical engineering department at the University of Cape Town; this, after receiving her master’s degree with distinction. Starting in 2015, her poems and short stories have appeared in several online magazines and journals, and in 2017, two of her poems were shortlisted for the Sol…
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Graywolf Press Announces Submission Period for the Second Africa Book Prize
A. Igoni Barrett is the author of a story collection, Love Is Power, or Something
Like That and a novel, Blackass. Barrett is the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. He lives in Nigeria.
Graywolf Press is an award-winning independent publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of contemporary American and international literature. Founded in 1974, the press is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota (www.graywolfpress.org).
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A River End in an Ocean by Obinna Jones (Nigeria)
Obinna Jones, shortlisted for the 2018 Short Story contest, is a Nigerian, sadly adult, studying Physics at Imo State University, Owerri. Writes, reads and stalks Facebook celebrities. Has a dream of winning a Nobel prize in Physics or literature or both. Has works of fiction on elsieisy’s blog and sidomexentertainment’s blog. Read “A River Ends…
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Hopes and Dreams by Mbogo Ireri (Kenya)
Mbogo Ireri, shortlisted for the 2018 Writivism short story contest, is 38 years old and was born in Embu, Kenya. He lives in Nairobi with his wife and son (although currently he is away on a short job contract in Doha, Qatar). He wrote his first short story, “One False Move,” when he was 18…
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The Photograph by Mali Kambandu (Zambia)
Mali Kambandu, shortlisted for the 2018 Writivism Fiction Contest, lives in Lusaka, Zambia, with her husband and two children. Mali’s writing influences are Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, but her most cherished book is To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. While storytelling came early for her, she didn’t write for pleasure until after university at…
