Free writing contests are becoming rarer, but quite a few of the African ones don’t require an entry fee. Here is one of them. Africa Book Club Short Reads Competition is a monthly short contest, which welcomes entries from writers across the continent and the Diaspora. They accept stories from non-African nationals provided the stories are contextually set…
Due to the upcoming elections in Zimbabwe, the dates for the Zimbabwe International Book Fair have revised. Originally scheduled to run from July 31st to August 3rd, the ZIBF will now run from September 30th to October 5th. This year’s theme is ” Enabling Creativity, Writing, Publishing and Reading for Africa’s Growth”. Poet Musaemura Zimunya, in a message to…
Our latest interview is by Geoffrey Gyasi, a writer, reader, poet and blogger at Geosi Reads. Here he is chatting with Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, a writer and professor of English. She talks about her career as an educator and about writing. Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo was born and raised in Eastern Nigeria, but now lives in Lagos. Raised partially in a rural environment…
“A pale ghost in my shadow, a diminutive flake-white elf awkwardly juxtaposed against my gangling form limping through the emerging twilight. That’s the image that stuck to the front of my mind for hours with a song in my head, our first sunset retold in a jazz rhythm” (from ‘Faces’ by Philani Nyoni).
