NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Two alumni of the 2024 CANEX Writing Workshop, Habiba Dokubo-Asari and Efemia Chela, have received the 2025 Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award.

Every year, since 2018, Brittlepaper curates a list of 100 books that have left a mark on African literary culture.

This UK-based prize includes categories like Travel Book of the Year, Fiction with a Sense of Place, and more.

The Botswana Literature Awards 2024 winners were announced in Gaborone on Saturday, December 14, 2024.

The Brittle Paper Awards celebrates individuals and organisations that create space for African literary culture.

Home to the third largest international book and publishing fair in Africa, Rabat will kick off the year of celebrations on 23 April 2026, on World Book and Copyright Day.

Sada Malumfashi founded and curated the Hausa International Book and Arts Festival to showcase the best contemporary African literature, poetry, music, art, film, and theatre in Hausa.

Israel Campos, a participant in the 2024 CANEX Creative Writing Workshop, has won the second Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda/Angola Literature Prize for Baloiço de Memória.

The sixth edition of the African Small Publishers Catalogue showcases over 60 publishers from across Africa.

The Miles Morland Foundation has awarded the 2024 Morland African Writing Scholarships to Carey Baraka (Kenya), Fayssal Bensalah (Algeria), Yvette Ndlovu (Zimbabwe), and Frances Ogamba (Nigeria).