1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (826+ words) An affair between 55-year-old widow Binta Zubairu and 25-year-old weed dealer Reza was bound to provoke condemnation in conservative Northern Nigeria. This story of love and longing - set against undercurrents of political violence - unfurls gently, revealing layers of emotion that…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (391+ words) Eghosa Imasuen's The Challengers Reimagines the Nigerian Business Story as Literary Nonfiction Brittle Paper Eghosa Imasuen’s The Challengers Reimagines the Nigerian Business Story as Literary Nonfiction Lagos’s literary and business worlds converged last week at the Radisson Blu Anchorage in…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (376+ words) Brittle Paper New York Black and African Literature Festival (NYBALF) Opens Call for Event Proposals for Its 2026 Harlem Festival | Deadline: August 7 The New York Black and African Literature Festival (NYBALF) is calling for event proposals from writers, artists, and community…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (491+ words) Brittle Paper Lagos International Poetry Festival (LIPFest) Announces the Inaugural Cohort of Its Craft and Development Lab The Lagos International Poetry Festival has named the ten writers who make up the inaugural cohort of its Craft and Development Lab, the…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (458+ words) Chika Unigwe’s Grace Is Headed to Russia and Slovenia! Brittle Paper Chika Unigwe’s Grace Is Headed to Russia and Slovenia! Chika Unigwe’s Grace, published by Canongate earlier this year, has sold translation rights to publishers in Russia and Slovenia, the…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (150+ words) This week, as the prize marks its tenth anniversary, it announced the shortlist for its 2025 edition nine manuscripts across three categories, selected from 230 submissions received from seven countries. The overall winners will be announced at a ceremony in Dar es…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (531+ words) by Salmah Oiza Salam by Praise Okeoghene Vandeh One of the highlights of my time in Berlin, this past month, was sharing the stage with Ben Okri for a conversation about books and the power of the imagination. Ben and…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (194+ words) by BRITTLE PAPER STAFF Bankole announced the win on Instagram in a statement that moved between gratitude and the feeling of a long-deferred arrival. “I’m incredibly proud to announce that my novel, The Edge of Water, is the WINNER of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (86+ words) by Salmah Oiza Salam Essays• Stories and Poems by BRITTLE PAPER STAFF by Michelle Ivy Alwedo Bill Nwonwu is an Indian Nigerian writer and poet. His essay What the Ugba Tree Remembers appeared in the Lọ́unlọ́un literary journal....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (335+ words) by BRITTLE PAPER STAFF Essays • Stories and Poems by Salmah Oiza Salam I write women who keep things. Private names. Private vows. Private cosmologies. Things that the household cannot see. And my second novel in development, Second Wife Season, which…...