5+ day, 11+ hour 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, 13+ hour 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+ day, 23+ hour ago  (144+ words) The Serpent in the Grove" by Jamir Nazir is a story set in rural Trinidad about a struggling farmer, a silenced young wife and a grove that seems to remember what others try to bury. " Commonwealth Foundation Creatives (@cwfcreatives) May…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (431+ words) Brittle Paper South African Poet Siphokazi Jonas Wins 2025 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry for Debut Collection Weeping Becomes a River Siphokazi Jonas, the South African poet, playwright, performer, and producer, has been announced as the 2025 winner of the Glenna…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (647+ words) Brittle Paper Sci-Fi Author and University of Illinois Chicago Alumna Nnedi Okorafor Delivers Empowering Commencement Address to 10, 000 Graduates New York Times bestselling author Dr. Nnedi Okorafor returned to the University of Illinois Chicago on May 10, 2026, to deliver the commencement address…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (212+ words) Brittle Paper Eghosa Imasuen, Nigerian Publishing Titan, Turns 50 in Style A day before his birthday, Eghosa took to social media with honest, warm, and wonderstruck words: "It's been good. A good half century. A good year. Published books I'm proud…...

3+ day, 23+ 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…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (693+ words) Book Reviews " Essays "Let It Die" strikes one as Ngwenya's most poetically inclined work so far, with the possible exception of A Portrait of Emlanjeni (2023). Where Portrait works out the idyllic plausibility of how beautiful a place can be away…...

6+ day, 39+ min ago  (164+ words) by Praise Okeoghene Vandeh Risi, reflecting on the process, said: "My heart is overflowing that so many people chose and decided to make the effort, to find the time, to find the energy, to find the courage, to send us…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago  (554+ words) Brittle Paper South African Poet Gabeba Baderoon Selected to Judge the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry | Submit by October 1 There are prizes, and then there are prizes that feel like a genuine act of witness. The Glenna Luschei Prize…...