2+ week, 2+ day ago  (1733+ words) It enters the room ahead of you with a certain presence. It shakes hands on your behalf. It tries to explain who you are. It apologises for any confusion. And sometimes, it even reveals more about you than you want…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago  (279+ words) Brittle Paper Peabody Award-Winning Cameroonian Filmmaker Osvalde Lewat Makes Her English-Language Debut with The Aquatics Osvalde Lewat is not new to acclaim, but she is new to English-language readers, and that is about to change. The Aquatics, Lewat's debut novel,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (51+ words) Series" Stories and Poems Essays" Stories and Poems Features" Stories and Poems Ayiyi Joel, TPC XVI, is a young emerging poet from Edo State in Nigeria. A Best Of The Net Nominee. Winner of the Shuzia Epiphany poetry competition. by…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (125+ words) Read the synopsis below: Eleven-year-old Alohan and his four-year-old sister Ivie are the children of a rainmaker, who performs elaborate rituals to bring or hold back the rain. One day, the rainmaker's luck runs out: it pours on the wrong…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (346+ words) One of the most restlessly genre-defying writers of their generation has just announced the book they say they have been waiting their entire career to write. Akwaeke Emezi's Eclipse & the Wolf is expected February 2, 2027, published by Harper Voyager US. Emezi…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (404+ words) Brittle Paper Chukwuebuka Ibeh's Blessings Is Nominated for the Netherlands' Best Book for Young Adults 2026 Zegeningen, the Dutch translation of Blessings, the debut novel by Nigerian writer and former Brittle Paper staff writer Chukwuebuka Ibeh, has been nominated for the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (297+ words) Brittle Paper Cameroonian Author Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi's Woman of the Lake Is Coming This Summer Spears Books has announced the signing of Makuchi, the pen name of Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, for the publication of her upcoming short story collection, Woman…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (408+ words) Brittle Paper Pictures and Recap: The African Book Festival Berlin 2026 The eighth edition of the African Book Festival Berlin, themed Welcome to the Club and held from May 29 to 31 at tak, Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg, wrapped up with the kind of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (167+ words) Petina Gappah, the Zimbabwean writer and one of the most celebrated voices in contemporary African fiction, has been named the 2026 recipient of the Flora Nwapa Literary Society Award. Gappah received the news with characteristic warmth and candour, writing on social…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (449+ words) Brittle Paper Sudanese-American Writer Fatin Abbas Is Bringing Ghost Season to the UK This June | Here Are All the Dates Fatin Abbas is a Sudanese-American fiction writer, cultural essayist, and academic, born in Khartoum and educated at the University of…...