1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (416+ words) Brittle Paper Writing Our Legacy Opens Applications for Covert 7’s “Ghana Issue,” in Partnership with Writers Project of Ghana | Submit by August 26 Writing Our Legacy has opened applications for a special edition of its Covert Talent Development Programme, built around…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (376+ words) by Daniel Rightman Badom Essays• Stories and Poems Features• Stories and Poems My mother said education is the key. Did she lie? Or was she lied to by those who held the lock and sipped tea? Because all I see…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (435+ words) Brittle Paper Charly Boy Unveils Explosive Memoir 999 in Lagos, With Obasanjo, Peter Obi in Attendance Charles “Charly Boy” Oputa, the veteran entertainer, activist, and self-styled “Area Fada” of Nigerian pop culture, formally presented his new memoir, 999: The Memoir of Charly…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (169+ words) Bookcraft Africa hosted a public celebration of Professor Niyi Osundare’s new essay collection, Truth Is Trouble: New and Selected Essays, Speeches, Tributes, Farewells, and Five Pivotal Interviews, drawing literary figures and readers for an evening of conversation, audience questions, and…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (545+ words) by Praise Okeoghene Vandeh For this feature of Sonic Pages by Brittle Paper, Adeyemo takes us through Efun’s Jazz playlist, which moves from Afrobeats and gospel to jazz and R&B and a lot of Yoruba chants. She also discusses…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (535+ words) Brittle Paper Open Book Festival 2026 Programme Is Out: I.O. Echeruo, Gabeba Baderoon, Sue Nyathi, Kopano Matlwa, and Krystle Zara Appiah are Panelists at Cape Town’s Biggest Literary Weekend The Open Book Festival, Cape Town’s flagship literary gathering, will hold its main…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (274+ words) Brittle Paper Call for Submissions: Dominion II Seeks Speculative Fiction of Black Resistance | Submit by February 28, 2027 Crowne Books, the Black woman-owned independent press behind the acclaimed 2020 anthology Dominion, has opened submissions for its long-awaited sequel, Dominion II: Speculative Stories of Black…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (175+ words) Book Feature• Book News by Daniel Rightman Badom Scholastique Mukasonga, the Rwandan writer whose work has spent two decades bearing witness to the genocide against the Tutsi, is returning this November with a book that marks a departure. Murmurs from…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (157+ words) by Daniel Rightman Badom Élékéré Press, a new independent boutique publisher based in Abuja, has introduced the Élékéré Prize for Fiction, a $500 award for outstanding short stories by Black writers. The inaugural edition centers on the theme “Inheritance,” inviting submissions…...

6+ day, 2+ min ago   (383+ words) Brittle Paper A Third Space Opens Submissions Today for New Queer West African Anthology, Mismemories; Offers $100 Honorarium | Deadline: September 30 A Third Space, working alongside CHEVS, is now accepting submissions for Mismemories: Contemporary Writing from Queer West-African Voices, a forthcoming anthology…...