✨ BP 100 Notable African Books of 2025 are here! 🎉
27 countries. New voices. Romance + speculative fiction on the rise. African & indie publishers leading the way. In spite of all the challenges, the culture is doing more than just okay👏🏿 Full list 👇📚 https://t.co/T8vrthpGS2
.@CassavaRepublic Press wants your best Literary Fiction and Speculative Fiction manuscripts by June 30. The press behind THE MERCY STEP is looking for new, imaginative writing that reflects the best of what the Black world has to offer ✍🏾✨ https://t.co/boLpWzOPBl
Sudanese-American novelist Fatin Abbas is bringing GHOST SEASON to the UK this June for a five-stop paperback tour, with events in Brighton, Sevenoaks, and London. Catch her from June 20 to 27! 📚🖋️ https://t.co/SVRaorSqRh
“One of the things that intrigue me whenever reading work by diasporic writers is that they are drawing from the same epistemological space as the African writers on the continent.” — Goretti Kyomuhendo (via @brittlepaper)
The 2026 @WasafiriMag New Writing Prize is open for fiction, poetry, and life writing. No nationality restrictions. Winners receive £1,000 and publication in Wasafiri. Submit by June 30! 🖋️ https://t.co/aGnx0uLZ2A
Saraba Magazine has opened two submission calls: new unpublished work due June 30, and the Revival Project, which is reclaiming African writing buried in defunct journals and print-only archives 🗞️ @Sarabamag
https://t.co/i5BIQxzQoI
Go read @Maenad20's critical review of Oyin Braithwaite's latest, Cursed Daughters out from @brittlepaper. The Nigerian literary ecosystem needs more honest, critical reviews of books, and this is one of them.
See here:
https://t.co/AnaichujzM
throwback to our launch party : ) Brittle Paper will forever be known in history as a pivotal part of documenting and archiving within the African literary scene/space.
Nigerian writers took home three Locus Awards in one night. @Nnedi Okorafor won Best Science Fiction Novel and Best Illustrated Book. @somto_Ihezue won Best Novelette. Nigeria showed up 🏆✨ https://t.co/sPWVENebXN
.@MajestyAfrica_ has launched a fully funded four-week residency for emerging women writers without literary representation from Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, and South Africa. Applications are due June 22! 👩🏾💻 https://t.co/VeApN92uTE
“If you wish to belong to yourself, you must forgive your mother. She knows not what she does or has done. But we do.” Read Taiye Selasi’s short story for firstborn immigrant daughters: https://t.co/TPkBvOAq5G
“I genuinely think that book influencers are, to some extent, shouldering the work of marketing in Nigeria today.” @IkechukwuChielo makes the case for book influencing as a serious literary practice in our latest interview. 🎙️
https://t.co/qveuDJVLDy
Nathacha Appanah’s LA NUIT AU CŒUR has been chosen by student readers in Mauritius for the Prix Goncourt Choix de l’île Maurice, making Mauritius the 25th country to award her the Choix Goncourt, a record in the prize’s history 📖🖋️
https://t.co/ZdMXvGWy1U
Four African writers have secured six nominations at the 2026 British Fantasy Awards. @MHAyinde, @EugenBacon, C.L. Hellisen, and @EzeiyokeC. Winners announced at Fantasycon in Glasgow, October 9–11 📚✨
https://t.co/OcqhRygFwB
Thank you so much @brittlepaper
Nigerian-Canadian Poet Jide Salawu Earns Double Shortlist Nod from the League of Canadian Poets for Debut Collection Contraband Bodies https://t.co/SeONL6Rhzb
Stella Gaitano writes in Arabic so that northern Sudanese can hear southern stories. Safae el Khannoussi wrote a debut that broke thirty years of Dutch literary prize history. Both are shortlisted for the 2026 Internationaler Literaturpreis 🖋️🏆
https://t.co/ROs2hcpdIP
The 2026 Karoo Writers Festival returns to Cradock from June 18 to 20, hosted at the childhood home of Olive Schreiner, South Africa’s first internationally celebrated writer. Three days of readings, launches, and conversation 📖☕️
https://t.co/20gPM0Q8GT
“That Yale is hosting this conversation in Zanzibar rather than New Haven is a significant gesture that the field is at least trying to situate knowledge production closer to its actual subjects”—👇🏿