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@HouseofAnansi “It helps their eyes adjust,” the woman tells you, and you try not to picture the single bulb hanging over the mattress back home.""

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@VascoDaGappah Congratulations!

[Petina Gappah @VascoDaGappah]

I'm thrilled to be the 2026 recipient of the Flora Nwapa Literary Society Award. I'm honoured to be given an award that honours the first African woman ever published.

I'm also stoked beyond belief as the award was also given to one of my household goddesses, Toni Morrison.

[Lọlá Shónẹ́yìn @lolashoneyin]

A few months ago, I posted about an eighteen-month internship at @ouidabooks for four young women.

Meet our four new publishing interns: Dami, Rere, Mena, and Esther. They will work across editorial, production, marketing, event management, and sales to understand how the different parts of the industry interact. There are mistakes I would not have made in publishing if I had a 360 view. The course will also involve access to the international scene.

Welcome to the team, ladies! I am delighted to be working with you all.

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Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think x Ainehi Edoro

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[Asymptote Journal @asymptotejrnl]

Congratulations to Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and past contributor Lin King, winners of the International Booker Prize for Taiwan Travelogue!

The first winner translated from Mandarin Chinese, the judges praised this as a “romance and an incisive postcolonial novel”: https://t.co/5fsKENFJYR

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@HouseofAnansi “It helps their eyes adjust,” the woman tells you, and you try not to picture the single bulb hanging over the mattress back home.""

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"The room is filled with a foreign softness; it makes you uncomfortable. A menagerie of plush toys lines the inside of the crib. A shaggy carpet captures your footprints as you move across it. Even the lamp emanates a light so soft it barely casts shadows.

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Lol can no longer post here? Good thing HRB is everywhere else 🤷🏿

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Launch of Prof. Lloyd Sachikonye's Many Hills to Climb

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[Iska Press & Mag 🇺🇸 @Iskanchipress]

This summer, we’re saying yes to African stories that misbehave.

If your writing is too experimental, too unusual, or too “unlike anything we’ve seen before”…

Good.

Send it.

Deadline: May 31
Submit to: [email protected]

[Cave Canem @cavecanempoets]

Don't hold on to your manuscripts for too long! Submissions for the 2027 Cave Canem Prize, judged by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown, close April 30 at 11:59 PM ET. Visit https://t.co/aRzXDG60dx to learn more and submit.

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HRB is honoured that Frank Sayi was able to answer some questions about his memoir, No Safer Kinder Hatred: How Racial Hatred and Ethnic Violence Shaped Zimbabwe.

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No Safer Kinder Hatred: How Racial Hatred and Ethnic Violence Shaped Zimbabwe x Frank Thabani Sayi

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[Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk]

In my hands: delighted to receive a super-advance copy of Adam Ouston’s second novel, Mine, in a glorious hardcover edition from @transitlounge2! Not out till August, but a signal event in OzLit, methinks, composed as it is in a single sentence…

[Hussani Abdulrahim @Hussaniabdul4]

I'm glad to share that I’ve been shortlisted for the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for my story "Arewa Girls"

Congratulations to all the shortlisted writers. And immense gratitude to the judges& organisers. Thanks to friends& fam for all ur love❤️

#CWprize
@cwfcreatives

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@Hussaniabdul4 @cwfcreatives Many congratulations!!

[Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest]

📣Meet the official cohort of The Bocas-Jacaranda Short Story Intensive!
Tanya Batson-Savage🇯🇲
Darryn Boodan🇹🇹
Astrid Casimire🇹🇹
Kevin Garbaran🇬🇾
Jolyn Gayle🇯🇲
Sio Lyons🇻🇮
Kirese Narinesingh🇹🇹
Zephrine Royer 🇩🇲/🇲🇶
Christina Katrina Smith🇧🇧
Rea Vanterpool🇻🇬
#bocas2026 .../2

[Kirkus Reviews @KirkusReviews]

The winners of the 2026 Whiting Awards, which recognize writers for early accomplishments and promising talent, have been revealed. Elaine Castillo, Karen Hao, and Carvell Wallace are among the 10 authors who received this year’s honors. https://t.co/QQJJgb1Mbi

[Commonwealth Foundation Creatives @cwfcreatives]

Ghanaian, Kenyan, Nigerian and South African writers represent the Africa region on this year’s Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist.

‘Orchard of Blackbirds’ is Lois Akoma Antwi’s first internationally recognised work. Narrated by a teenage girl in a Bosnian town on the edge of war, the story reflects Antwi’s interest in giving voice to those sidelined by history. She has an academic background in political science and international affairs.

Set in Kenya, ‘The Runner’s Gift’ follows Mercy, a gifted distance runner contending with inherited scars, family survival and the hidden cost of excellence. Ken Odak Odumbe (@oddacken) brings 19 years of experience in international development to his writing, often bridging development perspectives with creative expression.

Dawn Immanuel (@dawn_immanuel) is a Nigerian writer and editor based in Ibadan. Her debut short story, ‘The God under the Bed’, explores a young girl coming of age under rigid rules and the governance of an unseen god in her home. She is also the founder of Patchwork Quilt, an end-to-end book production studio.

Hussani Abdulrahim (@hussaniabdul4) was longlisted for the Prize in 2023 and has previously won the Writivism Prize and the Toyin Falola Prize. His story, ‘Arewa Girls’, explores the shared experiences of Northern Nigerian women navigating patriarchal and religious-cultural norms.

In ‘Shock Me I Shock You’, two siblings play a mischievous game that allows them to navigate family dysfunction and personal identity. Ola W. Halim (@OlaposiH) was previously shortlisted in 2021 for ‘An Analysis of a Fragile Affair’.

Nigerian-born Oluwatoke Adejoye (@ttoke_adejoye) now lives and works in Vancouver. Published in Harvard’s Transition Magazine and The New Quarterly, her story ‘New Things’ is set during Nigeria’s transition to democracy, centring on a teenage boy navigating a new guardian and a rapidly evolving country.

‘Me and Ma’am’ unfolds over the course of a single day, capturing the complex relationship between a domestic worker and her employer. Its writer, Lisa-Anne Julien, is originally from Trinidad and Tobago and now lives in Johannesburg. Her novel ‘If You Save Me’ won the University of Johannesburg’s 2022 Debut Prize for Fiction.

Learn more about this year’s shortlist: https://t.co/opgPF77WSx

[BRITTLE PAPER @brittlepaper]

.@masobebooks has acquired Nigerian rights to five works by BSFA winner @EugenBacon one of the most decorated voices in African speculative fiction. The deal brings her Afrofuturism, dystopia, and irrealism to Nigerian readers! 📚 https://t.co/Z0UvyIR7kf