by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jul 14, 2021 | Gist Corner
Established in 2019 and awarded in honor of Robert B. Silvers, a founding editor of the New York Review of Books, The Silvers Grant for Work in Progress provides financial support to “writers working in the fields of long-form literary and arts criticism, the...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jul 14, 2021 | Gist Corner
Maryam Kazeem has emerged as the winner of the Huza Press/Goethe Institut Kigali Writing Residency, while Precious Collette Kemigisha came up as runner up. The residency seeks to support writers as they complete or make significant advances with a...
by Kasimma | Jul 9, 2021 | Fiction, Prose, Short Stories
After you buried your third child, your father, fed up with the deaths, summoned you. You were not surprised, no. You had expected his summons earlier, especially because the deaths of your first two children were exactly the same. Nine days after her birth, your...
by Omodero David Oghenekaro | Jul 9, 2021 | Poems
That moment of shy beauty archinglike a rainbow across the skyline of our thoughts. We look at what revelation it beckons,what lush grace of colours it casts upon the horizon. I have not known the night for a prank player but you,who like the sun, manages to slink...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jul 7, 2021 | Gist Corner
The NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature, one of the richest writing prizes in Africa, has announced its longlist. The prize, which started in 2004 to honour Nigerian authors, is being sponsored annually by oil firm NLNG. The prize worth is US$100,000, and is been given...
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