by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jul 27, 2021 | Gist Corner
The UK & Commonwealth Rights (excluding Canada) for Adorah Nworah’s novel House Woman has been acquired by Ore Agbaje-Williams, Editor at The Borough Press. House Woman will be published in the UK in spring 2023, and in the US by Unnamed Press in autumn 2022. The...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jul 22, 2021 | Gist Corner
Along House is currently seeking for its first issue, Origin. They are interested in critical discourse, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, philosophy, memoirs, conversations, photography, collages, illustrations, sound and soundscapes, film and works that connect a long...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jul 22, 2021 | Gist Corner
Now in it’s ninth year, the 2021 Ake Arts and Book Festival theme for this year has been tagged “Generational Discordance.” Here is a statement by the organizers: “From relationships, love and marriage, spirituality and religion, gender and feminism to politics and...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jul 22, 2021 | Gist Corner
Petina Gappah has been selected as one of the judges for the International Booker Prize 2022. This year’s panel will be chaired by the translator, Frank Wynne. The panel consists of author and academic Merve Emre; writer and lawyer Petina Gappah; TV presenter, writer...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jul 14, 2021 | Gist Corner
The Ivan Juritz Prize, which comes with a cash prize of £1,000 for three categories in Text, Sound, and Visual Arts, is awarded to a postgraduate students throughout Europe either from traditional academic disciplines or from creative courses. Students are invited to...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jul 14, 2021 | Gist Corner
Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo’s second novel, Glory, is going to be published by Viking on March 8, 2022. The book, according to the publishers, is a “blockbuster novel about the fall of an oppressive regime and the chaos of revolution, presented as an uncannily...
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