by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jun 28, 2021 | Gist Corner
Musa Okwonga’s In the End it Was All About Love, and Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Open Water are on the longlist for the 2021 Gordon Burn Prize. The award, in honor of Gordon Burn, an English writer who passed away in 2009, celebrates fiction or non-fiction...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jun 28, 2021 | Gist Corner
Deborah Rogers Foundation (DRF) is currently accepting applications for its 2021 Writers Awards. The £10,000 prize will go to “a first-time prose writer whose submission demonstrates literary talent and who would benefit from financial support to complete...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jun 28, 2021 | Gist Corner
Black Boy Review has launched a new project tagged The Writer’s Money. The project is aimed at curtailing the financial inhibition faced by young writers at the early stage of their career. Here is a note from the team: The project is a fund in vouchers for...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jun 28, 2021 | Gist Corner
Sonuga is the ninth Poet Laureate of Edmonton. Titilope Sonuga will serve a two-year term as Edmonton’s Poet Laureate from July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2023. Sonuga is a poet, playwright and performer. Her poetry are highly heavy on themes of tenderness and...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jun 22, 2021 | Gist Corner
Ten African writers are on the longlist for the James Currey Prize for African Literature. The prize is an annual award for the best-unpublished work of fiction written in English by any writer, set in Africa or on Africans in Africa or in Diaspora. The prize was...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jun 22, 2021 | Gist Corner
The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is worth $50,000. The prize is a biennial award sponsored by the United States’ University of Oklahoma and its international literary publication, World Literature Today. This year’s jury which includes Jennifer Croft,...
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