by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jan 12, 2021 | Gist Corner
The SprinNG Women Authors Prize has announced the semi-finalists for its inaugural prize. The semi-finalists are Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia for The Son of the House, Azizah Idris M for A Sackful of Wishes, and Olaoluwa Oni for...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jan 12, 2021 | Gist Corner
Image by James Murua The Library of Africa and The African Diaspora (LOATAD) and the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA) are launching a 4-week writing residency open to African writers aged 21 or older writing across all genres. The aim of this residency is...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jan 6, 2021 | Gist Corner
PEN America has announced the longlist for the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards. The award will confer over $380,000 to writers and translators from different categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography, essay, science writing, translation, and...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jan 1, 2021 | Gist Corner
On the first day of our writing workshop with Chimamanda Adichie in Awka, she said something about self-doubt which I noted down: know that in writing fiction, self-doubt goes along with creative writing. And you must learn to trust yourself. Chimamanda went on to...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Dec 31, 2020 | Gist Corner
New Year resolutions have become so clichéd it gets a roll-my-eyes kind of response wheneverit is mentioned. Because cliché is where nuance is not. Boring. Yet the narrator in Yiyun li’sWhere Reason Ends, gives us a nuanced perspective on cliché: “What if life could...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Dec 23, 2020 | Gist Corner
Images sourced from Schlosspost and Wikipedia Dear fans of Temi Oh and Suyi Davies,We are excited to announce that your two favourite writers are among the eighteen contributors of the forthcoming anthology, Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda.This anthology features...
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