Kwame Dawes and Boris Boubacar Diop on the Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2022
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,...
Short Story Day Africa Prize Winners Announced
Short Story Day Africa Prize recognizes the best short story submitted for its themed anthology. The prize is worth $1,100. The 2021 anthology is themed “Disruption.” Here are the winners for this year’s prize : Kenyan Idza Luhumyo for “Five Years Next Sunday” (Winner...
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Afreecan Read (AR) is an organization that promotes an African literary culture and makes available online the rich contribution that African writers make to the world. Founded in 2016, it aims to bring out the varieties of literatures in Africa and take to parts and corners of the continent and the world. Rich with a variety of styles and diverse contexts from all generations of writers and African cultures, Afreecan Reads promotes a culture of reading and writing and also create an atmosphere where writers and thinkers can engage in nuanced analysis of Africa-related matters through the literary arts..
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Much as we strongly encourage submissions, we would not publish entries that do not agree with our ethics or ideology. We are a team that wants the human spirit to thrive, we celebrate diversity. Therefore, forms of art that undermine people based on skin color or gender or sexual orientation or religious affiliation will not be published on our platform.
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AR is a nonprofit organization; our magazine is not yielding any financial benefits. Therefore, even though we would have loved to, we are not able to pay our beloved writers and poets for now. In the meantime, an online presence of your piece and dissemination on all our social media platforms is the farthest we can go in appreciating the good work that you do.
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We publish prose (short-stories and creative non-fiction) Plays and Poems. We also publish reviews and literary essays. AR creates awareness about African books especially the newest ones and the oldest ones which have been forgotten. We publish blurbs and literary reviews that promote all genres of literature including drama and literature-laced philosophical books.
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