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December 1, 2014
2014 Maskew Miller Longman Literature Awards Winners Announced
South Africa’s Maskew Miller Longman Awards have announced their 2014 winners: playwrights Nekhavhambe Khalirendwe, Madoda Mlokoti, Phillip Mothupi, and Cecilia du Toit; novelist and playwright Conny Masocha Lubisi who has written a number of Xitsonga serials for radio; novelist Nakanjani Sibiya; and former school principal and author of English textbook Doorways Charmaine Kendal. According to... Read more.
Mahsuda Snaith Wins 2014 Bristol Short Story Prize
Leicester, England-based writer Mahsuda Snaith has earned the 2014 Bristol Short Story Prize for her entry The Art of Flood Survival. She also won the SI Leeds Literary Prize 2014 and was shortlisted for the 2013 MSLEXIA Novel Writing Competition. The Bristol award comes with a £1,000 cash prize and a £150 gift card to Waterstones... Read more.
Rest in Peace, Allan Kornblum
From David L. Ulin’s piece in the LA Times: To understand the significance of Kornblum’s work at Toothpaste Press and Coffee House, we have to remember what the American publishing landscape looked like then. Largely homogenous, based in New York and bound by its own peculiar hierarchies, it was an exclusionary business for those who... Read more.
31 Finalists in Contention for 2014 Humanitas Prize for TV & Film Writers
Oscar winner John Ridley and the writers behind the finale of TV series How I Met Your Mother were named finalists for the 40th Annual Humanitas Prize. Established to honor scribes behind television and film content that goes beyond “the guy gets the girl, the bad guy gets it in the end, and if you loved... Read more.
2014 Miles Morland Writing Scholarship Winners Announced
South African journalist Simone Haysom, Egyptian writer Ahmed Khalifa, Kenya’s Ndinda Kioko, and Yewande Omotoso (Nigeria-Barbados) have won 2014 Miles Morland Writing Scholarship which comes with an ₤18,000 grant. Judges Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, Nadifa Mohamed, and Olufemi Terry whittled down 445 entries to a longlist of 123, then a shortlist of 22, and finally the... Read more.
November 29, 2014
No One Gets to Tell Me I'm Not An African Writer
In the past two years, African literature has undergone a renaissance of attention. Articles in the New York Times and The Guardian have noted the growing number of African literary stars; new awards like the Etisalat Prize and the Miles Morland Writing Scholarship have cropped up to fete and foster talent, and blogs like James Murua’s Literature Blog, Brittle Paper, The Ehanom Review, Mary Okeke... Read more.
November 24, 2014
November 17, 2014
Author Renee Watson Has Some Encouragement for NaNoWriMo Writers
The halfway mark for National Novel Writing Month has just passed. If you’re participating, depending on where you are in the process, author Renee Watson — she’s written two picture books Harlem’s Little Blackbird and A Place Where Hurricanes Happen, a middle grade novel called What Momma Left Me, and has a YA novel called... Read more.
Joshua Ferris Won the Dylan Thomas Prize
Joshua Ferris’ To Rise Again at a Decent Hour has won the 2014 Dylan Thomas Prize, worth £30,000, beating out a shortlist that included 2013 Man Booker winner Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries, Baileys Prizewinner Eimear McBride’s A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing, Kseniya Melnik‘s debut Snow in May, Kei Miller‘s The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to... Read more.
Ali Smith Won the Goldsmiths Prize
For her novel How to Be Both, Ali Smith has won the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize. Judges Geoff Dyer, Tom Gatti, Kirsty Gunn, and Francis Spufford selected the title which had been in contention with Outline by Rachel Cusk, The Absent Therapist by Will Eaves, J by Howard Jacobson The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth, and In The Light of What... Read more.
