A chance at an Oxford Poetry Prize.
In a delightful fusion of creativity and style, the Bournemouth Writing Festival teamed up with the Bournemouth-based Mad Hat Company to host a hat-themed writing competition. This event, marking the second edition of...
It has been almost a month since Prof. Ama Ata Aidoo passed on, but the pain of the loss still feels fresh. She died on May 31, 2023 at the age of 81....
Charles Bukowski was a prolific underground writer who used his poetry and prose to depict the depravity of urban life and the downtrodden in American society. A cult hero, Bukowski relied on experience,...
OPEN BOOK FESTIVAL 2022 MAKES SEPTEMBER RETURN TO CAPE TOWN.
The Open Book Festival 2022, after a mini-edition in March, returns to Cape Town, South...
Noviolet Bulawayo, Leila Mottley, and Percival Everett are on the longlist for The Booker Prize for Fiction 2022 announced today, 2022.
The Booker Prize for Fiction, worth £50,000, is a literary prize...
TS Eliot prize announces a ‘shapeshifting’ shortlist
With a record number of entries, half of the ten shortlisted books are debut collections that the judges describe as ‘unflinching in...
Congolese poet Sarah Lubala has recently published her debut poetry collection. It is titled A History of Disappearance and was published by South African publisher Botsotso Publishing this past march. Sarah’s work has been published...
Tolu Oloruntoba and Douglas Kearney were awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize 2022.
The Griffin Poetry Prize is the world’s largest international prize for a first edition single collection of poetry written...
TBR: How are you adapting to the cultural shift?
Nothing much has shifted; just the socio psychographic...