A new conversation in our interview series featuring the artists shortlisted for the 2021 Bank Windhoek Doek! Literary Magazine Literary Awards.💥 The third conversation in the nonfiction category is between category winner Natasha Uys and interviewer sallyhad: africaindialogue.com/2021/11/27/ill…

We are so happy to reveal the cover of our next quarterly publication, The Woman Issue🎉 This project was edited by Lone traveller in a sea of familiar faces, @Chiamakaokikee, மாயா🪷சூர்யா, and Ukamaka Olisakwe; Or, Ngalakwesili. Cover art by the amazing Megan Ross! We can't wait to share the issue with you✨

A new chapter of African Literary Culture begins!

The World Arts Agency notes the rise of African Romantic Fiction. We'd like to see more books in our bookstores and towards our culture of reading in Africa. If you know of any novels or authors in this genre, please let us know, in this thread.❤️‍🔥 alovesotrue.com/african-romanc…

Apply here for the James Currey Writing and Publishing Workshop. jamescurreysociety.co.uk/?fbclid=IwAR1e…

The Alan Paton Will Trust is proud to announce that we've issued Permission to The National Children's Theatre Trust National Children's Theatre for a production based on Paton's work, to the benefit of underprivileged + disadvantaged schools in 2022.

Nommo Awards 2021 winners announced in Washington DC. jamesmurua.com/nommo-awards-2… via James Murua

NEW: 800+ magazines (print & online) that accept fiction – ranked by their number of Twitter followers. With some great new additions like Mslexia ✨ VIDA Room Magazine Luna Luna Magazine Taco Bell Quarterly Tiferet Journal F    I    V   E    :   2    :   O   N E The Daily Drunk Mag and many more! brechtdepoortere.com/rankings

Dryad Press Poets in Profile:🌿FIONA ZERBST Fiona is the author of *In Praise of Hotel Rooms* (Dryad) + 4 previous collections: *Oleander* (Modjaji), *Time and Again* / *the small zone* (Snailpress), *Parting Shots* (Carrefour). 1/3

When in Durban, remember that the sea is not the only pebble on the beach. It takes a library to raise critical thinking in our lives. Summer and the million delights of books. Durban reads!

2022 Literary Magazine Rankings by Clifford Garstang Clifford Garstang + submission strategy tips trishhopkinson.com/2021/12/19/202… via Trish Hopkinson

Black Shadow Man & Taste – Sihle Ntuli lolwe.org/two-poems-sihl…

Mercy Wambui @stacystaces All the #SSDA anthologies are here: shortstorydayafrica.org/books #ID #Migrations #FeastFamineandPotluck #Water #HotelAfrica New Internationalist

Dryad Press Poets in Profile:🌿SIMON VAN SCHALKWYK Simon's debut collection "Transcontinental Delay* was published with Dryad in 2021. He is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of the Witwatersrand + is academic editor: The Johannesburg Review of Books. 1/4

ISSUE 196 of New Contrast is now out. Featuring poetry by Nick Mulgrew, Maya Pillay, Anastasia DiFonzo, Megan Gieske, Sisanda Kubeka and K. Goddard, prose by Kharys Ateh Laue, Ntando Taro Nzuza, David Mann and Stacy Hardy, and art by Balekane Legoabe and Pola Maneli.

Our multi-talented poetry editor Kharys Ateh Laue has a prose piece in the latest issue of New Contrast. Well done, Kharys.

Afrocritik's 20 remarkable African essays of 2021. Click on the link below to see the full list. afrocritik.com/reviews/book-r…

The WAA thanks all for their support, in 2021, for what we're achieving together for African Arts & Culture. To all those who we associated with and partnered in 2022, thank you! We root, we grow, we rise, we are shelter + sustenance - we are together - the start of our forest.

At every sad moment in history when extreme far right opinion steps flagrantly onto the field of ideas it is the duty of those who love humanity, to stand & oppose, hate. @onyeka_nwelue I do that now. Our World Arts Agency - our shared vision - is hereby ended Warren Jeremy Rourke