Excerpt: And Suddenly the Flowers Withered and Other Stories by João Melo

Splendor and Frustration At the age of eighteen, Dombaxi decided to abandon his studies and join…

Submit Boundary-Breaking Work to Lolwe Magazine Issue 8 | Deadline: August 31

Lolwe is accepting submissions for its Issue 8 throughout the month of August 2023. The issue…

The Cover for Nnedi Okorafor’s Like Thunder is Electrifying!

The cover for Africanfuturist author Nnedi Okorafor’s Like Thunder is one of the most electrifying covers we have…

Canongate Announces Highly Anticipated Memoir by Zimbabwean Author Peter Godwin

Zimbabwean author Peter Godwin has a new family memoir coming out in fall 2024 titled Exit Wounds.…

The 2023 Kweli International Literary Festival Inaugural Day Was a Huge Success! | PHOTOS

The 2023 Kweli International Literary Festival launched on Saturday, July 15 with a day-long inaugural program…

Submit African Ghost Stories to New Flame Tree Fiction Anthology | Deadline: August 27

Submissions are now open for Flame Tree Fiction’s new African Ghost Short Stories series, a collaboration…

Adventurous Boy | Yahuza Usman

It was a fresh July night when birds turned to their nests, ants to their anthills,…

A Tale of Two Chickens | Onyinyechi Ndukaire | Fiction

  I scrape the dirt from under my claws. The light that shines in this room…

Railyard Sermon Shoots Silence up the Veins | Kushal Poddar

The evening sun pushes down a few headless coaches and some bodiless engines and holds them…

Nigerian Writer Wana Udobang Slays in Her New Headshots!

Nigerian writer and journalist Wana Udobang, fondly known as Wana Wana, recently posted her new headshots…