Halloween has come and gone. The costumes are back in the closet, the party invitations are a memory, and the trick-or-treating candy is probably running low. If you’re feeling the post-Halloween letdown, we’ve got good news: the spooky spirit doesn’t have to end on October 31. There’s no better way
Brittle Paper founder and editor Ainehi Edoro-Glines discussed her first book, Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think, at the Wisconsin Book Festival on Thursday, October 15, in the Lower-Level Program Room at Madison’s Central Library. She was in conversation with Raquel Kennon, and the sessi
Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory, the award-winning documentary about Wole Soyinka’s years at the University of Ìbàdàn, is now available on Amazon Prime Video. It was written, produced, and directed by Nigerian poet, writer, and linguist Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, with cinematography by the legendary filmmak
The Pan African Writers Association (PAWA) will launch the UK chapter of its diaspora arm on Friday, November 27, 2026, at 10:00 am (UK time) at the Society of Authors, 24 Bedford Row, London WC1R 4EH. The launch is organised in association with the International Authors Forum and the Society of Aut
A new literary prize for works co-written with artificial intelligence has launched in France, The Guardian reports. The Prix Pascal de Littérature IA was founded by three tech entrepreneurs, Philippe Rodriguez, Albin Serviant, and Gilles Mentre, who told AFP that they believe it is the first litera
The NAACP has introduced ten new African categories for the 58th NAACP Image Awards, opening its awards to creators across the continent for the first time. In a press statement dated 21 October, the organisation said the categories will recognise outstanding work in motion pictures, television, str
Catalyst Press is calling on African poets to take part in a live Poetry Sit-In on Zoom to close #ReadingAfrica Week 2026. The three-hour event takes place on Saturday, 7 November, from 4:00 to 7:00 PM SAST, which is 3:00 to 6:00 PM in Lagos and 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST. Poets can sign […]
The UK’s Society of Authors (SoA) has withdrawn from the Charter of Ethical AI Use in the Creative Industries, which it helped launch less than two weeks ago, after criticism from its own members. The Bookseller reports that members were emailed on October 21 to thank them for their feedback and to
Wasafiri, the magazine of international contemporary writing, has released Common Interests, a six-part video series hosted by author Yara Rodrigues Fowler. The project asks what the UK’s literary ecosystem could look like if it were organized around writers and readers rather than capital, profits,
Why did I have to share my dress, my food, and my bed with complete strangers? No. Correction. Not strangers. For as long as I could remember, it had always been Papa and me. Mama had travelled, they said, she’d be back soon. Soon stretched into years, and I grew used to it being […]