Category: Lit Chatters
Prisms, Itanile Calls African Writers for Her 2022 Publications
With every year that passes storytelling for the African Spirit has found inspiration in the many...
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NEW CỌ́N-SCÌÒ MAGAZINE RELEASE: ‘REGENERATION’ IS OUT
Regeneration is the second issue of CONSCIO MAGAZINE published by Authorpedia in May 2021. Kukogho...
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Itanile Workshops: How We Collaborate for the Future of African Stories, Today!
One of the biggest gullies within the African literary community is the need for platforms, not...
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HOLIDAY NOTE: TOP 2020 TRENDS IN THE AFRICAN LITERARY SPACE
This note comes in a two-part effort to share what 2020 has been for us as an African literary...
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On Publishing and Racism; How Hashtag Publishing Paid Me Revealed Huge Pay Gaps
A social media campaign tagged #PublishingPaidMe was created on June 6, 2020 by urban fantasy...
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AFRICAN LITERARY MAGAZINES: What’s New & Different about Growing Platforms?
Earlier in the year, I called a meeting with the cfwriterz team and told them we are not going to...
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Brittle Paper Deputy Editor’s Report on the Hadiza & Bello El-Rufia Devolves further, African Literature Braces for Impact
The announcement of the post removal, Otosirieze’s statement and the backlash from the largely Nigerian community has left many confused and unsure.
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COVID-19: Freelance Writers, Productivity, and Social Distancing
Freelance writing could be a beautiful experience if all you had to do was worry about getting paying clients. With the global pandemic threatening your clients
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Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other Longlisted for the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Bernardine Evaristo’s novel, Girl, Woman, Other, a book hailed as “exuberant,” “inventive,”...
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The Dec Literary Prize, 2019 Was Cancelled, Not the Platform. – Founder, Damilola Jonathan Oladeji
One thing cfwriterz must publicly acknowledge that we failed at is the December cfwriterz magazine. We had to cancel the December prize.
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The 2019 Brittle Paper Awards: Announcing The 5 Shortlists
We are excited to announce The 5 Shortlists for the 2019 Brittle Paper Awards. Launched in 2017 to mark their seventh anniversary
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Deadline Extension & Introducing the Judges for the Dec. 2019 Collins Elesiro Prize
We are pleased to announce the extended deadline for submissions for the December Magazine issue, with the theme, “Dawsk.” All submissions now end on the 5th of November, 2019.
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