African writers residing in Africa or elsewhere can submit entries for an award. The Caine Prize for African Writing, a short story award competition, is accepting submissions. The prize encourages ...

As mystery fiction expert Penzler notes in his concise overview of African-American crime writing at the start of this welcome anthology, despite the central element linking the 15 short stories ...

Some of the 20th century’s most celebrated African American writers and artists escaped oppressive racism in America and blossomed in the City of Light to become trailblazers of literary and ...

Chariandy, a literature and creative writing instructor at SFU, is one of the three internationally renowned Canadian authors charged with selecting the stories for the recently released 2023 ...

A journalist and poet, Michel Séligny was considered “the most productive” Creole short story writer during the 19th Century.

It was the stories told by two men and two women that captured my imagination. In 1827, Robert Roberts became one of the first African-American authors with The House Servant's Directory , which ...

But, as The Granta Book of the African Short Story shows, wherever and by whomever they are published, Africa has writers of depth and talent with a multitude of stories as diverse as the ...

Achebe inspired writers in both Africa and elsewhere to tell their stories, most notably African-American Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. Achebe's most famous novel Things Fall Apart was published ...