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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New writer Ta-Nehisi Coates will continue the recent re-emergence of Marvel’s African King/superhero. There hadn’t been a Black Panther title published in 10 years when Marvel tapped writer ...

Two short stories in the anthology—“Sophia,” an excerpt from Angela Belcher Epps’s novel Salt in the Sugar Bowl, and “When the Stars Begin to Fall,” by Tracie Fellers—will linger ...

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 ...

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 ...