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“Poetry Heals Me,” says Ethel Kabwato (Zimbabwe)
Ethel Kagwato Poetry has an indescribable power to do different things to different people. To the Zimbabwean poet and writer Ethel Kabwato, poetry is therapeutic and allows her to be happy, sad, or...
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New Fiction by Rumbi Munochiveyi (Zimbabwe)
Photo Credit: MunyaMunochiveyi We have just published a new short story, “A Certain Time Ago”, by Rumbi Munochiveyi, a Zimbabwean writer who is currently completing her B.S. in Mathematics at the...
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Chinyanganya Reviews ‘A Casualty of Power’ by Mukuka Chipanta
A Casualty of Power (Weaver Press, 2016) reads something like a thriller, and it is as difficult to put down, while simultaneously exploring some of the fundamental issues bedevilling post-colonial...
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Atemnkeng Reviews Imbolo Mbue’s “Behold the Dreamers”
From Limbe to New York, a New Search for the American Dream. Limbe is a coastal resort city by the black, sandy beaches of the Atlantic in the Anglophone South West Region of Cameroon. It is also...
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GRAYWOLF ANNOUNCES AFRICA FIRST-NOVEL PRIZE
September 18, 2017— Graywolf Press has announced the Graywolf Press Africa Prize, to be awarded for a first novel manuscript by an African author primarily residing in Africa. The prize will be judged...
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New Fiction by Abu Amirah (Kenya)
The fiction section features a new short story by Abu Amirah, who is a Mombasa-based emerging writer and a second-year student of Psychology. He was shortlisted for the Writivism 2016 short story prize...
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New Fiction by Ebele Mogo
Eleven-year-old Veronica died in labour. Her kinsmen said that starting her period earlier than the rest of us made her a woman. Her cervix had insisted otherwise. It’s not as if I was so surprised...
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Haiku by Njeri Marasi
Njeri Marasi is a digital marketer, a storyteller, and a blogger at www.workandrelationships.wordpress.com. Her work has been published in Story Moja. Of herself, Njeri says, “I love observing as life...
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New poems by Chad Norman (Canada)
Chad Norman’s poems have appeared for the past 35 years in literary publications across Canada, as well as a number of other countries around the world. He hosts and organizes RiverWords: Poetry &...
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Writivism@5 Special Anthology features 18 Ugandan writers
In 2012, the Centre for African Cultural Excellence (CACE) based in Kampala, Uganda, launched Writivism – an initiative that identifies, mentors and promotes emerging Africa-based writers, and hosts an...
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Featuring Poems by Uche Ogbuji (Nigeria/USA)
Munyori features poems by Uche Ogbuji, more properly Úchèńnà Ogbújí, who was born in Calabar, Nigeria. He lived in Egypt, England and elsewhere before settling near Boulder, Colorado. A computer...
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New poems by Heather Hutcheson (USA)
We are featuring new poems by Heather Hutcheson, a professor of English in Sacramento, California. She is the founding editor of the Cosumnes River Journal and curator of the ‘Our Life Stories’...
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The Photograph by Mali Kambandu (Zambia)
Mali Kambandu, shortlisted for the 2018 Writivism Fiction Contest, lives in Lusaka, Zambia, with her husband and two children. Mali’s writing influences are Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, but her most...
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Hopes and Dreams by Mbogo Ireri (Kenya)
Mbogo Ireri, shortlisted for the 2018 Writivism short story contest, is 38 years old and was born in Embu, Kenya. He lives in Nairobi with his wife and son (although currently he is away on a short job...
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A River End in an Ocean by Obinna Jones (Nigeria)
Obinna Jones, shortlisted for the 2018 Short Story contest, is a Nigerian, sadly adult, studying Physics at Imo State University, Owerri. Writes, reads and stalks Facebook celebrities. Has a dream of...
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Colin Dodds Publishes New Poetry Anthology
We are happy to announce that one of our writers, Colin Dodds, is publishing a new poetry anthology (Spokes of an Uneven Wheel) with Main Street Rag. We recently featured Colin’s poetry here. About...
View ArticleGraywolf Press Announces Submission Period for the Second Africa Book Prize
Novelist A. Igoni Barrett to Return as Judge MINNESOTA, USA: April 19, 2019—Graywolf Press has announced that the submission period for the second Graywolf Press Africa Prize will run from May 1-31,...
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Maserumo by Resoketswe Manenzhe
Resoketswe Manenzhe, author of “Maserumo”, is a PhD candidate with the chemical engineering department at the University of Cape Town; this, after receiving her master’s degree with distinction....
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Ghana Boy by Frances Ogamba
Frances Ogamba’s stories appear in Afridiaspora and Writivism 2016 Short Story Prize Anthology, Dwartonline and Ynaija websites, and on Enkare review. She is a workshop alumnus of Writivism 2016, Ake...
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Tale by Vuyelwa Maluleke (South Africa)
Vuyelwa Maluleke is a Performance Poet, Scriptwriter and Actor, who holds a Bachelor of Arts in Dramatic Arts from the University of Witwatersrand. She was shortlisted for the Brunel University African...
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