Chiziterem Chijioke is the 2023 winner of the Quramo Writer’s Prize and the second female awarded since its inception in 2017. She is a Creative Director, Digital Marketer and Storyteller with a B.Sc in Mass Communication from Ajayi Crowther University. She is an experienced writer with a history of working in the writing and editing […]

Ibrahim Babatunde Ibrahim would be a familiar name if you were seated– physically or virtually–among the crowds that graced the Eko Hotel hall for the Quramo Festival in 2022, where he was announced the winner.  He has also been a runner-up for the Jessica George Bursary (2023), the Goge Africa Writing Contest (2020), and Ibua […]

  Announcing Ubwali Literary Magazine––a literary magazine from Zambia. The inaugural issue, launched on www.ubwali.com on Saturday, February 24th, 2024, with featured work from: Cornelius Mwanza, Emily Pensulo, Gerry Sikazwe, Jacob Mhango, Mali Kambandu, Mukandi Siame, Namukolo Siyumbwa, Suwilanji Namusamba and Theresa Sylvester.  “Zambian storytelling, like our cooking, is very straightforward: each dish has a list […]

Narrative Landscape Press submission window is currently open for fiction manuscripts. Narrative Landscape Press Limited was founded in 2016 by Anwuli Ojogwu and Eghosa Imasuen. The dream of the founders was to create a firm that could distil the essence of the publishing process and provide a service to other publishing houses and self-publishing authors […]

SprinNG is currently calling for applications for 2024 from Nigerian and Ghanaian writers with great potential and willingness to learn.   SprinNG is a Literary Movement and Society founded in 2016  with the aim of promotion, revitalization, and improvement specifically for new Nigerian generations in Writing and Literature. Through their website, they publish reviews, poems, […]

In 2021, on the Quramo Festival stage, three judges announced a then-medical student story as the winner of the Writer’s Prize.  Currently, Akintomiwa Akinnimi is a graduate of Medicine and Surgery from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State. He has been writing all his life, and his writing mostly consists of think pieces and other […]

Mubanga Kalimamukwento has been announced as the 2024 Drue Heinz Literature Prize winner. Kalimamukwento is an award-winning storyteller, essayist and lawyer. She is the first Zambian to win the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. She is also the first Zambian to win the Dinaane Debut Fiction Award with her first novel, The Mourning Bird. Kalimamukwento has […]

Paul Engle Prize is accepting nominations for people who have contributed to the betterment of the world through the literary arts. The Paul Engle Prize is an annual literary prize organized by the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature to honor an individual who, like Paul Engle, represents a pioneering spirit in the world of […]

Lolwe Magazine is now accepting poetry, prose, essay and photography submissions for their 9th Issue. Lolwe is a Pan-African literary magazine that publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography, and literary criticism. Founded in January 2020 by Troy Onyango, the magazine has a focus on amplifying the work by writers, poets and visual artists from Africa, Caribbean and […]

Certified Forgotten currently calls for horror film journalists and writers generally interested in writing about underseen horror films.  Certified Forgotten is a digital publication focusing solely on the movies that have fallen through the cracks. Those festival standout movies– and direct-to-video cult classics – deserving of a second look. They publish on their website and […]