Cassava Republic Press is thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity for African women living on the continent who are passionate about editing non-fiction. This September, they will be hosting a 10-day residential editorial workshop designed specifically for African women to increase Black women’s participation in the nonfiction space.
The workshop will conclude in the editing of essays for the anthology developed by writers from the African Women’s Non-Fiction Writing Workshop themed Taboo. The collection will explore taboos, practices that are forbidden, restricted, or controversial—shaped by social and religious customs and varying across cultures.
Cassava Republic Press is a steering African book publishing company established in Nigeria in 2006 and headed by Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, with a focus on affordability, the need to find and develop local talent, and to publish African writers too often celebrated only in Europe and America. Cassava Republic’s stated mission is “to change the way we all think about African writing, to build a new body of African writing that links writers across different times and spaces. The publishing house is considered to be “at the center of a thriving literary scene” that has seen Nigerian writers in particular, as well as writers from elsewhere on the African continent, having considerable success both at home and internationally.
All applications must be submitted with a CV and cover letter. The cover letter should include your editorial philosophy, what you believe the role of an editor is and how you approach a piece of writing as an editor. To submit your application, kindly click here.
Applications close at 23:59 GMT on July 10th.
Best of luck to all applicants!
Bakare Oluwatobiloba
I write to educate, motivate and define history with literature. Just being me!
