JAY Lit https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Call for Submissions: Writers Space Africa Homepage Call for Submissions: 2026 Unserious Collective Fellowship Awele Creative Trust Announces 2025 ACT Shortlist #JayLitSpotlightSeries: Chiwenite Onyekwelu Call for Entries: The Nigeria Prize for Literature 2026 Announcing The 2025 JAY Lit Awards—Judges, Shortlists & Longlists Copper Monstera Announces The Launch Of Its Upcoming Anthology Meet the Longlist: 2026 Afritondo Short Story Prize Abu Bakr Sadiq Makes Pollard Poetry Prize 2026 Shortlist Masobe Books Acquires Nigerian Rights for Five Eugen Bacon Afro-Irreal Titles Call for Entries: 2027 Joe Ushie Poetry Prize Opens Call for Submissions: The Alhaji Arole Agarawu African Poetry Prize OlongoAfrica Presents Volume 2 of Multi-Lingua Anthology  Poda-Poda Stories Opens Submissions for ‘Omission’ Issue, Deadline March 30 Nnedi Okorafor, Wole Talabi, Somto Ihezue Among 2026 Nebula Awards Finalists Masobe Launches an App for Ebook Reading  Call for Submissions: “Her Voice Beyond the Camp” Women & Girls Poetry Anthology Opens Cassava Republic Press Champions “The Mercy Step” After 50 Publisher Rejections Waxwing Literary Journal to Host Virtual Event with Frances Ogamba, Mubanga Kalimamukwento, and Chika Unigwe Chidera Udochukwu-Nduka Wins 2025 Iskanchi Magazine Prize for Short Story “User Not Found” Moremi Review to Host 2026 International Women’s Day Reading Featuring African Women Poets Cover Reveal: Eugen Bacon’s Afro-irrealist “Black Dingo” Words-Empire Magazine Opens Call for Submission Call for Submissions: Moveee Culture Narratives Awuor Ouma Wins 2026 Cave Canem Prize for “Blue Hands, Brown Skin” Chukwuebuka Ibeh to Host Enugu Literary Masterclass Yarnz Magazine Reveals Cover for its First Issue Quramo Writers’ Prize 2026 Opens for Submissions Crumpled Pieces of a Mother and Her Son Talescapes Launches Mosaic Novel Project Across Five African Regions in Collaboration with JAY Lit Ernest O. Jésùyẹmí to Feature in March Edition of Poetversation Ajja and the Children of Nature Nnedi Okorafor Wins the NAACP Image Award for “Death of the Author” PAWA Opens Submissions for 2026 Young African Writers’ Poetry Competition Layers of Avarice: A Review of Hussani Abdulrahim’s Gold-Plated Boy Masobe Books to Publish Echezonachukwu Nduka’s Third Poetry Collection, “Jazz Negotiations”, in March 2026 Sundress Publications Announces the Release of “Quantum Entanglements with Notes on Loss” by Abdulrazaq Salihu The Professor Moussa Traoré Poetry Prize Opens for Submissions Call for Entries: The Kuchalo Song and Poetry Competition Celebrating the 2025 Rajat Neogy Editorial Fellowship Chapbooks Tampered Press Invites Submissions for Its Ninth Issue Tsitsi Dangarembga, Honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award at Sharjah Festival of African Literature Wole Talabi’s “The Fist of Memory” Set for October 2026 Release from DAW Books/Gollancz A Review of Mohammed Babajide Mohammed’s Balaqh’ees and Other Stories Thirty Poems Make the Longlist for the Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize 2025 The Caine Prize for African Writing Announces 2026 Judges Panel Eight African Voices Nominated for Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2026 Cover Reveal: “A Museum of Unfinished Men” [Featured Post] Analogy In Sensing The Self