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(CLOSED) African Writer Magazine Special Issue: Catharsis

The Anbucraft Revolution in Art and Literature

Parleying with NLNG on Nigeria Prize for Literature

Chika Unigwe on the African Writers Festival

(CLOSED) Nigerian Writers Series 2016: Call for Submissions

(CLOSED) Call for Entries: Ebedi Review – Issue 2

Okai-Davies Wins Alumni Excellence Award in Australia

(CLOSED) Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2016 Open

(CLOSED) Voices- An Anthology of Contemporary Art and Literature

David Ishaya Osu and Halima Aliyu Read at the Hilltop Arts Centre

(CLOSED) Call For Entries: ANA Literary Prizes 2015

(CLOSED) 2014 Morland Writing Scholarships

Okey Ndibe’s Foreign Gods, Inc. Gets the New York Times Treatment

Photos from Okey Ndibe’s Franklin Park Book Reading

Introducing Mukoma Wa Ngugi’s ‘Nairobi Heat’

Nigeria’s Tope Folarin wins 2013 Caine writing prize

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