What inspires you to write? First, there’s the curse of writer/storyteller which is almost like an addiction – it’s that insatiable craving to tell a story or else I’d go crazy. Then, there’s the frustration Read More
Mar 132013
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Mar 122013
SYNW DISTRIBUTES E-BOOKS TO SCHOOLS IN OSUN AND OYO STATES It is not new that secondary school students are no more consulting books on shelves anymore, instead they spend 80% of their time pinging on Read More
Feb 262013
Naija Stories is currently the leading website for young Nigerian writers and those who love to read and engage with authentic Nigerian writing and those who produce it. Naija Stories was launched in March 2010 Read More
Feb 242013
Africa Creates: The Radio Show Africa Creates is an online radio show that will provide a platform for African writers, musicians and filmmakers to be heard and promoted both locally and internationally. Every week, the Read More
Feb 212013
Deadline: 29 March 2013 Businessday newspaper is calling all aspiring writers to participate in its writing competition on the topic “How Information Technology Affects your Education”. The competition opened on February 1st and qualifying entries Read More
Feb 092013
The African Street Writer Presents KISS A BOOK A campaign for the love of books Take a creative snapshot while kissing that book you love and share on our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/theafricanstreetwriter To get a Read More
Feb 062013
After a very successful run in 2012, iRead is back and better! iRead, is a platform that brings aspiring writers and book lovers together with established voices in an environment where books, writers and the Read More
Feb 052013
Teju Cole – Writer, art historian, street photographer, Teju Cole (his real name is Obayemi Babajide Adetokunbo Onafuwa) was born in the United States to Nigerian parents, raised in Nigeria, and moved back to the Read More
Jan 312013
The Society of Young Nigerian Writers in collaboration with Ibadan Book Club will be giving out DVDs that contains 250 literary books, mainly novels, collection of plays, anthologies by popular, notable and renowned dead authors Read More
Jan 242013
Pulpfaction Book Club presents the 19th edition of Book n’ Guage, a monthly literary event for lovers of literature and the arts at large. The featured writer for this month’s edition is Chika Unigwe, winner Read More
Jan 182013
For the first time ever, Social Media Week will take place in Africa. From 18 to 22 February 2013 Social Media Week will hold in Lagos bringing together thought leaders, creatives, entrepreneurs and everyday citizens Read More
Jan 102013
SOCIETY OF YOUNG NIGERIAN WRITERS Presents 2ND Edition Of FAGUNWA NIGHT (A Celebration of Life and Works of D.O. Fagunwa – Author of Adiitu Olodumare, Igbo Olodumare, Ireke Onibudo, Irinkerindo Ninu Igbo Elegbeje, Ogboju Ode Ninu Read More
Jan 072013
With the grant of financial support by the Governor of Niger State, Chief Servant Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, the Association of Nigerian Authors hereby announces the establishment of the Nigerian Writers Series (NWS). A Read More
Jan 032013
I met Tofarati as a spoken word artiste and his performance was very impressive. When we got talking, he told me he was also a writer which at the time did not feel so strange Read More
Dec 242012
It’s a romantic night. You know; that kind of night. The kind of night described in a million-and-one Danielle Steel novels; a night on the streets of Paris…strolling along the banks of Read More
Nov 262012
The maiden edition of the Sir Eriata Oribabor Poetry Prize is here and the Words Rhymes and Rhythm platform has been selected to host it. In line with this, submissions are solicited from poets all Read More
Nov 172012
The awards were announced at the Entry Point hotel in Uyo on the 10th of November, 2012 during the ANA Annual General Meeting. For the first time in a long while, the winners for the Read More
Nov 022012
The time we write in demands that we sidestep the general and enter into the specific, an art and act that is at once inquisitive as it is ambitious. The challenge we face is not Read More
Nov 022012
1 ANA/Mazariyya Prize for Teen Authors (Poetry) All titles disqualified because they do not meet requirements. 2 ANA/ NECO Prize for Teen Authors (Short Story) (a) Behind the Dust by Nuella Ononye Read More
Nov 022012
The festival would hold from the 16th – 18th November 2012 at Freedom Park, Broad Street, Lagos Island with a pre-event Publishers’ Forum and Cocktail holding on the 15th. A theme has also been announced Read More