This is super! Do read friends.

We’re thrilled to present author Helon Habila Helon Habila with the Lifetime Achievement Award at our Opening Ceremony on May 2, 2024!!
Join us in celebrating an outstanding Nigerian author whose exceptional works have contributed significantly to Literature globally.

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“There is no outside. This is the wisdom of Zen Buddhism and mycology and geological time and Indigenous traditions the world over: there is no outside. The tiny cracks in the skin of my hands are red-grimed with Sunita’s blood.”
—Pete Kasey

Not long ago you could see clearly how the nasty and horrible people weren't working on themselves etc. Now all the horrible, self-centered, responsibility-evading people have therapists and coaches and trainers. And they proudly talk about their therapists while being horrible.

Glad to announce that I have a poem published in the Michigan Quarterly Review Online Folio.

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So proud of this issue. The stories, essays, and poems featured here are wrenching and powerful. They mended me.

So, so proud of this.

Please read and share, friends.❤️

so pleased to share i have work featured in the Grief Issue of Isele Magazine. work informed by the grief of the passing of a family member, a sweet romantic ending and a world that is so far from what many deserve.
iselemagazine.com/2024/04/30/art…

Very, very happy to share that my essay ‘Sunita’ won the Porter House Review nonfiction Editor’s Prize, judged by ahem ahem Elisa Gabbert (!!) and is now up for you to read:

porterhousereview.org/articles/sunit…

consider donating to help support the brilliant Samuel Samba to attend their MFA !!!❤️‍🔥📢 go fund me here: gofundme.com/f/support-samu…

The Commonwealth Short Story Prize, administered by the Commonwealth Foundation, is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction from any of the Commonwealth’s 56 Member States.

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With a book like Tremor, form is as important as content, not only because it shows how to access the ideas of the narrative, but because it deepens the understanding of those ideas.

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The winner of the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction is Nigerian writer Ani Kayode Somtochukwu! 🎉 His debut novel, AND THEN HE SANG A LULLABY (Roxane Gay Books Grove Atlantic), was published on June 6, 2023. Congratulations!

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Super proud to share that my personal essay has been published on Lolwe🥹 I'm grateful to Troy Onyango and the editorial team of Lolwe for choosing this essay and taking care of it. It means the world to me.

You can read it here:
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🔊KABAFEST24 EVENT🔊

Enjoy an illuminating Book Chat with author Helon Habila @helonhabila as he unravels the intricate layers of his acclaimed novel, Travellers. Host Hadiza El-Rufai Hadiza Isma El-Rufai invites you on a journey through themes of identity, connection, and the universal

Our April edition is out now!

Featuring: fiction by Adaora Raji, poetry by Linda Masilela, nonfiction by Rigwell Addison Asiedu, drama by Avery Katumba-Nakabaale, and photography by John Atta.
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“My dream has always been to teach others my language through music, the same way I have learnt other languages.”

In an exclusive interview with Frank Njugi , BOWMAN AREMWAKI speaks on his debut EP, the state of East African music, and more ⬇️
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Hi!

We're excited to unveil Konya Shamsrumi as our first partner for the Kano International Poetry Festival.

To partner, support or collaborate in bringing this festival to life, send us a DM!

Still plenty of time to send your amazing poems to the BPJ! The Adrienne Rich Award provides a $1,500 prize for a single poem, and all submissions are considered for publication.
As always, we offer a fee-free option if the reading fee presents a hardship.
bpj.org/submit/rich-aw…

Dear Masobe readers, we have some updates for you…

These are the revised dates for forthcoming releases in May 2024:

1. Ghostroots by 'P. - 15th May

2. Everything is not Enough by Lọlá Ákínmádé - 20th May

3. After the End by Olukorede S. Yishau - 23rd May