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The Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize is now open for entries! Our 2026 Chair is Ellah Wakatama, with Santanu Bhattacharya (Fiction), Jen Calleja (Life Writing), and Mona Kareem (Poetry). Read the full announcement and submit your work by 30 June: buff.ly/s4ol0ap

CAS LT Seminar Series 2026 Thinking through Knowledge Production: A View from the South - Sulaiman Adebowale, Amalion, Dakar, Senegal Tuesday 3 March 2026  4:30pm to 6pm african.cam.ac.uk/events/cas-lt-…

Dans le droit fil de l’imagerie coloniale, Charlie Hebdo incapable de confronter les idées d’une femme noire sans la réduire à un corps dansant, exotisé, supposément sauvage. Ce dessin hideux vise à me rappeler ma place dans la hiérarchie raciale et sexiste. (via @catboychevik)

✨ Hem necessitat uns dies de descans per assimilar tot el que hem viscut: +2900 persones inscrites a les nostres xerrades +250 editorials, revistes i fundacions progressistes 🎥 Molt aviat podreu gaudir de totes les xerrades a les nostres xarxes. Ens veiem al READ 2026! 💙

What are the judges of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize looking for? And what could you get for winning? Read answers to five frequently asked questions about the #CWprize. Entries close on 1 November. Visit our website to read more FAQs, and enter your story 👇 commonwealthfoundation.com/short-story-pr…

International convention of books and ideas, 17-19 September @Barcelona @readconvention

📣 English: From 17 to 19 September, READ convention in Barcelona will host over 200 radical publishers and magazines to explore strategies for cultural resistance in the face of capitalism’s reactionary turn. ROAPE will be attending. Full program at read.barcelona

“The Igbo people say, If you want to see it well, you must not stand in one place.” —Chinua Achebe buff.ly/E5CLMJT

"the novel as a genre tends toward excess. ... proliferation, the plot develops like a cancer. If the writer follows a novel’s every lead, it becomes a jungle. The ambition to tell the whole story is inherent in the genre... there comes a moment when you have to kill the story"

We're deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o at the age 87. His words shaped and reshaped our grasp of African resistance and decolonisation under colonialism and the postcolonial era. Rest in power. #NgugiWaThiongo buff.ly/08Dt8tC

🕊️ Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o est décédé ce 28 mai 2025, à l’âge de 87 ans. Monument de la littérature africaine, il a consacré sa vie à la décolonisation des esprits et à la défense des langues africaines. Rest in power #NgugiWaThiongo #LittératureAfricaine #Hommage #Afrolivresque

“Un coup de patte dans une fourmilière...” du Dr Laurent Tewendé Ouédraogo...@Artistebf1 @Universite_JKZ artistesbf.org/un-coup-de-pat…

Burkina Faso : Une plongée géographique au cœur des transformations agricoles et foncières...@Universite_JKZ @Amalion burkina24.com/2025/05/24/bur…

Un coup de patte dans une fourmilière: Mutations foncières, agricoles et restructuration paysanne en pays Nuna au Burkina Faso amalion.net/catalogue/un-c…

M&G Friday | Koyo Kouoh was here. Get your copy of this week's M&G and subscribe at mg.co.za/subscribe-to-m… …for more!

Amalion au @sielmaroc

Guest Post:  Trying to Write a Paper with LLM Assistance scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/11/gue… via @scholarlykitchn

@scholarlykitchn reported an experiment with LLMs: Claude, ChatGPT, & Google Gemini! 🧠✨ Analyzed their rewrites of a 7-paragraph article focusing on punctuation & structure. Results varied widely, and so did the time spent: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/11/gue…

“How can a body withstand this? / Then you hold life like a face / between your palms” — Ellen Bass

who was it who taught you to want what will not feed you —Monica Youn poets.org/poem/parable-m…