Brittle Paper Announces Shortlists for its 2018 Award

October 04, 2018 The Words Finesse 0 Comments



Brittle Paper, one of the online literary platforms promoting African literature has announced the shortlists for their 2018 literary award. The announcement was made in a statement released today on their website.

"We are delighted to announce the shortlists for the 2018 Brittle Paper Awards. Begun in 2017 to mark our seventh anniversary, the Awards aim to recognize the finest, original pieces of writing by Africans published online. The $1,100 cash prize is split across five categories: the Brittle Paper Award for Fiction ($200), the Brittle Paper Award for Poetry ($200), the Brittle Paper Award for Creative Nonfiction ($200), the Brittle Paper Award for Essays & Think Pieces ($200), and the Brittle Paper Anniversary Award ($300) for writing published on our blog.


"Forty-eight pieces were shortlisted last year, and the winners: South African memoirist Sisonke Msimang for Essays & Think Pieces, Liberian novelist Hawa Jande Golakai for Creative Nonfiction, Nigerian poet JK Anowe for Poetry, South African writer Megan Ross for Fiction, and Nigerian poet Chibuihe Obi for the Anniversary Award.


The Award is to celebrate not only of writers and their works but also of magazines, journals, and websites, and their editors and publishers who have set up open spaces where true literary diversity can thrive and where their works speak for themselves.

Below are the shortlists:


THE BRITTLE PAPER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION ($200)
On Meeting Toni Morrison,” by Sarah Ladipo Manyika (Nigeria), in Transition
The Miseducation of Gratitude,” by Sibongile Fisher (South Africa), in Selves: An Afro Anthology of Creative Nonfiction, published online in Enkare Review
How to Gossip About African Writing in Geneva,” by Oris Aigbokhaevbolo (Nigeria), in Catapult
Chapter Thirty-Three,” by Binyavanga Wainaina (Kenya), in Brittle Paper
A House for Mr Soyinka,” by Kola Tubosun (Nigeria), in Popula
Home Means Nothing to Me,” by Tinashe Mushakavanhu in collaboration with Nontsikelelo Mutiti and Simba Mafundikwa (Zimbabwe), in Chimurenga

THE BRITTLE PAPER AWARD FOR ESSAYS & THINK PIECES ($200)
History Through the Body or Rights of Desire, Rights of Conquest,” by Panashe Chigumadzi (Zimbabwe), in The Johannesburg Review of Books
Verse Africa: The Malleable Poetics of Some Contemporary African Poets,” by Matthew Shenoda (Egypt), in World Literature Today
A Stranger in ‘the Village," by Bongani Madondo (South Africa), in The Johannesburg Review of Books
Preserving and Writing History,” Ayesha Harruna Attah (Ghana) in Conversation with Gaamangwe Joy Mogami (Botswana), in Africa in Dialogue
The Colonizer’s Archive Is a Crooked Finger,” by Emmanuel Iduma (Nigeria), in Catapult
James Baldwin in Rhodesia,” by Percy Zvomuya (Zimbabwe), in The Johannesburg Review of Books

THE BRITTLE PAPER AWARD FOR POETRY ($200)
A List of Things I Do Not Tell My Mother,” by Sarah Lubala (South Africa & Congo), in Apogee Journal
A Field, any Field,” by Itiola Jones (Nigeria), in The Offing
Origin Myths,” by Megan Ross (South Africa), in The Single Story Foundation Journal
On the Isle of Lesbos,” by Tsitsi Jaji (Zimbabwe), in Harvard Review
I Like to Think I’d Yet Manage to Weave Words into Poems,” by Chisom Okafor (Nigeria), in Expound
Summer Night Spent Cosplaying Ashanti & Ja Rule Or Something Else Resembling Happiness,” by Momtaza Mehri (Somalia & UK), in Frontier Poetry

THE BRITTLE PAPER AWARD FOR FICTION ($200)
Moon Secrets,” by Lauri Kubuitsile (Botswana), in The Single Story Foundation Journal
The Man at the Bridge,” by Kiprop Kimutai (Kenya), in As You Like It, republished in The Johannesburg Review of Books
Involution,” by Stacy Hardy (South Africa), in Migrations: New Short Fiction from Africa
Our Husband Grief,” by Christine Odeph (Kenya), in Migrations: New Short Fiction from Africa (as “My Sister’s Husband”), republished in Brittle Paper
All Our Lives,” by Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor (Nigeria), in ID: New Short Fiction from Africa, republished in The Johannesburg Review of Books

THE BRITTLE PAPER ANNIVERSARY AWARD ($300)
An African in London and Other Reflections on African Literatures,” by Richard Oduor Oduku (Kenya), Memoir
Why I No Longer Use the Term ‘Game’ for Bushmeat,” by Chika Unigwe (Nigeria), Think Piece, first posted on Facebook
Bantu’s Swahili, or How to Steal a Language from Africa,” by Kamau Muiga (Kenya), Essay
The Nervous Conditions of the Mother Tongue,” by Mapule Mohulatsi (South Africa), Essay, first published in Selves: An Afro Anthology of Creative Nonfiction
On Postcolonial Theory,” by Shailja Patel (Kenya), Tweets
Facebook Writers and Other Trivia,” by Alaaka Tobi (Nigeria), Essay
Jambula Tree,” by Lillian Aujo (Uganda), Poetry
For What Are Butterflies without Their Wings,” by Troy Onyango (Kenya), Fiction

According to the Editor, Dr. Ainehi Edoro Glines and Deputy Editor, Otosirieze, the winners will be announced on Monday, November 19, 2018.

For more details, visit their website HERE.

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