In the early hours of Sunday, May 17th 2026, I stumbled on a tweet by Nigerian literary critic and essayist, Chimezie Chike, accusing Jamir Nazir, the newly minted 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Pri…

In the early hours of Sunday, May 17th 2026, I stumbled on a tweet by Nigerian literary critic and essayist, Chimezie Chike, accusing Jamir Nazir, the newly minted 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Pri…

Date: Saturday, 04 April 2026 Time: 1PM GMT Duration: 3 hours Class size: 12 max This masterclass will take place online via Zoom and is open to students from anywhere.

Date: Saturday, 04 April 2026 Time: 1PM GMT Duration: 3 hours Class size: 12 max This masterclass will take place online via Zoom and is open to students from anywhere.

Innocent Chizaram Ilo writes on his childhood in southern Nigeria, where the influence of conservative Christianity, intermingled with the traditional practices of the Igbo people, has created a recep...

Innocent Chizaram Ilo’s ‘When a Woman Renounces Motherhood’ is the 2020 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize regional winner from Africa.

Overall winner of the 2021 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize, as well as winner for the region of Asia.

‘When Enebeli Okwara sent his girl out in the world, he did not know what the world did to daughters.’ 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize – regional winner for Africa.

Anger is an energy. A young girl, a slave in the South, is presented with a moment where she can grasp for freedom, for change, for life. She grabs it with both hands, fiercely and intensely, and the ...

“He’s only a little boy, but he’s managed to unsettle her. It has been so very long since she was unsettled.”

Pemi Aguda writes short stories and flash fiction. Her stories have appeared in The Kalahari Review, Black Fox Literary Magazine, Prufrock Magazine, The Wrong Quarterly and the TNC anthology ‘These…

‘I have heard all of the stories about girls like me, and I am unafraid to make more of them.’ Carmen Maria Machado’s ‘The Husband Stitch’.

Over and again in America, we've learned that the frightening changes that initially seemed to be permanent turned out to be temporary.

“His eyes travelled up my bare leg as it emerged from the sleep-twisted sheets. I pretended to be asleep.”

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Disability rights advocates said kids like Ty should not be getting arrested under Tennessee’s school threats law.

Handala. The Olive, the Storm, and the Sea by Sonia Sulaiman   The little boy raised an umbrella over his head and looked out over the sea. His clothes were tattered, loose stitches of what had been a...

Instead, Damola Adamolekun is going back to what made the company successful in the first place.