Emily Pensulo retweeted
The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025 is now open!
We are delighted to announce that @GurnaikJohal, Ben Pester and CAA’s Erika Price will be this year’s judges for the prize.
Enter here: thelondonmagazine.org/short-…
@Airtel_Zambia Please look into this. I got a bundle 7.5 Gb bundle, then got a text later saying I had used 60% of my 500MB bundle? Then a few minutes later I had no bundles remaining.
And no, I didn't do any downloads which could have affected data usage.
Emily Pensulo retweeted
🔊 We're thrilled to announce the 2025 Ubwali Hope Prize Shortlist.
✨ Dacious Kasoka
✨ Isaac Kanyinji
✨ Mwanabibi Sikamo
✨ Suwilanji Namusamba
✨ Mwila Agatha Zaza
✨ Mwinji Siame
🏆 Winner gets $500 + publication in Shenandoah Magazine.
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📣 The Ubwali Hope Prize is back!
🏆 $500 + publication in Shenandoah
✍️ Mentorship for 1 runner-up
🌟 NEW: A class with Caine Prize–winner @Onjerika Makena Onjerika for another runner-up
Open to Zambian writers published in Ubwali last year.
Shortlist in June, winner in July.
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The 2025 #CWprize shortlist is here! Meet the 25 writers selected after a record-breaking year.
Five regional winners will be announced on 14 May, before the overall winner is named on 25 June.
Meet the writers and learn more about their stories 👇
commonwealthfoundation.com/s…
ALT Graphic showing photos of the 25 shortlisted Commonwealth Short Story Prize writers.
Emily Pensulo retweeted
the @UbwaliLitMag special issue is almost out. congratulations to all the contributors!
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📣Exciting news!
Oxbelly is pleased to invite worldwide applications for their Fiction Writers Program held at Costa Navarino in historic Messinia, Greece.
Deadline: 22 January
Learn more:🔗
commonwealthfoundation.com/o…
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In this new collection of short African fiction, people seek, find, and lose love; lovers cheat; fathers reconcile with their daughters; revolutions, both personal and national, happen; mothers alienate their sons…
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Merry Christmas everyone. It is time to apply to join us at Costa Navarino for the OXBELLY RETREATS 2025! Come and see great writers wine and dine in the most beautiful place in the world! Past and future guests have and will include Rebecca Makkai, Bill Clegg, Fiammetta Rocco, Imbolo Mbue, Ismael Beah, Jonathan Franzen, amongst others! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
oxbelly.com/fiction-writers-…
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TBR Winter 24 is here. Get it on Amazon everywhere now. thebrusselsreview.com/dritan…
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Celebrity by Emily Pensulo
What does it take to rise from obscurity to fame? This short story is a sharp, unflinching tale of ambition, illusion, and the cost of digital fame. #SocialMediaFame #ZambianWriters #brurev
thebrusselsreview.com/emily-…
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African literature thrives thanks to small, independent presses—and the 2024 AFRICAN SMALL PUBLISHERS CATALOGUE celebrates their work!
Featuring 60+ publishers across the continent, the catalogue is a hub for connection, collaboration, and discovery.
brittlepaper.com/2024/12/the…
Emily Pensulo retweeted
A 2024 Miles Morland Writing Scholar! I am reeling! I always think of @Writivism as my beginning. They do such beautiful work of finding diamonds in the rough! I am
so grateful for everyone and everything that led me to this point where MMF became something attainable. ❤️🥹
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Calling all photographers and visual art lovers! Mark your calendars: our amazing Visual Arts Editor, Namukolo Siyumbwa (@chiqqashanna), will be at Unpublished in Africa on December 8th at 2 PM to host the Lusaka Photo Walk.
See you there!
Register here - airtable.com/app7Nb0zw7F2u5u…
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Congratulations to Ubwali Literary Magazines, EIC, Mubanga Kalimamukwento (@UtushimiTwandi ) on winning the 2024 Dzanc Prize for Fiction for her second novel, SHIPIKISHA.
dzancbooks.org/blog/announci…
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“Proverbs are shapeshifters, changing their meaning depending on both speaker and listener,” writes @UtushimiTwandi, author of Obligations to the Wounded (University of Pittsburgh Press). Read on: at.pw.org/WRKalimamukwento
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We are excited to share our 2025 Pushcart nominations: THERESA SYLVESTER (@BijouTheresa), MUUKA GWABA (@MuukaG ), AUSTIN KALUBA (@AustinKaluba ), NATASHA DEVALIA, MALI KAMBANDU (@malingose), and MWANABIBI SIKAMO (@mwanabibi).
Congratulations to all the nominees!
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Hey folks! We're back with our 3rd reveal. Any guesses? This #VIP says it all while 'speaking of nothing' and they seem to have a thing for both water and sea ⛵🌊 🤔 Comment below👇 Answer out tomorrow! Big thanks to @BritishCouncil @catalyst_press @KaravanPress @laxfieldlit