Resources for Writers (Page 4)

Sunday Submissions: The Island Prize & ICM Global South Translation Fellowships 2022

The Island Prize for a Debut Novel from Africa is open for submissions until December 12, 2021.
Also open for applications are the ICM Global South Translation Fellowships 2022.Continue Reading

Sunday Submissions: The Markaz Review

The Markaz Review is calling for submissions for an issue on LAUGHTER, open until December 1, 2021.Continue Reading

Sunday Submissions: Kendeka Prize for African Literature

The prize, administered by Solano Publications, is free to enter; both short stories and creative nonfiction are eligible.Continue Reading

Disappearing Professions, Memoirs, and Myths: Mophradat’s 2020 Writing Sabbatical Grants

The six recipients were selected from among nearly 100 applications that came from across the region. Decisions were made with the assistance of a jury that included authors Ahmed Naje, Hussam Hilali, and Samar Yazbek, and playwright and researcher Meriam Bousselmi. Continue Reading

Sunday Submissions: ‘The Common’ Seeks Stories from the Arabian Gulf

The Common’s summer and fall submissions call — open through the end of November — asks for stories, poems, and nonfiction set in, around, and through the Gulf.Continue Reading

An Excerpt from Faleeha Hassan’s ‘War And Me’
“From the events I recount in this memoir, you will understand that next to my name in the Unknown World or beside it at the moment I was born, the only comment inscribed must have been: ‘Faleeha Hassan will coexist with war for most of the years of her life.'”
Sudanese Writer Reem Gaafar Makes 2023 Island Prize Longlist
Organizers have announced the longlist for the 2023 Island Prize for a Debut Novel from Africa.
Rewriting National History from a Personal Perspective: Hiyem Cheurfa on Arab Women’s Life Writing
This March, Hiyem Cheurfa’s new book Contemporary Arab Women’s Life Writing and the Politics of Resistance appeared as part of Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature series. In it, Cheurfa takes us on a journey through a number of women’s memoirs, written in the context of twenty-first century uprisings. In this conversation, the author talks about the challenges and the difficulties of writing this book and how the texts she studied changed her life.
Lit & Found: ‘Sudanese Novels Through Time’
Over at Kotobli, they have posted a new list; this time, of Sudanese novels through time. The list was curated by Sudanese-American writer Razan Idris.