Etel Adnan Poetry Prize

Sunday Submissions: Etel Adnan Poetry Series

The University of Arkansas Press has opened submissions for its Etel Adan Poetry Series.Continue Reading

Sunday Submissions: Etel Adnan Poetry Prize & National Translation Awards

The Etel Adnan Poetry Prize and the National Translation Award are both open for submissions until mid-April.Continue Reading

Sunday Submissions: Etel Adnan Poetry Prize & Institut Français

The Etel Adnan Poetry Prize is calling for submissions. The Institut Français is calling for applications for their program ‘NAFAS’.Continue Reading

Jessica Abughattas Wins 2020 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize

“‘Strip’ is a captivating debut about desire and dispossession, and that tireless poetic metaphor, the body. Audacious and clear-eyed, plainspoken and brassy, these are songs that break free from confinement.”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.