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African Writing is published bi-monthly. We welcome submissions from our readers. Our preference is for new, unpublished work. Our natural constituency of writers and material are African or Diasporan but we will publish any writer who writes into the African Condition. We are adventurous in our definition of Africana, but we will also publish good literature generally.

Write a short story for radio and enter the 2010 Commonwealth Short Story Competition.

First prize of £2,000 and regional and special prizes of £500.

The Competition is open to anyone aged 19 or over who is a citizen of a Commonwealth country. Stories should be original, unpublished, written in English and no more than 600 words long. Only one entry may be submitted per person. Winning entries will be recorded onto CD and broadcast by radio stations across the Commonwealth.

Online entry form.

Closing date for entries 31 March 2010

The StoryTime African New Fiction FreEzine is all about new African fiction reading and writing. We endeavour to encourage online fiction publication at ST, as a multi-purpose means to improve writing ability and exposure.

Sumaila Isah Umaisha is the Literary Editor of New Nigerian Newspapers, Kaduna, Nigeria. A teacher, journalist and administrator, the site's main concern is literature, literature and literature...

Sefi Atta was born in Lagos, Nigeria. She was educated there, in England and the United States.

A former chartered accountant and CPA, she is a graduate of the creative writing program at Antioch University, Los Angeles. Her short stories have appeared in journals like Los Angeles Review and Mississipi Review and have won prizes from Zoetrope and Red Hen Press. Her radio plays have been broadcast by the BBC. She is the winner of PEN International's 2004/2005 David TK Wong Prize and in 2006, her debut novel Everything Good Will Come was awarded the inaugural Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa.

She lives in Mississippi with her husband Gboyega Ransome-Kuti, a medical doctor, and their daughter, Temi.

Tolu Ogunlesi, new photoblogger, writer (poet, essayist, magazine columnist), trainee management consultant, weblosopher, aspiring entrepreneur, failed bass guitarist, thinknowlogist

Chris Abani's prose includes Song For Night (Akashic, 2007), The Virgin of Flames (Penguin, 2007), Becoming Abigail (Akashic, 2006), GraceLand (FSG, 2004), and Masters of the Board (Delta, 1985). His poetry collections are Hands Washing Water (Copper Canyon, 2006), Dog Woman (Red Hen, 2004), Daphne's Lot (Red Hen, 2003), and Kalakuta Republic (Saqi, 2001). He is a Professor at the University of California, Riverside and the recipient of the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the Prince Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Beyond the Margins Award & the PEN Hemingway Book Prize.

Saraba is an electronic magazine that publishes short stories, reviews, poetry and creative non-fiction by emerging writers. By emerging writers we mean writers who have been published little or not but write qualitatively. We publish the e-zine quarterly and it can be downloaded free from the site.

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