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Fidelity bank launches Creative Writing Blog and Literary Café Weekly Writing Competition

renewnaija wrote 4 days ago: FIDELITY Bank Plc has launched the Fidelity Creative Writing Blog and Literary Café Weekly Writing C … more →

Tags: Creativity, Good News!, media, Abuja, Association of Nigerian Authors, Chinua Achebe, Eghosa Imasuen, Jumoke Verissimo, Nigeria

What should we be reading?

anotherrambler wrote 6 days ago: Cornel West on BBC Newsnight with Gavin Esler talking about race, class, empire, and his week at CRA … more →

Tags: Arts & Humanities, Books, Chinua Achebe, Cornel West, CRASSH, Derek Walcott, Du Bois, Mary Margaret McCabe, Newsnight

I Held You in the Square

Sarah Ward wrote 1 week ago: I Held You in the Square ~ Ben Okri I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself ar … more →

Tags: Inspiration, Life, Love, I Held You in the Square, Love 2, Poem, Poetry

Writing about not writing... Or... On wanting to 'cut it'...10 comments

Lindsay Waller-Wilkinson wrote 1 week ago: Me… Looking remarkably carefree… Because I’m rather in the doldrums of late. Somew … more →

Tags: Diary, Home, Adam Marek, Burford, Carrie Kania, Cathy Galvin, Corinne Fowler, doldrums, john siddique

Pic: Library Display of Black Speculative Fiction Authors

Craig Gidney wrote 2 weeks ago: Today, at Martin Luther King Library (in DC) there was a display featuring books by black science fi … more →

Tags: Karen Lord, authors of color, Pictures], samuel r. delany, Octavia Butler, Nnedi Okorafor, steve barnes, Nalo Hopkinson, Libraries

Tuesday4 comments

Victoria wrote 3 weeks ago:   Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide. Ben Okri … more →

Tags: Inspiration, Photography (2), Photography, Nature, Quotes, Flower, Magic, Tuesday, Art

Why I stopped writing on Dante (and why I may start again some time in the future)3 comments

The Translator wrote 1 month ago: It sometimes occurs to me how odd it is that I should have spent ten years of my life working almost … more →

Tags: Miscellaneous, Travel Writing, Borders, Poetry, Italy, Dante, Charles Swan, Dante Alighieri, renaissance

Two with roots that stretch to Nigeria & Ghana on 2013 British "Granta Best Young Novelists' List"

emotan77 wrote 1 month ago: To those readers who might have read this since it was posted Monday, the title back then missed an … more →

Tags: Arts & Culture, Africa, World, Chimamanda Adichie, Britain's brightest writers, Granta List, Taiye Selasi, Helen Oyeyemi, Ghana Must Go

Post number 1

mimpimoon wrote 1 month ago: Quote from Ben Okri First writing after a long while. This is quite refreshing. I’ve always li … more →

Tags: Penang, Travel, Island, Malaysia, Asia

Three Books About...The Road

Bookblurb wrote 1 month ago: By Cath Murphy Books can be about anything – elephants, antimacassars, milk cartons – but generally … more →

Tags: Books, Cormac Mccarthy, Jack Kerouac, on the road, Literature, Lit Reactor, The Road, Cath Murphy, three books about

SHORT OF A CENTURY2 comments

emmanuelamankwah wrote 2 months ago: The ogene of the town crier is piercing through the still night. There’s clear tragedy in the town c … more →

Tags: Africa, Chinua Achebe, English Literature, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria, Poetry, Booker Prize, New York Times, Boston, Massachusetts

Ben Okri 15 March

Henrietta Richer wrote 2 months ago: Adapted from Wikipedia Ben Okri OBE FRSL, is a Nigerian poet and novelist Okri is considered one of … more →

Tags: Books, Authors, famished road, Nigeria, okri

A day at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature3 comments

nectar1269 wrote 2 months ago: I enjoyed the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature so much last year I decided I was definitely g … more →

Tags: Books 2, Dubai, Anthony Horowitz, Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, Garden of Evening Mists, Jeet Thayil, Jeffrey Archer, Lagos, Literature

No Culture in Dubai? Come to Emirates Lit Fest. For Ben Okri.1 comment

primadonnab wrote 2 months ago: It’s no secret to anyone who knows me that I’ve been a bit starved for intellectual conv … more →

Tags: On Me and My Mundanity, LUMS, Pakistan, writing, Dubai, Karachi, Emirates Lit Fest, African writers, Shakespeare

Sunday - A Trinity of Influence(s?)7 comments

N Filbert wrote 2 months ago: Carpe Diem … more →

Tags: Current Reading, journallings..., Fiction, social sciences, film, Movies, Recommended Readings, Heidegger, Cognitive Science

Here. Now.

responsiblenomad wrote 2 months ago: I sip my morning tea and nibble on fried bread at a place around the corner from my new guesthouse ( … more →

Tags: social enterprise, Myanmar, Burma, african elegy, Yangon, tea shop

WWW_Wednesdays 20th Feb 20138 comments

crazygoangirl wrote 3 months ago: It’s truly incredible how time flies when the reading’s good To play along, just answer … more →

Tags: Reading, Books, WWW_Wednesdays, Weekly Theme, Hisham Matar, Weekly Post, famished road, John Irving, Anatomy of Disappearance

starbook.

ikennasopensecret wrote 3 months ago: He felt as if he hadn’t slept because he spent all night wandering through the world looking f … more →

Tags: Excerpts, Novel, Author, Starbook

The Famished Road – Ben Okri2 comments

crazygoangirl wrote 3 months ago: Aaaaaah! Finally done! I was beginning to think I never would be At 574 pages, this is not the longe … more →

Tags: Booker Reviews, Reading, Literature, Man Booker Prize, Books, Booker Prize Winners, Book, the famished road, Trilogy


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