The Arts-Muse Fair

Flights  by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft and published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, has been announced as the winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2018. The £50,000 prize, which celebrates the finest works of translated fiction from around the world, has been divided equally between its author and translator. They have also both received a further £1,000 for being shortlisted. Flights  is a novel of linked fragments, from the 17th century to the present day, connected by themes of travel and human anatomy. ‘Our deliberations were hardly easy, since our shortlist was such a strong one. But I’m very pleased to say that we decided on the great Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk as our winner: Tokarczuk is a writer of wonderful wit, imagination and literary panache. In  Flights , brilliantly translated by Jennifer Croft, by a series of start

Deadline: 15 August 2018 (opens 1 June 2018) The Yale Drama Series is seeking submissions for its 2019 playwriting competition. The winning play will be selected by the series’ current judge, Ayad Akhtar. Past judges have included Edward Albee, Sir David Hare, John Guare, Marsha Norman and Nicholas Wright. Past winners have gone on to have full productions in New York, Los Angeles and London. The winner of this annual competition will be awarded the David Charles Horn Prize of $10,000, publication of his/her manuscript by Yale University Press, and a staged reading at Lincoln Center’s Claire Tow Theater. There is no entry fee. Please follow these guidelines in preparing your manuscript: This contest is restricted to plays written in the English language. Worldwide submissions are accepted. Submissions must be original, unpublished full-length plays written in English. Translations, musicals, and children’s plays are not accepted. The Yale Drama Series is inten

Ahead of the Nigerian Students’ Poetry Prize awards on Thursday this week, Poets In Nigeria (PIN) will on Wednesday hold her first annual National Summit at the Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu. The Summit has the theme, Enhancing Literary Skills Among Poets & Writers with the keynote address to be delivered by Prof. Christian Anieke, the Vice-Chancellor of Godfrey Okoye University. Mr. Eriata Oribhabor, PIN President. Programmes of the Summit include a Business session for officials and members of PIN, poetry workshop and discussions on performance poetry and poetry in indigenous languages. Registration fee for participants is N1,000.       Resource persons expected at the Summit include Justice Chidi Ugwu, Kolade Olanrewaju Freedom, and Khalid Imam. Others are Amarachi Atama, Ken Ike and Adekunle Oguntoyinbo Shola Phebian.

AFP / DON EMMERT A Bob Dylan/Robbie Robertson 1965 Fender Telecaster guitar is displayed during a media preview in New York as part of the Music Icons auction A guitar that played a key role in Bob Dylan's artistic evolution from folk music to rock fetched a half million at auction on Saturday. The guitar, a 1965 Fender Telecaster that belonged to Robbie Robertson, Dylan's guitarist, was used by Dylan, Eric Clapton and George Harrison, Julien's Auctions said Saturday. It had been expected to fetch between $400,000 and $600,000. The guitar marked the singer's path from folk stylings like "The Times They Are A-Changin'" (1964), to electric rock, like his 1965 hit "Like a Rolling Stone." Other famous guitars went under the hammer on Saturday: George Harrison's first electric guitar, a $40,000 Hofner Club 40, and a Fender Telecaster rosewood guitar made for Elvis Presley in 1968, priced at a cool $115,200. More than 40 y

Date: 15-18 August 2018, Kampala Deadline: 10 June 2018 Applications are invited for a four-day academic writing workshop hosted by AMLA in Kampala between 15-18 August, 2018. The workshop targets early career scholars of African Literary and Cultural Studies. It is designed and organised as part of a collaboration between the Arts Managers and Literary Activists (AMLA) Network, the journal  East African Literary and Cultural Studies ( EALCS), University of Exeter and University of Bristol. The workshop will support the preparation of academic articles for publication in high impact international research journals, as well as opening up opportunities for new collaborations and conversations. We are also working on a linked Special Issue of  East African Literary and Cultural Studies  on ‘New Approaches to Literary Activism in in 21st Century Africa’ and will consider some of the articles developed through this workshop for the issue. The workshop will include

15 August – 30 November 2018 Deadline: 5 June 2018 Have you recently set up or are you thinking of setting up a new platform that promotes African literature? Are you employed in a recently established literary and cultural initiative? Would you like to join a network of like-minded literary activists and arts managers?  This four-month fellowship is designed to support you to build your idea from the form in which it is right now, to an implementable stage. The fellowship is divided into two major parts namely: ·          a three day in-person workshop in Kampala, Uganda (August 15 – 17, 2018) and ·          Three months online mentoring with established arts managers and literary activists. At the successful completion of the fellowship, fellows receive a certificate of completion and join the AMLA network, a community of founders and members of Africa-centered literary and cultural initiatives. Managed jointly by Africa in Dialogue and the Centre for Afri

Four African artists have been named winners of the 2017 AIR – Bellagio Centre Artist In Residency program. They are Biyi Bandele (Multidisciplinary) Nigeria, Mona Eltahawy (Literature) Egypt, Noo Saro-Wiwa (literature) Nigeria, and Sisonke Msimang (Literature) South Africa. . The residency award is granted to applicants whose work and process align with the Africa Centre and Rockefeller Foundation’s shared goal to catalyze art that progresses the wellbeing of humanity and advances positive social change. The program is a collaboration between the Africa Centre and the  Rockefeller Foundation  to support mid to late career African artists by offering residency opportunities at the Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy.   Applications for the 2018 Artists In Residency Program will open on  July 1st, 2018.