http://www.allvoices.com/ en-us Over at Ivor W.Hartmann's Facebook fan page, some Zimbabwean writers and readers are remembering Dambudzo Marechera (June, 1952-August, 1987). The man has had a profound influence on Zimbabwean literature, and a lot of the contemporary writers in would attest to... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3963046 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:41:57 -0700 This post was created by Sunil Sharma, an Indian scholar and writer with whom I am planning to compile an anthology of Indian-Zimbabwean short stories. An Indian publisher has expressed interest in taking up this project, but before we make... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3826101 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:58:48 -0700 “Police said the 58-year-old Gates was arrested after he yelled at an officer, accused him of racial bias and refused to calm down after the officer demanded Gates show him identification to prove he lived in the home.” (Yahoo News)... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3730369 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:35:13 -0700 Danny Romero and Neal Whitman are sharing the stage at the Sacramento Poetry Center on July 13 at the Sacramento Poetry Center. The event starts at 7:30 pm. Neal Whitman lives in Pacific Grove, California, where he is a member... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3622652 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:39:23 -0700 This is the season of writing awards, and I have been visiting my city's bookstores frequently, with the hope that I would find the titles I was looking for easily. But each I time I go, I talk with employees... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3589645 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:00:28 -0700 Petina Gappah, a Zimbabwean and lawyer based in Geneva, has been shortlisted for the 2009 Frank O'Connor Short Story Award for her debut short story collection, An Elegy for Easterly. Below are the details of this update. The quotes are... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3564304 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:29:19 -0700 Yes, that's the title of a new novel coming to a booksore near you on September 15, 2009. Published by Okri Books of Chicago, the novel is by the esteemed Nigerian writer and scholar, Chielo Zona Eze, who teaches Postcolonial... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3526741 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:36:58 -0700 NEW YORK, NY (June 5, 2009) — Cave Canem Foundation, Inc., North America’s premier “home for Black Poetry,” is pleased to announce that Indigo Moor has received the inaugural Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize for his manuscript, Through... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3470593 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:10:52 -0700 Man Gone Down by author Michael Thomas has scooped the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. This is his debut novel. I started reading it today and, I tell you, it is a rich, innovative text that will get many readers... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3439561 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:43:42 -0700 In this post I interview Marcellina Chikasha, the founder of a reading initiative called TALENT. She was brought to my attention by Ivor W. Hartmann , after I complained in a blog post that all the big literary contests, judged... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3427394 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:41:19 -0700 The next issue of Munyori Literary Journal will feature interviews on the recent Dambudzo Marechera Festival at Oxford. Among the writers interviewed is Memory Chirere, who presented a paper on the influence of Marechera on University of Zimbabwe undergratuate literature... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3425181 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:29:36 -0700 I know we are the creators of the characters. We have the power to make them protagonists, to make them nameless anti-heroes, and often we are too controlling and subject them to our will, so that they operate like puppets... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3425054 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:01:42 -0700 In his review of Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins , Zakes Mda, author of The Heart of Redness, stated that Zimbabwean writers were leaders in Post-colonial African literature, "and Vera is by far the most imaginative and original voice among... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3381452 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:40:59 -0700 Sacramento Poetry Center Presents C. E. Chaffin Monday June 8, 2009 at 7:30 PM HQ for the Arts 1719 25th Street Host: Emmanuel Sigauke Craig Erick Chaffin goes by his initials because he doesn't like his first name, though he... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3381399 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:29:10 -0700 Toni Morrison on the dangers of censorship . Books are sacred, authors are humanity's necessity. Marilynne Robinson wins the 2009 Orange Prize . When it comes to writing, she takes her time, letting the story gestate even for decades. I... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3381279 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:09:15 -0700 Below is dialogue that has begun in response to a questionnaire on African literature I posted a week ago. memole, who blogs at Books of Gold , sets us off with this very good comment, which I think deserves highlighting:... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3289154 Sun, 24 May 2009 08:54:52 -0700 Over the last decade or so, there has emerged musians in Zimbabwe who have entertained the people through rough times. Alick Macheso and his Borrowdale style has given hope and brought smiles to many a face. Entertainment at its purest,... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3285619 Sat, 23 May 2009 20:35:41 -0700 The Dambudzo Marechera conference took place on from May 15 to 17 at Oxford University at an event that has been described as the university's way of reclaiming an African poet that it once rejected. My interviews with Dambudzo Marechera... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3285608 Sat, 23 May 2009 20:32:17 -0700 `In writing, as in education and other services to, or opportunities for, humanity, there has to be an element of outreach. I am very happy with the work that organizers and sponsors of African writing awards are doing in discovering... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3272119 Thu, 21 May 2009 21:42:26 -0700 I am fascinated by the authority assumed in Harold Bloom's How to Read and Why . In that book he goes on to discuss authors whom everyone who is serious about reading should read in the literary categories of short... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3258542 Wed, 20 May 2009 07:27:18 -0700