Arts and culture is life if you are not making it. They are making you through a fusion of traditional craftsmanship and contemporary interpretations, unveiling the intricate tapestry of global cultures. From visual arts that paint vivid stories on canvases to timeless writings weaponized like scissors to trim your mind to fit the writer’s perceptions in literature, our Arts & Culture section is a sanctuary for people of black heritage seeking inspiration and cultural enrichment.
Sundress Publications is pleased to announce that we are now open for submissions for our annual poetry broadside contest. The contest will be open for submission between September 1st to
The Lagos music scene is set to come alive this October as Make Music Lagos hosts its much-anticipated Album Listening Party, powered by British Council Nigeria. More than just another
The 2026 edition of the Afrika Redefined Indie Book Prize for quality, independently published books (fiction, poetry, and creative/narrative non-fiction) by African authors is open for submissions. About the Prize.
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize—administered and funded by the Commonwealth Foundation—is one of the world’s most prestigious awards for unpublished short fiction. Open annually, it welcomes entries from across the
London is a city crowded with voices, a place where countless words float about, colliding, competing, and often lost in the noise. For Hannah Stanislaus, poet and cultural organiser, the
The Waltham Forest Poetry Competition invites you to send us poems on the theme of WEATHER (or you can also send poems on the theme of WHETHER). Send us up
Submissions remain open for the 2025 Oxford Poetry Prize, with just two weeks left before the deadline at midnight on Sunday, 31 August 2025. The Prize is awarded annually by
Join Jendella Benson at The Heath Bookshop in Birmingham for an unforgettable evening of conversation and insight as she discusses her powerful new book, All That We’ve Got. Jendella will be
Submission Guidelines: Please read carefully! [FREE] submissions are open from June 23, 2025 – July 13, 2025. For this challenge, please submit only once! We hope to offer this free
We are running the last Music Industry Knowledge-Boosting Masterclass as part of our 2025 British Black Music Month offer. A Ghanaian music industry professional suggested we offered a discount on the
