Call For Submissions For The 4th Femrite Regional Women Writers' Residency, November 2012
25/01/2012

January 25, 2012 Uganda Women Writers Association (FEMRITE) calls for submissions for her 4th Regional Women Writers Residence to be held in November 2012. This is an inspiring initiative that brings together upcoming African women writers.

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Call for entries: Commonwealth Book Prize and Commonwealth Short Story Prize
09/12/2011

The Commonwealth Foundation has announced a call for entries for the new Commonwealth Book Prize and Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The prizes are part of a new initiative, Commonwealth Writers, an online hub to inspire, inform and create a community of writers from all over the world....

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2011 Summer Literary Seminars
07/12/2011

Our partners, Summer Literary Seminars runs an annual program, SLS Kenya, whose emphasis is on cultural immersion as an indelible part of the literary and broader creative process. Following inter-faculty participation between the 2010 Kwani? Litfest and SLS Kenya 2011, the program brings...

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The Granta Book of The African Short Story
01/10/2011

The Granta Book of the African Short Story introduces a group of African writers described by its editor, Helon Habila, as 'the post-nationalist generation'. Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent - from Morocco to Zimbabwe, Uganda to Kenya - Habila has focused...

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