AFRICAN WRITERS TRUST AND COMMONWEALTH WRITERS EDITORIAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS, UGANDA, 16TH -20TH JUNE 2014 African Writers Trust in partnership with Commonwealth Writers will conduct an Editorial Skills Development workshop in Kampala, Uganda, from 16th to 20th June 2014. Led by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, a book editor […]
Monthly Archives: February 2014
Direct from StoryMondo: Dear Writers This is to introduce StoryMondo, an exciting new website where you can publish your short stories and verse. But the writing we publish is special. It must have a “sense of place” – it must in some way illustrate features or evoke the atmosphere of […]
Review by Lucy A. Armstrong Intimacy that is kept distant is a rare attribute in a book, one which few authors – such as Margaret Atwood – have been able to master effectively. But Algerian writer Assia Djebar conveys this sense of secrecy and detachment beautifully as she traces the […]
Commonwealth Writers is running a non-fiction workshop in Uganda from 9-13 June 2014. Led by the Chair of the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and former deputy editor of Granta, Ellah Allfrey, the workshop will explore different ways to approach creative non-fiction. Please note that this is not a journalism […]