African Writers Trust (AWT) has today announced the winner of the seed funding budget offered under the Publishing Fellowship programme. Abdulrahman “Abu Amirah” Ndegwa, a Mombasa-based writer, publisher and founding editor of Hekaya Arts Initiative, an online platform that publishes stories from The Swahili Coast will receive EUROS 4,000 (approx. […]
Yearly Archives: 2018
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The judges met yesterday to decide on the four new Morland Writing Scholars for 2018 out of a shortlist of twenty. We had slightly in excess of last year’s record entry of 550 submissions. Our 2018 Morland Writing Scholars are: Edwige Renee Dro – Cote d’Ivoire Kola Tubosun – Nigeria […]
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey started the final programme with the words, “I want us to imagine.” She then invited participants to imagine their particular projects and consider in what ways they see their projects changing and transforming the creative spaces in their home contexts. In the group conversation, participants communicated concrete […]
For this day we were joined by the British Council’s Creative Arts programme in the ‘Preparing, presenting and pitching applications for funds’ session. It was wonderful to have the contributions and participation of a whole range of writers, and other creatives including, illustrators, film-makers, and graphic designers – as we […]
This session opened with a Question and Answer session. From questions around biography/autobiography rewrite approaches, number of stories to be included in a short story collection, the debate between spoken word versus poems on the page, to the distinction between independent publishing and self-publishing. The questions came fast and furious, […]
The morning began with participants sharing with the wider group their favourite and least favourite short stories (fiction and non-fiction). The selection of stories, chosen by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, were given to the participants to read prior to today’s session with the prime focus of engaging with the texts in […]
The AWT Publishing Fellowship Programme ‘Mentoring and Training Workshop’ began with participant introductions from a diverse group of emerging publishers from Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. The eighteen participants represent an exciting breadth and wealth of writing and publishing experiences in East Africa. As part of […]
Thank you to all who applied for this programme. We were impressed by the volume and quality of submissions. Successful applicants have now been informed. Here at African Writers Trust, we believe that all talented writers and publishers should have access to a range of advice and information. We therefore […]
12 Writers, 6 Workshops, 3 Months, 36 Short Stories, 1 Anthology Deadline: 31st March 2022 SHORT STORY DAY AFRICA, in association with LAXFIELD LITERARY ASSOCIATES, is calling for applications. SSDA Inkubator is an intensive, three-month, online seminar designed by Short Story Day Africa and Laxfield Literary Associates, for writers to […]