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, was the inaugural winner of the AWT’s 2018 Seed Fund for Emerging Publishers worth EURO 4,200. The aim of the fund is to facilitate the […]
AWT publishing Fellowship programme
Botho Lejowa, a Motswana writer won the AWT’s 2020 Seed Fund for Emerging Publishers worth EURO 4,200 for her manuscript project, Meetings with Death. The fund was conducted under our Publishing Fellowship Programme (PFP). The specific aim of the seed fund is to facilitate the winner to produce a model […]
PRESS RELEASE Monday, 18th May, 2020 Motswana writer, Botho Lejowa has today been announced as the winner of the African Writers Trust 2020 Seed Funding worth EURO 4,200. Now in its second edition, the budget is offered under the organisation’s Publishing Fellowship programme, designed to create a step-change in the […]
PRESS RELEASE DATE: 13th May 2020 The African Writers Trust is delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2020 Publishing Fellowship programme Seed Funding budget worth EURO 4,200. For this second edition, 11 Fellows were selected from Uganda, Botswana, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe to participate in the Mentoring and […]
Author: The Hekaya Arts Initiative Book Blurb: Abdi wants to create a new tune and galvanise his dying band, find his father and, reunite with his lover. When his love is tested, Abdi follows the winds north from Kilwa to Mombasa, carrying his hopes and dreams along. He must survive heartbreak […]
In 2018, Abdulrahman `Abu Amirah’ Ndegwa, the founding editor of Hekaya Initiative, was one of the fellows selected to attend the African Writers Trust (AWT) Publishing Fellowship Programme and he was trained by Ellah P. Wakatama. After the programme, all the Fellows in the 2018 PFP programme were given the […]
Marketing is simply defined as putting the right product (-either a book or books) in the right place, at the right price, at the right time. Though this sounds easy, a lot of hard work and research is needed for marketing to work. The use of a marketing mix is a […]
“All publishing should satisfy a need in the market,” Kelvin Smith, The Publishing Business. This session on marketing books was facilitated by Crystal B. Rutangye, founder of Scribe House Uganda. She is a publishing consultant majorly helping self-publishing authors/firms to produce and sell standard publications. As a writer, you need to know […]
On the last day of the workshop, guest speaker, Oscar Ranzo, shared with participants ten tips of making money from your writing and publishing. Oscar Ranzo is a Fellow of the International Writing Programme at the University of Iowa, USA. He is the author of twenty children’s books as the […]
In recent times, there has been growth of self-publishing and many authors are choosing that mode of publishing over the traditional one. It was therefore imperative that this topic was part of the programme. Participants were tasked to generate a list of ten things you should know before going into […]