African Writers Trust has trained writers for 10 years now. Some of whom have gone ahead to publish their work, start publishing houses, offer editorial services and so on and so forth. During day two of the AWT Poetry Training workshop, three of our alumni were guest speakers. Ronald Kasirivu […]
Professional Training workshop for Creative Writers
A poem should be available universally-Prof.Laban Erapu Day one of The AWT Poetry Training workshop was held on Tuesday, 3rd December 2019 at AWT offices, Kyaliwajjala-Namugongo. The participants represented a number of poetry organisations such as Kitara Nation, Echo Minds Poets, Kelele At Makerere, Lantern Meet Foundation, and the rest […]
Deadline: 30th November 2019 African Writers Trust is planning a Poetry Training workshop under the topic: Understanding the Business of Poetry to be held at AWT offices, Kyaliwajjala-Namugongo from 3rd -4th December 2019. The training will target emerging poets looking to gain skills in poetry writing and editing, practising poets […]
Article by BAMUTURAKI MUSINGUZI The government policy of promoting science subjects over the arts is having effects on the labour market with some employers observing that majority of the current crop of graduates lack communication and critical thinking skills needed in the workplace. This critical observation emerged at a public dialogue […]
More than two millennia ago, Greek Philosopher Plato wrote in his book, Republic, “No poetry should be admitted save hymns to the gods and oration on famous men.” Today, many people hold the same sentiment according to poet, author and Professor of Literature, Timothy Wangusa, who gave the key note […]
Day one of the Professional Training workshop for Creative Writers gathered participants from various walks of life; from practising writers to a few that are just starting out. The one common strand between all of them was that they felt the call to write and to add quality or improve […]
African Writers Trust is planning a Professional Training Workshop for Creative Writers under the topic: Mastering the Challenges of Fiction to be held at the Fairway Hotel, Kampala-Uganda from 9th -10th September 2019. The workshop will be led by novelist and distinguished professor of creative writing Okey Ndibe https://okeyndibe.com/ . The […]
African Writers Trusts (AWT) 5th Editing and Publishing Training workshop was held on the 6th – 9th October 2017, at the Country Lake Resort, Garuga, Entebbe. The workshop was facilitated by Margaret Busby OBE, Hon. FRSL (Nana AkuaAckon). Margaret is a writer, editor, critic and broadcaster who was born in Ghana […]
African Writers Trust (AWT) is pleased to announce its 4th edition of the Editorial and Publishing Training Workshop. Applications are invited from writers and editors from Uganda, Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The workshop, which will be facilitated by experienced professionals in the publishing industry aims to: […]
A video clip of what took place at African Writers Trust 3rd Editorial and Publishing Training Workshop