COP27 IN AFRICASHARE AFRICA CLI-FI AWARD2022Climate Fiction Project ‘When done correctly, Cli-Fi can connect people to their world; it can help usunderstand what future climate may be like, or what current climate effects are.’ –John Abraham, The Guardian WHO WE ARE Botswana Society for Human Development (BSHD) was founded in […]
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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 […]
We are pleased to announce our 2020 shortlist for the annual Morland Writing Scholarships. This year we received 992 entries, over 300 more than last year. They came from 30 different countries. Selecting the shortlist was a difficult task. Although the list is decided on a combination of literary merit […]
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 […]
When Goretti asked me to write a short piece on how the African Writers Trust Publishing Fellowship Programme impacted me, my knee jerk reaction was to speak to the technical transformation. And there was so much to talk about in that space. I wanted to talk about the completely eye-opening […]
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 […]
The AWT Publishing Fellowship Programme `Mentoring and Training workshop’ took place from 8th to 13th March 2020. This second edition was tailored for a diverse group of emerging publishers, self-publishing authors and those who intend to self-publish. 11 Fellows were drawn from Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Uganda. The […]
PRESS RELEASE DATE: 26th February 2020 The African Writers Trust is pleased to announce the shortlist for the Publishing Fellowship Programme 2020. They are as follows: Botho Lejowa – Botswana Nixon Mateulah – Malawi Timwa Nana Lipenga – Malawi Alvaro Fausta Taruma – Mozambique Leanet Kamizhi – Zambia Ingrid Nayame- […]