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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
KUONYESHA ART FUND, a local Arts support initiative by CivSource Africa. Kuonyesha is a Swahili word that means to show/exhibit. Through Kuonyesha Art fund, we will show, depict, highlight, elevate, spotlight, support and celebrate the Arts in Uganda starting with the three regions of Kampala, Karamoja and Gulu. Kuonyesha Art fund […]
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 […]
The international literary scene is hard to crack. Africa has a sort of laissez-faire approach to publishing. There are hardly any literary agents on the continent. Day two of the workshop helped us understand how the international literary world works. Glaydah Namukasa, author of Deadly Ambition and Voice of a […]
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 […]
“Reading is an art of seduction. So writers must craft their words to compel a reader to feel pleasant.” Okey Ndibe Prof. Okey’s electrifying storytelling skills planted a seed in my spirit that must germinate in the near future. It transformed the core of my identity as a writer, and […]