by Patilda Gabriella Baluka A journey of 1000 miles begins with a step ~ Chinese Proverb The African Writers Trust (AWT) Emerging Writers workshop has been an ecstatic learning experience that has left me in an ebullient mood, I must say. For long, I had always been reluctant with my […]
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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 […]
Sunday, 4th November 2018 I thought I was calm and composed about this trip. I wasn’t telling the world about it nor was I counting down the hours to the minute I would board the plane. However, last night, I woke up thrice, switched on the lights, then went back […]
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 recently held its 3rd Editorial and Publishing Training Workshop at Forest Cottages Bukoto-Kampala, from 26th-30th of October 2015. Jean Claude Sibomana, one of the participants from Rwanda says, … ” At first, I considered editing as a process of correcting punctuation, capitalization and use of […]
FROM LARVA TO IMAGO A short story by: Zuhura Seng’enge AFRICAN WRITERS TRUST 3RD EDITORIAL AND PUBLISHING WORKSHOP KAMPALA, UGANDA OCTOBER 26th-31st 2015 “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” ~ George Bernard Shaw FROM LARVA TO IMAGO The first step Some […]
African Writers Trust held its 3rd Editorial and publishing Training workshop (EPT3), from 26th-30th October 2015 at Forest Cottages, Bukoto, in Kampala. Twelve participants from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Somalia benefited from 5 days of intensive training facilitated by James Woodhouse, a UK based professional editor, publisher, literary agent with over […]