By Eliseus Bamporineza “I have read…” echoed in my world. At the African Writers Trust (AWT) Writing and Reading Residency 2021, I felt empowered by inspiring voices from my fellow writers every time they gave feedback on different stories shared by some of us. It stunned me to hear them […]
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For SAND‘s 23rd issue, we’re looking for art, poetry, fiction, flash fiction, and translated work that subverts, work that pushes against the boundaries of form, message, and voice in ways that we will feel, physically, in our bodies. We want work that haunts us with its soul, edge, and truth. […]
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 […]
Fairway Hotel in Kampala is silent on the rainy May evening that Jackie Kay, Scottish poet and novelist, stands to read her poetry. The Uganda International Writers Conference has just ended, but most of the delegates are still here. In fact, the crowd seems larger than it was during the […]
There was poetry in all his gestures. In the way he teased and toyed with his audience; played and poked fun at the gathering of emerging and established poets and writers, students, academics and book lovers from across the board who turned up at Uganda’s National Cultural Centre on Thursday, […]