By Lillian Akampurira Aujo I was recently honoured to be one of the recipients of the African Writers Trust (AWT) and International Writing Program (IWP) Writing and Reading Residency. For someone writing on the continent, such opportunities remain few and rare – especially now that the Covid 19 pandemic has […]
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By Chisom Okwara When applying for the African Writers Trust (AWT) Writing and Reading residency, I submitted a creative nonfiction piece that I had started writing in January (this year) and had left fallow for a couple of months. I ended up working on the same piece – a travel […]
By Lillian Tibasiima The African Writers Trust(AWT) Writing and Reading Residency helped me realize that I greatly needed to improve my craft. Previously, I would start writing without planning; I would think about the characters and the story as I went along and I would suffer from writer’s block, almost […]
by Ann Agwang April 27th to May 2nd 2021 has been the best week of my life yet. I arrived at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday 27th April to a cosy room, excellent hotel service and a glass of juice for the African Writers Trust (AWT) Writing and Reading Residency at […]
By Precious C. Kemigisha Arrival: Rose of SharonThe first thing I noticed as we entered the gate at HotSprings Villa were the flowers adorning the perfectly trimmed hedges. I walked to the Hibiscus tree and simply stared at the pretty red petals and yellow anthers of its Rose of Sharon […]
Article first appeared on The EastAfrican. American feminist, theorist and writer bell hooks often says that patriarchy has no gender, and Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi offers an unflinching look at this maxim in her second novel, out this month in North America with the title A Girl is a Body of […]