About

Welcome to Writivism.

This is a home for three prizes for emerging contemporary African Literature in short fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry in translation. When we started (first announced a call for submissions in October 2012, and announced the winner on August 18, 2013), we were focused on Uganda. We then widened our scope to include the entire African continent and at the moment also include the global African diaspora. Here, you will find official information about these prizes and related activities.

Offline, between 2013 and 2017, we ran creative writing workshops all over the continent (and an online mentoring programme until 2019), including in French-speaking countries; we at one time ran up to four creative writing prizes – now reduced to three; we publish creative work by emerging African writers in annual anthologies, previously in collaboration with Kushinda and Black Letter Media; arranged a one-month Writing residency at Stellenbosch University until 2019; and curated an annual literary festival in Kampala (with outreach activities in schools, hospitals and markets) between 2013 and 2019.

You can email us at writivismlegacy@gmail.com.