There is more time for writers resident in Ghana to enter the Kofi Addo Prize for Non fiction and the Abena Korantemaa Prize for Oral History. We have extended the deadline for entries to May 30, 2016. The two prizes will be judged by NoViolet Bulawayo, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Yewande Omotoso, Ukamaka Olisakwe, … More NEW Deadline for the Kofi Addo and Abena Korantemaa Prizes (CLOSED)
We have one more workshop to close our creative writing workshop season this year. Sitawa Namwalie will facilitate the five day Poetry workshop at a date to be announced. On Friday April 22, 2016, we announced a new prize that we are running. This shows the direction we seem to be taking. Over three years, we … More FOUR African Creative Writing Workshops You MUST Attend
The Okot P’Bitek Prize for Poetry in Translation is a one-off award for emerging African poets administered by the Centre for African Cultural Excellence (CACE) to celebrate fifty years since the publication of Okot P’Bitek’s Song of Lawino. The prize aims to award poets who write originally in an African indigenous language and translate their … More 2016 Okot P’Bitek Prize for Poetry in Translation Guidelines (CLOSED)
Next month, Bakwa Magazine will publish stories (flash fiction) written at our workshops held in French in the Central and West African cities of Dakar, Kinshasa and Abidjan. This collaboration aims at connecting emerging writers to African publishing platforms. The workshops were facilitated by Richard Ali A Mutu, Edwige Dro, Yehni Djidji, Mamadou Diallo and … More Bakwa Magazine to publish Writivism stories
The Writivism Prizes 