The winner of the 4th Annual Writivism Short Story Prize has just been announced at a ceremony held in Kampala, Uganda. The announcement crowns the end of yet another Writivism festival. There were five shortlisted stories on which the judges felt the following: The List by Joseph Aito is an entertaining story that examines a love … More 4th Annual Writivism Short Story Prize Winner Announced
The Centre for African Cultural Excellence (CACE) and the Writivism Festival is proud to announce the winner of The Okot P’Bitek Prize for Poetry in Translation. This prize celebrates fifty years since the publication of Okot P’Bitek’s Song of Lawino by awarding poets who write originally in an African indigenous language and translate their own … More WINNER of the 2016 Okot P’Bitek Prize Announced
In April this year, poet Harriet Anena staged a one person show at Peter Kagayi’s Poetry Shrine. Titled ‘I Bow For My Boobs’, after one of the poems in her collection, ‘A Nation in Labour’, the show was received by some journalists in comparison to Dr. Stella Nyanzi’s protest at Makerere. Such interpretations of Anena’s … More Anena Harriet to bow for her boobs at #Writivism2016
The joint shortlist for the 2016 Writivism Prizes for Short Fiction, Poetry in Translation and Non Fiction have just been announced. Eleven writers from Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana and Ivory Coast are on the shortlist. Below we tell you more about them. Short Story Prize Gloria Mwaniga Minage is a high school teacher in … More Who are the shortlisted writers for the 2016 Writivism Prizes?
The Writivism Prizes 