Category: Features

BREAKING: Sooo Many Stories to launch Kagayi Peter’s game-changing poetry collection

May 19, 2016

Nyana Kakoma is launching a publishing house exclusive for Ugandan literature soon. The independent publisher takes the name we have so far known as her blog’s moniker. Join in welcoming Sooo Many Stories to the publishing world. The company will publish literary fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and has plans of publishing pulp fiction. The bigger … More BREAKING: Sooo Many Stories to launch Kagayi Peter’s game-changing poetry collection

FOUR African Creative Writing Workshops You MUST Attend

April 25, 2016

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

Bakwa Magazine to publish Writivism stories

April 19, 2016

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

How to Find Out If You Need a Vibration – Or Vibrator to Write

April 11, 2016

By Jennifer Emelife Chinenye  I was in the staff room working on my pupils’ lesson notes when it occurred to me that I hadn’t checked my email in two days. My Android tablet had issues so I wasn’t getting email notifications. Putting away my lesson books, I switched on my laptop and looked through my … More How to Find Out If You Need a Vibration – Or Vibrator to Write