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
Originally posted on My Wandering Journey:
It’s four o’clock, my regular boda guy is late, I’m tapping my foot impatiently under my desk as my eyes turn back to the code I was troubleshooting. You see I am a writer of software by day and a writer of fiction by night. After one last satisfactory…
Originally posted on Subtle Royalty:
Literature professors insist no language is ‘richer’ than the other. The vitality is lost in translation, they say. And so this was the case for Nakisanze, a luganda performance poet who is also the author of The Triangle, a book that was launched last night. She read an excerpt from…
The Writivism Prizes 