INTERNSHIP OFFER with the #Writivism2016 Festival Team (CLOSED)

May 11, 2016

The Centre for African Cultural Excellence is looking for an intern to serve as the Media liaison, communications and editorial assistant starting June 6, 2016, and serving until September 2, 2016. The intern’s work will be facilitated with a modest monthly stipend. If you are interested, email a cover letter and curriculum vitae by attachment to cace.director@gmail.com. addressed to … More INTERNSHIP OFFER with the #Writivism2016 Festival Team (CLOSED)

NEW Deadline for the Kofi Addo and Abena Korantemaa Prizes (CLOSED)

April 29, 2016

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)

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

2016 Okot P’Bitek Prize for Poetry in Translation Guidelines (CLOSED)

April 22, 2016

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)