Huza Press Call for Short Stories from Rwanda
Huza Press is pleased to announce a call for submissions for its first collection of short stories from Rwanda. The winner will receive USD 1000 and the top 10 will receive…
#WriterWednedsay #Writetips
You may have noticed we've been featuring some amazing African writers in our #WriterWednesday slot. We've been collecting their editing and writing tips for you, too. Here's a round up…
Calling all writers in Botswana!
Water Flow Writer Workshop - Gabarone - Saturday 4 July 2015 Writers working on entries for the 2015 Short Story Day Africa Prize, or wanting to begin drafting an entry for…
I try to kill my father. Again.
I try to kill my father. Again. He deserved more than that one fatal stab my mother delivered. I mean, she should have used that knife to chop his remains…
The Vanishings Experiment- An Evaluation by Lauri Kubuitsile
So a few months ago I set out on an experiment. I had a novel, The Vanishings, which had been accepted by two publishers but in both cases I had to…
‘Have no delusions – publishing is a business.’ An Interview with Lauri Kubuitsile.
Detail from the cover of The Vanishings. Lauri Kubuitsile is the Joyce Carol-Oates of the African writing scene. She is an award-winning, versatile writer and, like Oates, is exceptionally prolific…
Criminals and Fiction or How NOT to Go to Sweden By Lauri Kubuitsile
So the other week I was off to Uppsala Sweden to attend an event at The Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) about African crime fiction. To say everything went wrong would…
“I write whatever the fuck I want, whatever matters to me.” An Interview with Tendai Huchu.
Tiah caught up with Tendai Huchu to discuss dividing time, philosophy, clichés and stories; long and short. TIAH: Your latest novel, The Maestro, The Magistrate and The Mathematician, has three separate narratives that…
He giggled as he thought about how every day would be Not-Bakery-Day.
The sun rose in the exact way that it shouldn’t that morning. The colours that bled across the horizon were all wrong, almost in the same way of a double-cooked…
An Interview with Henrietta Rose-Innes on the relationship between humans and non-humans, writing and home.
Detail from the cover of Green Lion, Henrietta Rose-Innes' latest novel. "I want to write my patch of the world into…