#WomenCrushWednesday #WriteTips
A publisher, a poet and a writer dispense advice today. And it turned out to be a #WCW to boot. We hope you are inspired by their diverse viewpoints to…
#WriterWednesday #WriteTips – The Artist, The Author and The Poet
Our #WriteTips come from a poet, a visual artist and an author so they all approach writing in quite different ways. Each of their views shine light on the writer's…
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‘I like to explore what the absence of love can do to a living being.’ Akwaeke Emezi interviews Nana Nyarko Boateng.
Another Wednesday, another writer tagged! Writer to Writer, A Game of Writer Tag continues. Akwaeke picked Ghanaian writer Nana Nyarko Boateng. In conversation, Nana opened up about the personal nature of her…
#WeekendRead – Juliane Okot Bitek’s 100 Days
This excerpt comes from Juliane Okot Bitek's first published collection is 100 Days. It is a poetic, painful countdown that both pays tribute to and records the horrific Rwandan…
#WriteTips: Three Writers, Three Perspectives.
Earlier in the year we were lucky enough to interview Yewande Omotoso, Mahtem Shiferraw and Edyth Bulbring - three writers who are equally talented but have quite different styles. They gave some…
‘Art, beyond the artist, is created in the moment of interaction…’ An Interview with Juliane Okot Bitek.
The poet, writer and scholar, Juliane Okot Bitek mines history for meaning and revelation. Her own, as she is the daughter of seminal poet, Okot p'Bitek and East Africa's, in particular the…
The #WeekendRead. In 2065 – A Poem by Peter Kagayi
Peter Kagayi and his publisher, Nyana Kakoma, have both recently been the subjects of our #WriterWednesday feature. This weekend, inspire yourself with Peter's poetry. Peter's collection, The Headline That Morning,…
‘You do not have to have big offices in a big building to have a publishing house.’ An Interview with Nyana Kakoma.
Image from Writivism 2015 Without writers, there are no publishers; without publishers there are no writers. Chicken and egg situation, for sure. From time to time Short Story Day Africa…
‘Sound informs mood which in turn informs rhythm.’ An Interview with Peter Kagayi.
Today we shall listen to poetryWhile seated comfortablyYesterday we listened to guns coughing - Listening To Poetry Peter, your poetry collection is the first book to be published by Uganda's…
‘White is a color | Black is art’. An Interview with Mahtem Shiferraw.
Image: http://habeshala.tumblr.com/ Ethiopian-American poet Mahtem Shiferraw won the 2015 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets for her manuscript, Fuchsia, now published. She spoke to us about her poetry, unique sensory experiences,…