Tag: Alice Gichuru

  • Erica Sugo Anyadike, Alice Gichuru on Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2019 shortlist.

    Erica Sugo Anyadike, Alice Gichuru on Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2019 shortlist.

    Erica Sugo Anyadike and Alice Gichuru are on the Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2019 shortlist announced on October 1, 2019. Wasafiri, launched in 1984, is a magazine for international contemporary writing based in the UK. It is renowned for publishing some of the world’s most distinguished writers like Chinua…

  • Burt Awards Kenya 2016 finalists announced

    Burt Awards Kenya 2016 finalists announced

    The finalists for the Burt Awards Kenya 2016 were announced at a breakfast at the Nairobi Safari Club last week. The award celebrates writers of Young Adult fiction. The Burt Awards which are administered by the National Book Development Council of Kenya are one of the richest in the region with writers going home with…

  • African Writers Trust (AWT) workshop participants announced

    African Writers Trust (AWT) workshop participants announced

    The African Writers Trust (AWT) has announced the writers who have qualified for the third Editorial and Publishing Training workshop take place in Kampala, Uganda. This call out which I told folks about has come to its logical conclusion and the list of the writers from the Horn of Africa heading to “KLA” is 12…