Tag: Dilman Dila

  • African Speculative Fiction Society announces Nommo Awards 2017 contenders

    African Speculative Fiction Society announces Nommo Awards 2017 contenders

    The African Speculative Fiction Society announced the contenders for the Nommo Awards 2017 on April 4, 2017. The writers announced are shortlisted for Best Novel, Best Novella, Best Short Story, and Best Graphic Novel, chosen from eligible works published in 2015 or 2016. The African Speculative Fiction Society, a new community of writers, editors, publishers…

  • Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire interviews African authors on This is Africa

    Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire interviews African authors on This is Africa

    Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire will be familiar to readers of this blog as one of the driving forces behind the Writivism initiative. The Writivism initiative aims at mentoring the next generation of writers in conjunction with the current writers on the continent. Bwesigye will be hosting a series of interviews of nine African authors that will…

  • Storymoja Festival 2014 Daily Blog – Saturday, 20th September

    Storymoja Festival 2014 Daily Blog – Saturday, 20th September

    Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka never showed up for the gala event on Friday night and I was starting to feel like these guys were avoiding me. The other day I was at the Blankets & Wine and DJ Cleo the headline act allegedly refused to get on the plane to come even though he had…