Tag: Elias Mutani

  • The Heart is A Bastard anthology launches in Nairobi.

    The Heart is A Bastard anthology launches in Nairobi.

    The Heart is A Bastard, a new anthology edited by Zukiswa Wanner and Elias Mutani, was launched in Nairobi, Kenya on Saturday, May 27, 2023. In 2020, the University of East Anglia appointed Tsitsi Dangarembga as the International Chair of Creative Writing. As part of the activities for the role, the team would deliver a…

  • Meet the facilitators for the Goethe Institut’s #AfroYoungAdult workshops.

    Meet the facilitators for the Goethe Institut’s #AfroYoungAdult workshops.

    The team running the Goethe sponsored #AfroYoungAdult project has announced the facilitators for the workshops to be conducted across eight African cities. In September 2018, the Goethe-Institut invited aspiring African writers interested in writing for Young Adult fiction to submit short stories of 3000-5000 words in length in Kiswahili, English or French. The best texts…

  • African Writers Trust workshop hosted in Kampala, Uganda.

    African Writers Trust workshop hosted in Kampala, Uganda.

    The African Writers Trust hosted a mentoring and training workshop moderated by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey alongside Demere Kitunga and Catherine Mark. The workshop was hosted in November 2018. The African Writers Trust is an organisation founded to coordinate and bring together African writers in the Diaspora and writers on the continent to promote the sharing…