Tag: Ellah Allfrey
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Caine Prize Workshop 2016 in Zambia concludes
The annual Caine Prize Workshop ended yesterday at the Chaminuka Lodge near Lusaka, Zambia. The participants included previous winners of the Caine Prize, those shortlisted as well as some who would be considered future stars. The writers at the workshop included 2015 Caine Prize winner, Namwali Serpell (Zambia), 2014 winner Okwiri Oduor (Kenya), 2013 winner…
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Morland Writing Scholarships 2015 shortlist announced
The Miles Morland Foundation has just announced the shortlist for the 2015 Morland Writing Scholarships. These applicants will be whittled down to four on December 14th by the judges Ellah Allfrey who is chair, Olufemi Terry, and Muthoni Garland and announced shortly after. The list features a healthy list of twenty-one applicants with seven from…
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Miles Morland Fellowship 2015: Start submitting folks
It’s that time of the year again. The writing scholarship of the Miles Morland Foundation is open for business and waiting for your submissions from today. Three Morland Writing Scholarships for fiction and one for non-fiction are open to anyone writing in the English language who was born in Africa or both of whose parents…
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Miles Morland Foundation 2014 scholarships open
Remember a few months ago when Doreen Baingana, Percy Zvomuya, and Tony Mochama won a writing scholarship few of us had heard about from the Miles Moreland Foundation? Well, you’ll be pleased to know that the scholarship in question by the Miles Morland Foundation has opened for this year’s edition. The Miles Morland Foundation today…
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Top African writers under 40 announced
Africa39 a project celebrating the top 39 African writers under the age of 40 has announced its best at the London Book Fair today. The Africa39 project seeks to produce a possible snapshot of our shared African future. The unique part of the project is that it lists not just English but African languages with…
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Commonwealth Writers non-fiction workshop for Uganda
Not everyone can write fiction. That’s not really a bad thing if you think about it as there are other forms of expressing yourself in the written word like memoir, literary reportage, essays et al. For those who want to get into that part of the writing game then the Commonwealth Short Story Prize cats…
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Doreen Baingana and Tony Mochama for Miles Morland Writing Scholarships
The Miles Morland Scholarship 2013 recipients have been announced with Doreen Baingana, Tony Mochama, and Percy Zvomuya getting the nod. The scholarships awarded by the Miles Morland Foundation were announced at the Caine Prize earlier this year when that American dude won it. The recipients receive a grant of £18,000 to be paid monthly over…