Tag: Femrite
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Femrite’s International Literature Festival celebrates Abdulrazak Gurnah.
The International Literature Festival celebrating Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah will be hosted by Femrite in Kyambogo University, Kampala from November 22 – 24, 2023. Author and academic Abdulrazak Gurnah was declared literature laureate at the Nobel Prize in 2021; he is the first from East Africa to win the coveted award. The Zanzibar-born UK-based writer…
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Uganda Book Market rocks Kampala literary scene.
The Uganda Book Market, a new initiative bringing together the Ugandan publishing and reading community, is rocking the Kampala literary scene. The Uganda Book Market is a space aimed at giving exposure to creative works and other trade books in Uganda and a platform for interaction among publishers, writers, book traders and readers. It is…
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Femrite is turning 20! (Invitation for their conference)
The Uganda Women Writers Association popularly known as Femrite is celebrating twenty years as an organisation this year. Femrite was founded when women writers gathered on the office of Hon. Mary Karooro Okurut at the Makerere University in 1996. Okurut was a lecturer in the Literature Department at the time. It was attended by Lillian Tindyebwa,…
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Ugandan poet Harriet Anena showcases in Kampala
Femrite is one of the most organised female collectives in the publishing industry on the continent. It has been described as more than just a feminist publisher by some but in truth what they do is as feminist as it gets. In a good way. This year, the organisation has been doing a series of…
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Caine Prize workshop underlines Uganda’s rise in literature
I just recently saw this lovely post from the people from the Caine Prize where they were hosting some of their 2012 and 2013 shortlisted writers to a workshop in Uganda not too long ago. 2012’s gang included Rotimi Babatunde (winner), Billy Kahora, Stanley Kenani, and Melissa Myambo. From the class of 2013, there was…