Tag: Nick Makoha
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T.S. Eliot Prize 2025 shortlist announced
Nick Makoha, Catherine-Esther Cowie, and Isabelle Baafi are on the T.S. Eliot Prize 2025 shortlist, announced on Monday, October 5, 2025. The T. S. Eliot Prize is awarded annually to the writer of the best new poetry collection published in the UK and Ireland. Founded to celebrate the UK Poetry Book Society’s 40th birthday and…
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A snapshot of the Kampala Writes LitFest 2025
Here are the highlights from the Kampala Writes LitFest 2025 hosted at Makerere University from August 15 – 17, 2025. The Kampala Writes Literature Festival, also known as Kampala Writes LitFest, was established in 2024 to provide a platform for authors, writers, and literature enthusiasts to connect, support one another, and engage in vital conversations.…
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UK’s Royal Society of Literature announces 2025 fellows
The Royal Society of Literature announced its newest fellows in London, UK, on Wednesday, July 16, 2025. Here are the writers of African descent among them. The Royal Society of Literature was founded to “reward literary merit and excite literary talent” by King George IV in 1820. Currently led by award-winning author Bernardine Evaristo, it…
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Forward Prizes for Poetry 2025 shortlists announced
The Forward Prizes for Poetry 2025 shortlists were announced in London, UK, on Thursday, July 17, 2025. Here are the writers of African descent in the running. The Forward Prizes for Poetry were founded by William Sieghart to celebrate excellence in poetry and increase its audience in 1992. There are four prizes on offer in…
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Nick Makoha wins UK’s Ivan Juritz Prize 2021.
Nick Makoha was announced the winner of the Ivan Juritz Prize 2021 in the text category on June 28, 2021. The Ivan Juritz Prize was established in 2014 to celebrate the creative explosion of the modernist era and reward art that seeks to ‘make it new’. Postgraduate students throughout Europe either from traditional academic disciplines…
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Dami Ajayi, Nick Makoha, Koleka Putuma are Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry 2018 finalists.
Dami Ajayi, Nick Makoha, and Koleka Putuma are the finalists of the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry 2018 announced on May 24, 2019. The Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry is named for poet, publisher, editor, businesswoman, and philanthropist, Glenna Luschei, who has also endowed in perpetuity the literary quarterly Prairie Schooner. The award,…
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Nick Makoha on team to judge T.S. Eliot Prize 2019.
Nick Makoha is on the judging panel for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2019 announced on April 9, 2019. T.S. Eliot, full name Thomas Stearns Eliot, was one of the twentieth century’s major poets. Some of his poetry collections were Prufrock and Other Observations (1917), Ara Vos Prec (London) and Poems: 1920 (New York). The United…
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The Writivism 2019 mentors have been announced.
The mentors for Writivism 2019 were announced by the Kampala, Uganda headquartered initiative on March 16, 2019. Writivism, the project of writing as activism, that works to build the capacity for writing on the continent was started in Kampala, Uganda in 2012. One of its unique features is its mentor program where established writers mentor…
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African writers converge for Berlin’s first African Book Festival.
Writers from across the African continent converged on Berlin for the first African Book Festival with Chris Abani as the headliner on April 26-28, 2018. Organised by the InterKontinental and curated by Olumide Popoola, the festival looked at transnationalism and migration in a more literary sense of “keeping in motion”. Berlin has a very unique…
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Nick Makoha poetry collection ‘Kingdom of Gravity’ launches in Kampala
Nick Makoha’s launched his poetry collection Kingdom of Gravity at the Ntinda Complex in Kampala, Uganda on July 13, 2017. His panel was moderated by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi. Nick Makoha first came to the notice of this blogger when he won the Brunel University African Poetry Prize 2015. Makoha who fled Uganda, because of the…
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Brunel University African Poetry Prize 2016 shortlist out
The Brunel University African Poetry Prize is a poetry prize of £3000 aimed at the development, celebration, and promotion of poetry from Africa. The prize is open to African poets worldwide and each poet has to submit 10 poems to be eligible. It is sponsored by Brunel University London and Commonwealth Writers. Previous winner of the…
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Babishai Niwe poetry mentorship program for May 2016
We all know the Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation which ensures that poetry gets its space at the literature table on the African continent. They have been doing this with first a poetry prize as well as a festival at their Kampala, Uganda base. Now the team at Babishai Niwe is set to launch their pilot…
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Adeeko Ibukun wins the Babishai Niwe Poetry Award 2015
The Babishai Niwe Poetry Award for 2015 where an African poet goes home with $1000 went to Adeeko Ibukun for his poem “A Room With A Drowning Book.” The poetry award which was the highlight of the Babishai Poetry Festival was handed out by the President of the Association of Nigerian Authors Prof Remi Raji…
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Joint winners of Brunel University African Poetry Prize 2015 announced
The winners of this years Brunel University African Poetry Prize 2015 with £3000 on offer were announced yesterday. The joint winners are Safia Elhillo and Nick Makoha, poets who judges thought exemplify the quality and diversity of emerging African poetry. Sudan’s Elhillo lives in New York and is currently pursuing an MFA in poetry at…
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Brunel University African Poetry Prize 2015 shortlistees announced
The Brunel University African Poetry Prize is an annual poetry prize aimed at the development, celebration, and promotion of poetry from Africa with prize money of £3000. Pretty good for poetry. The prize is sponsored by Brunel University a public research university located in London, UK, and Commonwealth Writers. The shortlist for the 2015 edition…