Tag: Pemi Aguda
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Pemi Aguda wins UK’s Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award 2020.
Pemi Aguda was announced the winner of the Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award 2020 today, May 12, 2020. Deborah Rogers (1938-2014) was a literary agent renowned for her taste, her loyalty and her immense generosity in the support she gave to authors. The UK agent’s particular genius lay in identifying and supporting talented young people…
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Pemi Aguda, Stephen Buoro on UK’s Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award 2020 shortlist.
Pemi Aguda and Stephen Buoro are on the shortlist for the Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award 2020 announced on May 1, 2020. Deborah Rogers (1938-2014) was a literary agent renowned for her taste, her loyalty and her immense generosity in the support she gave to authors. The UK agent’s particular genius lay in identifying and…
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Pemi Aguda is first Writivism Stellenbosch University writing residency recipient
Pemi Aguda is the first recipient of the new residency for African writers announced today by the Centre for African Cultural Excellence (CACE) and South Africa’s Stellenbosch University English department. This new residency for emerging African Writers gets basic funding from the Miles Morland Foundation with the university supporting the programme in kind. Apart from…
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CACE announces guidelines for Writivism Short Story Prize 2016
The Writivism Short Story Prize is an annual award for emerging African writers administered by the Center for African Cultural Excellence (CACE). The prize which was started in 2015 by was won by Pemi Aguda. The race for the new prize winner is officially on with our friends at CACE announcing the guidelines for the…
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Writivism Workshop 2016 participants announced at Ake Festival 2015
The young writers who will be taking part in the Writivism workshops in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry were announced on Friday afternoon at the Ake Festival happening in Abeokuta, Nigeria. The workshops will be running in Accra, Kampala, Abidjan, Dakar, and Goma in 2016 and will be facilitated by Yewande Omotoso, Sitawa Namwalie, Mamadou Diallo,…
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Writivism Festival 2015 Day 5: Languages, Afrikology, and a sex panel
Sunday was the final day of the Writivism Festival 2015. The day when we would be knowing the winner of this year’s Short Story Prize winner. Before that huge announcement, there were several activities at the National Theatre in Kampala, Uganda. The keynote address in the late afternoon would be given by Mukoma Wa Ngugi…
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Pemi Aguda Wins Writivism Short Story Prize 2015
Nigeria writer Pemi Aguda is the winner of the Writivism Short Story 2015 for her story, Caterer, Caterer. The writer was announced at a ceremony at the National Theatre in Kampala on Sunday evening. The evening, which was emceed by Writivism board member and recently announced Etisalat judge Zukiswa Wanner, had a series of activities…
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The Writivism Short Story Prize Shortlist 2015 out
The shortlist for the Writivism Short Story Competition 2015 has been announced by Chika Unigwe the chair of the judging panel. She was helped in her task by Mukoma wa Ngugi, Tendai Huchu, Rachel Zadok, and Ainehi Edoro. The stories were read blind, as in they didn’t know who there were reading, and those still…
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The Writivism Short Story Prize 2015 Longlist
The long list for the 2015 Writivism Short Story Prize, selected from a record 277 entries, was announced last Friday afternoon. The panel of judges for this year’s prize chaired by Chika Unigwe comprised Mukoma wa Ngugi, Tendai Huchu, Ainehi Edoro, and Rachel Zadok. They were assisted by many readers who helped whittle down submissions,…