Writivism Short Story Prize 2015 Entries to open February 1st

The Writivism festival is an annual Literary Festival held every June, in Kampala Uganda, featuring the leading contemporary African writers.

Entries for this year's short story prize will be open February 1st.

The festival theme Engaging the Makerere Literary Tradition: Conversations across generations of African writers. 

The festival will feature keynote addresses on the theme, panel discussions, conversations on sub-themes related to the over-arching theme. There will also be master classes, a stage play and book launches.

The panel of judges for this year’s prize will be chaired by Chika Unigwe. The judges include Mukoma wa Ngugi, Ainehi Edoro, Tendai Huchu and Rachel Zadok. The Writivism 2015 workshops will be held on various dates in January 2015 in five different African cities.

Writivism 2015 Season Dates

• Workshops (January 2015)
• Gaborone Workshop (2nd-4th January)
• Lagos Workshop (16th-18th January)
• Johannesburg and Dar es Salaam Workshops (23rd -25th January)
• Kampala Workshop (28th - 31st January)
• Schools Pre-Texts Registration (January – March)
• Pre-Texts Students' Training (May)
• Mentoring (February – May)
• Newspaper and online publication of flash fiction (Year-round)
• Anthology publication (April and June)
• Short Story Prize Submission Season (1 February - 30 April)
• Announcement of Short Story Prize Longlist and Shortlist (May and June)
• Festival (17-21 June)

For more information check the Writivism website http://writivism.com/.