The Writivism Anthology 2013 heralds the entry onto the literature landscape, of a generation of young writers born after 1986. After a competition and a writing workshop with Zukiswa Wanner, Beatrice Lamwaka, Constance Obonyo and Okwiri Oduor, the writers were placed under the mentorship of Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, Emmanuel Iduma, Ukamaka Evelyn Olisakwe, Dami Ajayi, Richard Ali and Novuyo Rosa Tshuma. The results of the elaborate process coordinated by the Centre for African Cultural Excellence is this slim collection of new flash fiction from emerging Ugandan writers. The tales range from a...

Fire In The Night And Other Stories - The 2014 Writivism Anthology contains the best of the entries submitted to the continent-wide Writivism Competition for previously unpublished writers of short fiction living in Africa. If you do not want your preconceptions of what makes an 'African' story challenged do not read this book If however you want to enjoy imaginative and well-crafted, entertaining, moving, powerful tales by some of Africa's most promising emerging writers - themselves mentored and guided by some of the most well-known names in contemporary African fiction - then this is the...

This exciting anthology of short stories showcases the work of 13 emerging writers from the African continent, finalists in the Center for African Cultural Excellence's Writivism Short Story Competition 2015. Now in its third year, this increasingly popular annual competition attracted over 250 entries from countries as far afield as Botswana, Tanzania, Nigeria and Rwanda, to name but a few. The best of the stories were selected by a panel of judges chaired by Chika Unigwe, and including Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Rachel Zadok, Tendai Huchu and Ainehi Edoro. The anthology is edited by Sumayya Lee and...