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Maryam Kazeem wins Huza Press/Goethe Institut Kigali Writing Residency

Maryam Kazeem was announced the winner of the Huza Press/Goethe Institut Kigali Writing Residency today, July 9, 2021. In 2020, Huza Press and the Goethe-Institut Kigali announced a new four-week writers’ residency to support writers as they complete or make significant advances with a work-in-progress novel manuscript. The residency envisioned literature as a space for […]

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Huza Press/Goethe Institut Kigali Writing Residency shortlist announced.

The shortlist for the Huza Press/Goethe Institut Kigali Writing Residency has been announce today June 28, 2021. Huza Press and the Goethe-Institut Kigali recently announced a new four-week writers’ residency to support writers as they complete or make significant advances with a work-in-progress novel manuscript. With this initiative, they stated that they were passionate about […]

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Rwanda’s Huza Press offers new residency, announces new literary series.

Kigali-based Huza Press has a new residency for writers and starts a new literary series on May 15, 2021. Huza Press, a publisher with several books by writers in the East African region based in Kigali, was founded by Louise Umutoni-Bower in 2015. One of the unique things that this innovative organisation is its initiatives […]

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Burundi writer Perpétue Miganda features at #KigaliLit.

Perpétue Miganda was the featured writer at the #KigaliLit event at the Innovation Village in Kigali, Rwanda. The event which was hosted on May 30, 2018 was moderated by blogger and poet Eric Ngangare. #KigaliLit, short for Kigali Literature, is a literary event that brings young and established authors alike from Kigali and further afield […]

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Huza Press event KigaliLit rocks Rwanda’s literary scene

Author Sarah Stricker was the guest at the second edition of KigaliLit at the Goethe-Institut Kigali on January 31, 2018. The German writer was moderated by Donnalee Donaldson. KigaliLit, short for Kigali Literature, is a series of literary events created in a collaboration between Huza Press and the Goethe-Institut Kigali. The series gives a platform […]