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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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Residencies Rwanda

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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Callouts Events Fiction Rwanda

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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Brittle Paper Persons of the Year 2020 announced.

The Brittle Paper Persons of the Year 2020 were revealed on December 7, 2020. In 2010, Brittle Paper was started by Nigeria-born USA-based academic Ainehi Edoro-Glines as a new voice in an African literary space that was starting to show itself on the world stage. In 2015, the platform set up the Brittle Paper African […]

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Book Reviews Fiction Kenya

Review Wednesday: A review of Billy Kahora’s “The Cape Cod Bicycle War And Other Stories.”

Book: The Cape Cod Bicycle War And Other Stories Author: Billy Kahora Publisher: Huza Press Genre: Fiction/Short stories Number of pages: 303 Publication year: 2019 Billy Kahora’s The Cape Cod Bicycle War And Other Stories is a collection of eleven short stories written over the last decade and a half set across Kenya, South Africa and […]

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Fiction Kenya Launches

Billy Kahora’s “The Cape Cod Bicycle War And Other Stories” launches in Nairobi.

Billy Kahora’s long-awaited short story collection The Cape Cod Bicycle War And Other Stories launched at Pawa254 in Nairobi, Kenya on August 1, 2019. Billy Kahora, whose short stories have been twice shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing, is the writer of the nonfiction title The True Story of David Munyakei.  He has […]

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Events Fiction Kenya Launches Rwanda Uganda

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi charms Nairobi, Kigali in “Manchester Happened” tour.

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi charmed residents of Nairobi and Kigali on her Manchester Happened East African tour. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi won the Kwani Manuscript prize in 2013 giving her name recognition across the continent. The manuscript published as Kintu in the following year earned the writer many accolades like being longlisted for the Etisalat Prize. The […]

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Fiction Kenya Launches Rwanda

RadioBook Rwanda launches at Goethe-Institut Nairobi.

RadioBook Rwanda launched at Goethe-Institut Nairobi on Thursday, December 13, 2018. RadioBook Rwanda is an international collaboration aimed at producing short stories by contemporary Rwandan writers both as podcasts and beautiful pocket-size print editions combining new art and writing. It is a collaboration between Huza Press from Rwanda, Kwani Trust from Kenya and No Bindings […]

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Burundi Events Nonfiction Rwanda

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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Nigeria Publishers Rwanda

Praxis magazine focuses on African publishing in March         

Praxis Magazine for arts and literature is a Nigerian based publication which showcases cutting edge arts, literature, podcasts and performance poetry from established and emerging writers, artists and poets. I have been following this online publication for a few months now and found it to have some really cool content. This month our friends at […]

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Anthologies Awards Fiction Rwanda

Joint winners go home with Rwandan short story competition

We have a winner. Or rather two winners. The winners of the inaugural Huza Press short story competition and they are Darla Rudakubana and Daniel Rafiki. The two winners of the first Rwandan short story competition that we have ever heard of was announced at the Century Park in Nyarutarama on Saturday. The two share […]

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Anthologies Awards Rwanda

Rwandan Anthology Prize by Huza Press awarded this weekend

Its finally here. After many moons, the inaugural Rwandan Anthology known as the The Huza Press Short Story Award will be awarded at a glittering ceremony in Kigali on Saturday at 6pm. September 4 will be a good time to be in the Rwandan capital to see some of the most exciting new writers from […]

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Anthologies Awards Fiction Rwanda

Rwandan anthology shortlist announced

I have been keeping you abreast of an exciting new project coming out of Rwanda. Huza Press a publisher in the country are currently in the process of coming out with a new anthology with stories from the East African country. The publisher has just announced the shortlist from the longer list of writers in […]

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Anthologies Fiction Rwanda

Mentors start signing up for Rwanda anthology

A few weeks ago I mentioned that Rwandan writers were asked to submit stories for a new anthology. The deadline came and went and Huza Press, the people behind the project, tell us that they got even more entries than they had anticipated. Success! Those who submitted their stories and are now in the running  […]