Put your writing talent to test. Write a short story and have the chance of winning $500.
The Intwasa Short Story Competition is an annual literary event seeking to promote original creative writing talent in English. The winning story will be awarded the Yvonne Vera Award which carries a $500 cash prize.
RULES:
There is no particular theme
Entries must be written in English
Entries should be previously unpublished
Only one entry per person
All work must be original
Entries must be typed.
Maximum 3000 words.
The competition is open to all Zimbabwe citizens and residents
Entries must be submitted by July 31, 2012
Late entries will not be accepted.
Only the short-listed candidates will be personally notified
Send stories to Intwasa Short Story Competition, Office 403, 4th Floor, LAPF House, Bulawayo or info.intwasa@gmail.com or info@intwasa.org
Runyararo Cynthia Mutandi Festival Administrator Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo Office 403, 4th Floor LAPF House 8th Ave & J. Moyo St. Bulawayo Zimbabwe Tel/Fax: +263 9 63928 Cell: +263 772 814 185
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For queries/ submissions: info.intwasa@gmail.com or info@intwasa.org
Writers International Network Zimbabwe (WIN) in partnership with Global Arts Trust presents: Short Story Writing Competition & Workshop
Entries are being invited from unpublished writers for a short story writing competition which will build up to a writers’ workshop to be held in August, 2012. Top three entries in Shona and English categories will receive book prizes while participants in the competition will have an opportunity to take part in the August follow-up workshop. The aim of the competition is to encourage creativity and originality, and to assess the skills of unpublished short story writers. The follow-up workshop will cater for the needs assessed in the competition. Details of the workshop will be communicated to those who will have entered the competition via email, phone, or our official blog.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Entries must be in Shona or English language
Entries must be 2000 or less words
One story per person
Entries should bear author’s full contact details such as email, phone number, and address
Entries may be used during the follow-up workshop by facilitator/s
Anyone participating in the competition must be a paid-up member of WIN and be able to attend the workshop in Harare
There is no set theme
Winners will be announced and rewarded at the workshop
Closing Date for competition is Friday, July 20, 2012.
To take part in the competition, register your membership with WIN. To get in the crucial workshop, get in the competition first!
Send your entry to: WIN/GLOBAL ARTS Trust, 168 Chnhoyi Street, Harare. Or email: winzimbabwe@gmail.com. For more information, please feel free to call 0774548466
Savanna Trust in collaboration with the University of Zimbabwe Theatre Arts Department invites artists, media experts, civic society leaders, academics and human rights activist to submit abstracts and performance/exhibition/film/workshop proposals for the 4th protest Arts International Festival. The theme for this year is “Protest Arts, Culture and Democracy: Imagining and inventing the future.”
Festival symposium sub-theme:
· Crisis protest arts and democratic engagement
· Imagining alternative spaces, venues and audiences for protest arts
· Protest arts, innovation and aesthetic excellence for the 21st Century
· The media and protest arts: prospects and challenges for the future
· Aesthetics of protest and the politics of transition and constitution-making process
· Protest arts and the struggle of the everyday: gender, race, ethnicity and classism.
· Artistic/aesthetic dimensions of protest marches and demonstrations: Prospects and challenges
· Globalisation and Protest Arts: The present and the future
· Arts, culture, religion and the prophetic voice for democracy
Submission of abstracts of performance/workshop/exhibition proposals
Abstracts and proposals of between 200 and 350 words should be e-mailed, not later than 30 May 2012 to paifst@gmail.com
Note: Due to overwhelming interest in the festival the organisers are unable to fund travel and accommodation for all successful regional and international participants. However, the festival will assist prospective participants who want support letters etc. to secure own funding.
(Note: Aside from academic papers, the organizers are seeking proposals from artists and theatre poets who would like to participate/ present in the conference.)
Call for papers and proposals: ‘Disability’ and Citizenship - ‘From visions to action’
Conference Date: 9- 11 October 2012
Venue: University of Zimbabwe
University of Zimbabwe and its partners invites academics, students, researchers, professionals, artists, civil society and policy makers to present academic and/or policy related papers, posters, workshops and performances on disability and citizenship. In recognition of the fact that contemporary conceptions of citizenship centre around notions of human rights, responsibilities and ‘active’ participation in all spheres of human endeavours, this special conference is called to conceptualise/theorise, contextualise and proffer practical suggestions on negotiating ‘disability’ related challenges.
Cognisant of the fact that people with ‘disabilities’ have generally been perceived as marginalised and excluded from major social, political, economic and cultural practices, the conference seeks to further interrogate major barriers to the full participation of people with disabilities as citizens and to explore practical strategies of addressing identified issues and problems. We therefore encourage innovative insights and practices in the following conference thematic areas.
1. Disability, political participation and citizenship 2. Disability, law and citizenship 3. Media, disability and citizenship 4. Disability and student activism 5. Performance and Disability 6. Literature: metaphors and symbols of Disability 7. Sport, recreation and Disability: politics of participation 8. Visual Arts, disability and citizenship 9. Religion/spirituality and citizenship: past, present and future. 10. Disability, discourse/rhetoric and the politics of language 11. Education/critical pedagogy and disability 12. Historical/cultural narratives of disability: implications on citizenship 13. Disability research: politics of inclusion and exclusion 14. Medical science, disability and citizenship 15. The politics of the body and disability activism 16. Space and Environment: barriers and possibilities to participation 17. Disability, employment and the politics of empowerment 18. Gender, disability and politics of participation
Important information
Presentations at the conference are encouraged and welcome in the following formats: academic/policy papers, posters, performances/workshops and visual exhibitions/displays. University and college students will have a special forum in which they will present
All Proposals and Abstracts should be sent to nmuwonwa@gmail.com
Abstracts should not exceed 300 words
Visual displays (e.g. posters, short films, sculpture, electronic images)
Workshops/ Performances - (e .g, dance, music, theatre poetry)
Conference Products
1) Reviewed papers will be published in a journal. 2) Policy Proposals will be presented to relevant organisations
Savanna Trust in collaboration with the University of Zimbabwe Theatre Arts Department invites artists, media experts, civic society leaders, academics and human rights activist to submit abstracts and performance/exhibition/film/workshop proposals for the 4th protest Arts International Festival. The theme for this year is “Protest Arts, Culture and Democracy: Imagining and inventing the future.”
Festival symposium sub-theme:
· Crisis protest arts and democratic engagement
· Imagining alternative spaces, venues and audiences for protest arts
· Protest arts, innovation and aesthetic excellence for the 21st Century
· The media and protest arts: prospects and challenges for the future
· Aesthetics of protest and the politics of transition and constitution-making process
· Protest arts and the struggle of the everyday: gender, race, ethnicity and classism.
· Artistic/aesthetic dimensions of protest marches and demonstrations: Prospects and challenges
· Globalisation and Protest Arts: The present and the future
· Arts, culture, religion and the prophetic voice for democracy
Submission of abstracts of performance/workshop/exhibition proposals
Abstracts and proposals of between 200 and 350 words should be e-mailed, not later than 30 May 2012 to paifst@gmail.com
Note: Due to overwhelming interest in the festival the organisers are unable to fund travel and accommodation for all successful regional and international participants. However, the festival will assist prospective participants who want support letters etc. to secure own funding.
The Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA) is a 6-day annual festival that showcases the very best of Zimbabwean, regional and international arts and culture in a comprehensive programme of theatre, dance, music, circus, street performance, spoken word, craft and visual arts. HIFA brings together socially and culturally disparate groups of Zimbabweans to celebrate the healing and constructive capacity of the arts.
HIFA 2012 will be the 13th edition of the festival. Our 2012 theme, A SHOW OF SPIRIT, points to both the vibrant nature of HIFA, and the passion and aspiration of our audiences. We are celebrating the capacity of the arts to impart courage, compassion and determination, and calling on our audience to boldly embrace the creative force within all of us.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For inquiries: to learn more about the artistic program, e-mail artists@hifa.co.zw
The return of Bulawayo's foremost poetry slam happens on April 7, 2012 from 2pm until 9pm at Les Randezvous Coffee Shop, 9th Avenue and Main Street, Bulawayo. $2 entry.
Feel Good Do Good Show (8pm - 11pm) will feature Mariegold Adams and Dj Trezh aka Ruth Marimo for a live discussion on Zimbabwean Writers and Zimbabwean Literature Today.
Live in the studio will be:
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma an award-winning short fiction writer from Zimbabwe. She was the winner of the Intwasa Short Story Competition 2009.
Ivor Hartmann a Zimbabwean writer living between Harare and Johannesburg. He publishes, StoryTime, an African fiction ezine, and his fiction and non-fiction pieces have been published in various magazines and
Emmanuel Sigauke is a Zimbabwean writer based in Sacramento, California USA. He helped found the Zimbabwe Budding Writers Association
Topics will include Zimbabwean writers and the books they read & how the books have influenced their writing. Zimbabwe literature today, New African short story anthologies and new genres in African writing.
As a response to the request of the writers at the first Harare writers meeting of Saturday 3 December 2011 at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, ZWA is inviting you to its second Harare members meeting to be held at the British Council, 16 Cork Road, Belgravia (opposite the South African Embassy) on Saturday March 10, 2012 from 1:00pm to 4:30pm.
This time the discussion topic is ‘How I Create’ and Musician LEONARD KARIKOGA ZHAKATA and Writer DAVID MUNGOSHI will be talking about their experiences as creators. Alongside this will be some readings and discussion on what ZWA has encountered so far and our plans to fully go national. A substantive agenda will be sent to you very soon.
Those who were not at the first meeting are reminded to bring $10 membership fees. Remember: the major objective of ZWA is to bring together all willing individual writers of Zimbabwe in order to encourage creative writing, reading and publishing in all forms possible, conduct workshops, and provide for literary discussions.
Zimbabwe Writers Association (ZWA) is the newest nationally inclusive writers. Organization whose formation started in July 2010 leading to the AGM of June 4, 2011It was fully registered with the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe in January 2011. Zimbabwean writers have taken the initiative to coordinate themselves to form an organisation to represent them and defend their interests. The birth of ZWA was a culmination of self initiated efforts and activities taken by writers of diverse backgrounds with the vision of developing into a strong and dynamic umbrella organisation for writers in Zimbabwe.
Deadline (registration for artists): 30 April 2012
Date of event: 18 - 22 September 2012
DaIntwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo is a multi-disciplinary arts festival that brings together various art forms i.e. dance, theatre, music, film, literary arts, visual arts, spoken word and fashion within one platform. The festival is aimed at celebrating artistic talent present locally, regionally and globally and ensures that there is cross fertilization of ideas, collaborations, and exchanges between various arts disciplines. The festival also creates employment and promotes sustainability for artists, art groups and technical people in the arts.
Artists of all disciplines are invited to take part in the up coming 2012 Intwasa festival. Artists can register by downloading the application form below and hand it in at our offices or via e-mail.
Download application form >>
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For inquiries: info@intwasa.org
For submissions: LAPF House, Suite 403, 8th Avenue & J. Moyo Avenue, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Nhimbe Trust in its role as the implementing organisation for the Zimbabwe Creative Civil Society’s Plan of Action for arts and culture (NPAAC); and with support from Prohelvetia, will be running an Arts Advocacy Training Workshop from 24 - 28 April 2012.
Background
In terms of governance, the arts and culture sector falls under several ministries that have no common platform for planning and regular consultation on several issues. These include the formulation, review and implementation of the National Cultural Policy, the development of strategies for the implementation of UNESCO Conventions in the field of culture, and protocols, agreements and charters of the African Union and the SADC.
The arts advocacy programme is meant to stimulate a culture of rights based advocacy and lobbying among artists and arts journalists. It is hoped that the programme will also strengthen networking between artists and journalists. A group of 10 artists and 5 Arts Journalists from Zimbabwe will be trained by a Zimbabwean and South African trainer following the objectives below:
Objectives of the training
Artists
•To build capacity of artists and their associations as they lobby government and advocate for their rights as well as the improvement of their operating environment; •To strengthen dialogue and interaction between artists, their associations and stakeholders operating in the arts and culture sector; •To contribute to the advocacy around the revising of outdated pieces of legislation and policies governing arts and culture in the country; •To encourage the use of information technology (IT) and social media for advocacy purposes.
Journalists
•To expose journalists to issues around creative industries, the creative economy, cultural industries and challenges affecting the arts and culture sector in order for them to cover the sector adequately; •To strengthen the existing arts journalists network.
Candidates
•Applicants (Artists) should be committed to advocacy and lobbying in the arts and culture sector (members of associations and networks are encouraged to apply); •A general understanding of the National Cultural Policy, UNESCO Conventions and other international standard setting instruments in the field of arts and culture; •Journalists should be committed to objective reporting on arts and culture (Members of the Arts Journalist Network have an added advantage).
At the end of the advocacy training workshop arts journalists and artists will be required to:
•write articles and press releases about the training workshop attended •Join Advocacy Working Groups (AWG); document and publicise outputs from the AWGs •Take part in media advocacy campaigns on AWG themes
Interested candidates should send a motivation letter and short CV (1page) to joshnyap@nhimbe.org or joshnyap@gmail.com by 24 February 2012.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For inquiries: joshnyap@nhimbe.org or joshnyap@gmail.com
For submissions: joshnyap@nhimbe.org or joshnyap@gmail.com
Writers International Network Zimbabwe proudly unveils the inaugural Dambudzo Marechera Writing Competition, which aims to motivate and award unpublished writers. The legacy of the late great Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987) is undoubtedly conspicuous in the literary circles locally and internationally. Many general and scholarly books have been written on the life and works of Marechera. International conferences to discuss his enigmatic life and works are being held across the globe at universities and Book Fairs. Marechera was a storyteller and poet of great talent who was but at one time called a ‘mad man’ by his own. We have seen it fit to honor his outstanding inspiration to the local writing industry by having this competition named after him.
Themes should be social.
CATEGORIES
Short Story
Length: 2500 words Language: English Maximum Number of Entries: Two stories
Poetry
Length: One page Language: Shona Maximum Number of Entries: Two poems
REGULATIONS
· Stories and poems should be original and unpublished · Deadline for submissions is October 15, 2011 · Competition is open to residents and citizens of Zimbabwe · Winners will be announced and awarded in December at the Writers’ End of Year Get-Together
PRIZES
UNDISCLOSED AT THE MOMENT
Entries, clearly labeled ‘Dambudzo Marechera Writing Competition’ must be posted or hand-delivered to 168 Chinhoyi Street, Harare before October 15 2011.
Zimbabwe’s NoViolet Bulawayo has won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing, described as Africa’s leading literary award, for her short story entitled ‘Hitting Budapest’, from The Boston Review, Vol 35, no. 6 - Nov/Dec 2010.
The Chair of Judges, award-winning author Hisham Matar, announced NoViolet Bulawayo as the winner of the £10,000 prize at a dinner held this evening (Monday 11 July) at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
Hisham Matar said: "The language of ‘Hitting Budapest’ crackles. Here we encounter Darling, Bastard, Chipo, Godknows, Stina and Sbho, a gang reminiscent of Clockwork Orange. But these are children, poor and violated and hungry. This is a story with moral power and weight, it has the artistry to refrain from moral commentary. NoViolet Bulawayo is a writer who takes delight in language."
NoViolet Bulawayo was born and raised in Zimbabwe. She recently completed her MFA at Cornell University, in the US, where she is now a Truman Capote Fellow and Lecturer of English. Another of her stories, ‘Snapshots’, was shortlisted for the 2009 SA PEN/Studzinski Literary Award. NoViolet has recently completed a novel manuscript tentatively titled We Need New Names, and has begun work on a memoir project.
Also shortlisted were:
* Beatrice Lamwaka (Uganda) ‘Butterfly dreams’ from ‘Butterfly Dreams and Other New Short Stories from Uganda’ published by Critical, Cultural and Communications Press, Nottingham, 2010 * Tim Keegan (South Africa) ‘What Molly Knew’ from ‘Bad Company’ published by Pan Macmillan SA, 2008 * Lauri Kubuitsile (Botswana) ‘In the spirit of McPhineas Lata’ from ‘The Bed Book of Short Stories’ published by Modjaji Books, SA, 2010 * David Medalie (South Africa) ‘The Mistress’s Dog’ from ‘The Mistress’s Dog: Short stories 1996-2010’ published by Picador Africa, 2010
The panel of judges is chaired by award-winning Libyan novelist Hisham Matar, whose first novel, In the Country of Men, was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize. His second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, was published by Viking this March.
He is joined on the panel by Granta deputy editor Ellah Allfrey, publisher, film and travel writer Vicky Unwin, Georgetown University Professor and poet David Gewanter, and the award-winning author Aminatta Forna.
Once again, the winner of the £10,000 Caine Prize will be given the opportunity to take up a month’s residence at Georgetown University, Washington DC as a ‘Caine Prize/Georgetown University Writer-in-Residence’. The award will cover all travel and living expenses.
Last year the Caine Prize was won by Sierra Leonean writer Olufemi Terry. As the then Chair of judges, Fiammetta Rocco, said at the time, the story was "ambitious, brave and hugely imaginative. Olufemi Terry’s ‘Stickfighting Days’ presents a heroic culture that is Homeric in its scale and conception. The execution of this story is so tight and the presentation so cinematic, it confirms Olufemi Terry as a talent with an enormous future."
Previous winners include Sudan’s Leila Aboulela, winner of the first Caine Prize in 2000, whose new novel Lyrics Alley was published in January 2010 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, as well as Binyavanga Wainaina, from Kenya, who founded the well-known literary magazine, Kwani?, dedicated to promoting the work of new Kenyan writers and whose memoir One Day I Will Write About this Place will be published by Granta Books in November 2011.
Come to Moshi, Tanzania within sight of Mount Kilimanjaro. Receive excellent training from BBC trainers. Cover an inspiring youth sports development tournament. Make friends and tell the world about it.
The East Africa Cup is about a week in Moshi, and a year in the community. It’s for organisations who use sport in a positive way in East Africa, and for young people involved it’s an opportunity to get involved in an excellent sport, cultural exchange and education event.
Before a ball is kicked, young people attend workshops in topics like health, conflict resolution and leadership skills. Their leaders benefit not just from co-hosting the event, but also from the opportunities associated with being amongst some of the best referees, youth leaders and physios in the region.
The BBC World Service Trust has been involved in the event for the last two years, delivering training and mentoring in both journalism and media skills for youth leaders who need to use the media to get their message across.
It’s not just a sports story, so we don’t just want sports journalists: the practical training will cover interview skills, social media for journalists, getting a story from a press conference, and how to cover sports for development.
Accommodation and food is provided as is transport: although you’ll be travelling on the team coach, not flying. After the tournament you’ll get the chance to be mentored online by the team.
If you are interested, please get in touch – email iLearn@bbc.co.uk and explain why you want to get involved, including a CV. You can be a print, online or broadcast journalist, although you will be asked to work outside your comfort zone.
Training starts on 19 June, so you'll need to travel in advance of that - departure dates will be based on where you are based.
