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Xklam8n encourages easy reading and writing using exciting mobile phone and pc texts through monthly SMS Story competitions in Uganda

Xklam8n is a Japanese-style mobile-lit business in Uganda that allows the 'C' generation (C - collaboration, creativity, content) to use cell phones to write short stories, poems, even novels via sms or the web in monthly SMS Story Competitions* that recognise the winner and first runner-up with cash prizes of USHS 100,000 and USHS 50,000 respectively.

"The revolutionary aspect of online literature is that it is unfiltered, unfettered... its structures support collaboration and cross-pollination, and a vibrant critical community." -- Dana Goodyear.

SENDING EXAMPLE: Simply write an SMS story in the 140 character space of your phone beginning the SMS with the letter 'x' followed by a space then the title of ur book and chapter number (no spaces and preferrably short) then leave a space followed by the text of ur book normally (which must of course have the title ;-) and send to 7197.

For example: x thecapital1 Once upon a time.... sent to 7197 means you are writing Chapter 1 of the book 'The Capital City' etc. Textisms like '2 u' or 'da man' or 'i luv u' are allowed. It's a whole new genre of literature...and everyone's invited for the party!!! Your story will appear on our website within 48 hours.

RECEIVING EXAMPLE: To receive a cellphone story send the word 'xklam8n' then the known title of the book and chapter number (no spaces) you want to read then send to 7197 e.g. xklam8n thecapital1 sent to 7197 means send me the chapter 1 of the book 'The Capital City' etc When readers order for your book you are credited part of the earnings.

*Terms and Conditions apply. Subscribers on all networks are eligible. Winners will be contacted by 0772312160.

Contact Information:

For submissions: submit here

Website: http://www.xklam8n.com/

Announcement of winner: 11 July 2011

The shortlist for the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing has been announced today (Monday 9 May). The Caine Prize, widely known as the ‘African Booker’ and regarded as Africa’s leading literary award, is now in its twelfth year. The chair of judges, the award-winning Libyan novelist Hisham Matar, said "choosing a shortlist out of nearly 130 entries was not an easy task – one made more difficult and yet more enjoyable by the varied tastes of the judges – but we have arrived at a list of five stories that excel in quality and ambition. Together they represent a portrait of today’s African short story: its wit and intelligence, its concerns and preoccupations.”

Selected from 126 entries from 17 African countries, the shortlist is once again a reflection of the Caine Prize’s pan-African reach. The winner of the £10,000 prize is to be announced at a celebratory dinner at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, on Monday 11 July.

The 2011 shortlist comprises:

· NoViolet Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) ‘Hitting Budapest’ from ‘The Boston Review’ Vol 35, no. 6 - Nov/Dec 2010

· 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

As always the stories are available to read online on our website.

Joining Hisham on the judging panel this year are 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 of taking 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 Uganda’s Monica Arac de Nyeko, for ‘Jambula Tree’ from ‘African Love Stories’, Ayebia Clarke Publishing, 2006, and Binyavanga Wainaina, from Kenya, who founded the well-known literary magazine, Kwani?, to publish work by new Kenyan writers.

This year the shortlisted writers will be reading from their work at the Royal Over-Seas League on Friday, 8 July at 7pm and at the London Literature Festival at the Southbank Centre, on Sunday, 10 July at 7pm.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: jenny@raittorr.co.uk

Website: http://www.caineprize.com/

Deadline: 10 March 2012

This panel seeks papers that examine/theorize LGBTIQ issues in African literatures and film. Africa, here, includes North and Sub-Saharan Africa. Especially welcome are papers that explore how recent political events and controversies—in Cameroon, Malawi, Uganda, Nigeria and Ghana—produce new sites of reading or demand new agendas for deciphering the complexities of African “queer” s3xualities.

Please send 300-word abstracts and CV to Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi at: taiwo.adetunji.osinubi(at)umontreal.ca by March 10.

For list of possible topices, click here.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For inquiries: taiwo.adetunji.osinubi(at)umontreal.ca

For submissions: taiwo.adetunji.osinubi(at)umontreal.ca

Website: http://www.mla.org/convention