The Huza Press/Goethe Institut Kigali Writing Residency has released the shortlist for its residency.
The four week residency is 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 literature as a space for opening up conversations about gender, its modes of construction, histories, representation and relationality to power. Its theme was therefore writing gender.
This year’s jury includes author and academic Olumide Popoola, writer and academic Billy Kahora, author and blogger Jochen Konigg, and podcaster and academic Fabienne Imlinger.
Here are the shortlisted writers
- Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
- Cherrie Kandie
- Doreen Anyango
- Eugene Yakubu
- Lauri Kubuitsile
- Maryam Kazeem
- Munira Hussein
- Precious Colette Kemigisha
- Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
- TJ Benson
Those from Germany who will take part in this program are;
- Ann Esswein
- Chrizzi Heinen
- Dominic Wendland
- Julia Host
- Katharina Bendixen
- Kevin Junk
- Nannina Matz
- Sarah Kessler
- Sebastian Stuertz
The winners of the residency will be announced soon. The fellowship starts in September.
Afreecan Read is thrilled to announce that our prose editor Eugene Yakubu is on the shortlist! Congratulations Eugene and other shortlisted writers!
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