Call For Submission | Novel Writing Workshop | Mawazo Africa Writing Institute
Mawazo
Africa Writing Institute announces a Call
for Submissions for its first writing workshop: Writing the Novel, led by award-winning author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi. The aim of the
workshop is to provide advanced training and support to African writers who
want to complete full-length novel manuscripts (normally of 30,000 words
minimum). The workshop will be held online and is a free pilot program.
Workshop
Description:
The
workshop will be held online over three months, from January to March 2018, and
will consist of weekly 3-hour group sessions with the facilitator by video
conference. Thereafter, participants will be given two months to revise their
full drafts, and in June 2018, assigned editors to review the revised
manuscripts.
The
workshop will be limited to six African writers selected on the basis of their
draft manuscript excerpts. The workshop will focus on the discussion and
critique of the participants’ writing and the study of craft through the
reading and analysis of published novels. The goal is for participants to
complete their books by the end of the workshop period.
Submission Deadline:
The submission period is from September 10th to
October 31st 2017.
Successful applicants will be informed on December
15th 2017.
Eligibility:
The
workshop is open to:
- Writers based on the African
continent (living in an African country) with at least one parent who is a
citizen of an African country.
- Writers who have not yet
published a full-length novel with an established publisher
(self-published authors may apply).
Submission Guidelines:
Please
read the Call for Submissions and
send the following attached as WORD documents to submissionsmawazo@gmail.com, with the subject
head: Novel Workshop Submission:
- A 30,000-word excerpt of a
draft novel manuscript in English.
- Adult literary or genre
fiction (not children’s fiction).
- Unpublished in book form.
- Include a title page with
name of author, contact address, email and phone number.
- Include name, title and page
number on each page.
- Format: Times New Roman size
12 font, black, 2.0 spacing.
- A synopsis of the novel of
not more than 500 words.
- A biography of not more than
150 words.
- A 500-word rationale on why
you write and why you want to participate in this workshop.
About the facilitator:
Jennifer Nansubuga
Makumbi is a Ugandan novelist and short story writer living in Manchester, UK.
She has a PhD from Lancaster University and has taught Creative Writing and
English for the last ten years at British universities. Her novel, Kintu, won the
Kwani Manuscript Project in 2013. It was published in 2014 in Kenya and the US
and was long-listed for the Etisalat Prize 2014. Jennifer’s short story, Lets Tell This Story Properly won the regional (Africa) and
overall Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2014.
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