The African Writers Conference is an event conceptualized by the African Writers Development Trust aimed at bringing together writers of African descent to a common platform, building bridges for networking, providing opportunities for writers to promote themselves and their work, and sustaining conversations on the advancement of the collective interests of African writers.
The 2019 African Writers Conference (AWC) will be held in September in Nairobi, Kenya (date and venue to be announced later). The conference will be hosted by the Writers Guild Kenya and is themed “Cultural stereotypes in African Literature: Rewriting the narratives for the 21st Century Reader”. It will feature a keynote speaker from Cameroon and three panelists from Nigeria and Kenya.
The objectives are:
- to provide a gateway for continuous engagement and cross-interaction on culture and its stereotype in African Literature,
- to promote cross-cultural discussions that will lead to the development of literature on the African continent,
- to foster mutual understanding for peaceful co-existence and develop strategies for the development of the African literary space, and
- to identify shared values and how to advance them against our differences.
Features of this conference include a cultural night, interactive sessions, group discussions, networking, the unveiling of the winners of the 2019 African Writers Awards and much more.
The 2019 African Writers Award categories are:
- African Writer of the Year for Short Stories,
- African Writer of the Year for Poetry,
- African Writer of the Year for Flash Fiction, and
- African Writer of the Year for Children’s Literature.
Click Here to go to the African Writers Conference website and submit your work for the award.
