The Miles Morland Foundation is pleased to announce that the 2019 Morland Writing Scholarships for African writers opened for entries on Sunday 30th June. The deadline for submissions is Monday 30th September. For all information on how to apply, please go to www.milesmorlandfoundation.com . The Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship The MMF annually awards a small
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To support the rapidly growing African publishing industry, the International Publishers Association (IPA) and the Kenya Publishers Association (KPA) have partnered to host a continent-wide platform for sectoral innovation. This year’s seminar, themed Africa Rising: Realising Africa’s Potential as a Global Publishing Leader in the 21st Century, builds on discussions from the ground-breaking event held
African Writers Conference, organized by African Development Trust, has extended the deadline for submission of flash fiction, short stories, and children’s by two weeks. If you have not yet submitted, please do.
Online publishing is the way to go these days: unless one is a prophet of doom and sees an Internet Armageddon where the entire World Wide Web will be totally wiped out. Any writer, or publisher, without any of their work out there on the Internet must be the joke of the 21st Century. Online
Every other day, a neophyte writer contacts us asking about how we will protect their works against piracy. Our answer is always the same: we don’t offer anti-piracy guarantee to their works. There are many ways of protecting books, and one of them is DRM for digital books. We are yet to see a book