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Welcome to AWBlogs!
This is the BlogCentre for African Writing Magazine.
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Recent Posts
- African Roar 2012 TOC and Cover release
- AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers: Table of Contents and Cover
- Collected thoughts, excerpts, poems, and insights (mainly from 2011)
- Call for submissions: a new SciFi anthology: AfroSF
- African Roar 2011: An annual anthology of African authors, First Release Now Out!
- How to succesfully irritate an editor
- Why writers need to learn when to shut the f**k up
- ReadSA goes to Pietermaritzburg
- A Must-Read African authors books list
- Seven effective habits of happily unsuccessful people
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Write what you Don’t Know
Posted on February 27, 2011 | 7 CommentsI often hear ‘write what you know’ being espoused to new fiction writers as a golden rule, and for awhile as a new writer I heeded it. Two minutes later, I realised how very poor literature would be if all writers did indeed follow that ‘golden rule’ to the letter, and so promptly abandoned it... -
Call for Submissions: New anthology titled and themed “Remembering Marechera”
Posted on January 13, 2011 | 3 CommentsTo celebrate Dambudzo's posthumous 59th birthday this year I will be putting together an ebook anthology entitled "Remembering Marechera", consisting of essays, reviews, short stories, poems etc. that follow this theme, to be published by StoryTime Publishing. To this end I invite your submissions until the 6th of April 2011. -
The Sound that Rocked the World
Posted on January 8, 2011 | 2 CommentsIt starts as a lone moan into the crisp winter air of a Johannesburg morning, but it is soon answered by another, and another, until the moans become a proud roar that encompasses the entire city. It was the 9th of June 2010 official Vuvuzela Day in South Africa, and at twelve p.m. everyone who owned one blew one, country-wide