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Africa Beyond is the place to find out about African arts and culture in the UK and beyond. The website, launched in March 2007, incorporates the BBC's existing site Africa on your Street. The Africa Beyond website highlights African film, theatre, dance, literature, and visual arts; and Africa on your Street features gig listings, CD reviews, interviews and music news, from Afrobeat to Hiplife to Mbalax. The site’s aim is to become a hub for information, discussion and exploration of African arts, beyond the geographical borders of the continent, and beyond any preconceptions about Africa and its culture.
African Poetry Chatroom is a blog displaying mbizotheblackpoet news profiles, articles, poetry, perfomance, photos and discussions and as well his links with international, local and regional media. The poetry articulate a number of issues from political, social and cultural matters. http://www.poetrychatroom.blogspot.com/
The African Writers Abroad Centre of International PEN (the world association of writers), is a membership organisation for writers of African descent who live outside the continent. www.africanwritersabroad.org.uk
Established in 2009, African Writers Trust is a non-profit entity which seeks to coordinate and bring together African writers in the Diaspora and writers on the continent to promote sharing of skills and other resources, and to foster knowledge and learning between the two groups. AWT is governed by an Advisory Board and administered by the Director. It is assisted by a working group and volunteers. It is operational in London, United Kingdom and in Kampala, Uganda, where it’s registered as a company limited by guarantee. AWT’s activities and programmes are sponsored through donor funding, friends, philanthropists and supporters of African writing. http://www.africanwriterstrust.org/
Portal to news and information for readers, writers, teachers, students and literature professionals. http://literature.britishcouncil.org
Botsotso is a grouping of poets, writers and artists who wish to both create art as well as to generate the means for its public exposure and appreciation. We speak particularly of art that is of and about the varied cultures and life experiences of people in South Africa as expressed in the many languages spoken and written in our country. Committed to a proliferation of styles and a multiplicity of themes and characters, Botsotso works with interaction: the different elements of the South African mosaic colliding, synthesizing - affected both by social forces and the individual's uniqueness. http://www.botsotso.org.za/
Promotes contemporary and innovative literature and creative writing from the UK to audiences around the world through the British Council's global network. In 2004 the department is working with more than 400 authors and academics in over 70 countries as part of showcases, workshops, festivals, conferences, tours, residencies and virtual projects. The department works extensively with artists and cultural organisations, building skills, capacity and cultural awareness, creating access to audiences and markets, and promoting international collaboration and creative exchange. Features Crossing Borders. www.britishcouncil.org/arts-literature.htm
Literature Matters the British Council Literature team's newsletter that became an e-zine in January 2004. It is now published online twice a year with news about British Council events and publications including articles and interviews with authors. The latest issue is now live online.
www.britishcouncil.org/home/arts-literature-literature-matters.htm
The British Council’s home page. It is here that you can access information on learning, arts and culture, science, society and current development projects. In the Arts and Culture section you will find information on music, drama, dance, film and digital projects, literature and art, architecture and design. In the Literature section you will find further information on the Crossing Borders project. www.britishcouncil.org
Scotland's leading journal of ideas, the Edinburgh Review publishes essays, short fiction, poetry and reviews aimed at an educated reading public with an interest in critical thought. Since its inception in 1802, the magazine has balanced a strong Scottish focus with a keen interest in international intellectual currents.
http://www.englit.ed.ac.uk/edinburghreview/index.html
Girl child creativity is a project designed to mitigate underrepresentation and unbalanced participation of young female writers/poets in areas of creative writing ,literature,literacy and poetry perfomances development , it further enhances the ability of the girlchild to develop herself mentally, the motto is freedom of mental media air waves for cummunity development , a creative nation is a developed nation. http://www.girlchildcreativity.blogspot.com/
Kalahari Peoples Network provides a virtual space for networking and exchange of information among contemporary Kalahari communities and individuals throughout Southern Africa. On it, the San and other indigenous Kalahari dwellers speak in their own voices to each other and to interested people outside their communities.
For almost 200 years, information about Kalahari peoples came only from anthropologists, linguists, archaeologists, settlers and others who encountered Southern Africa’s indigenous peoples during the times of colonization.
On www.kahaharipeoples.net, remote communities can speak to each other and dialogue with the outside world on all facets of their cultures.
Future cultural events and training opportunities can be posted and discussions can be held about local and world issues that impact San lives. Finally, this site also provides a resource for educators and students around the world who wish to access reliable information about the Kalahari and its peoples.
Koroga is another African story, a story of what we see and how we see, of meetings and transformations, of looking and seeing, of seeing and writing, of speaking into being the worlds we know, and those we are always imagining. http://koroga.tumblr.com/
Founded by Kenyan writers, Kwani is a literary online journal providing a forum for writers to explore Kenyan identity. Also has a discussions page, reviews of current African literature, articles and a calendar of current events taking place in Africa and the UK. www.kwani.org
"Moving Worlds is a biannual international magazine, and is a forum for creative work as well as criticism, literary as well as visual texts. Each issue highlights a particular theme and also carries material of general interest. The journal is internationally refereed and is published by Moving Worlds at the School of English, University of Leeds, UK." http://www.movingworlds.net/
New Europe Writers began in a café on Nowogrodzska where a Canadian-Polish journalist, with a connection to Radio Free Europe, ran a café as a cover for his catering business.
Open to the needs of the scribbler, Stash owned the only bar not to close when the G-whiz summit boarded-out the centre of town ahead of the global protesters. ‘Come and have a drink after the riot’ was painted across the plate glass.
There were no riots. But a poet, a playwright and a writer went and had a drink anyway. And what emerged was a creative partnership which continues to grow. http://new21.wordpress.com/
"Poems for... supplies small poem-posters for public display - in class rooms, libraries, waiting rooms ...
Poems for... used to be called Poems for the Waiting Room. But since 2004, we have been producing bilingual poems in acknowledgement and celebration of the nation's diversity and this has lengthened the project's reach. The poem-posters remain applicable to healthcare venues and continue to enrich many of them. But they are now going further afield as well - to embassies, schools, libraries...
Poems for...is one of several ideas and initiatives promoted by the charity Hyphen-21
The project worker for Poems for... is Rogan Wolf, who did the writing for this site."
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Poetry International Web is a worldwide forum for poetry on the internet. PIW brings you news, essays, interviews and discussion, but, first and foremost, hundreds of poems by acclaimed modern poets from all around the world, both in the original language and in English translation.
http://www.poetryinternational.org/
Poetry Kit is a major resource site designed to help new and developing poets by providing a single source of information and discussion on the craft of writing poetry.
www.poetrykit.org
renaissance one is an agency that represents international artists and produces tours, events and education projects. It works across cultures and artistic practices, focusing on word-based projects which evoke an appreciation of poetry, prose and the spoken word:
"renaissance one...curates, programmes and produces spoken word, poetry and fiction-based events. As we don’t have a fixed venue, we collaborate actively with organisations and individuals around the UK to create literature or word-based projects. Many of our projects combine words, music and the visual arts. Through organising tours and shows and working with artistically and culturally diverse writers we present the best in UK contemporary writing; from time to time we bring artists over to the UK for events, and for touring." http://renaissanceone.com/
A literary magazine for new writing. www.sablelitmag.org/writingcourses.html
NEW: A new issue of Shipwrights is now online at: http://www.shipwrightsreview.com/
Shipwrights is Malmö University’s new English language creative writing and literary review. The online magazine’s broadest goal is to publish the best new writing available in the genres of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. More specifically, the review’s mission is to provide a new writing outlet for the global second-language English writing community. As the number of second-language English speakers (and writers) in the world increases exponentially, the journal intends to be a showcase for English writing from the new “edges” of the English-speaking world, the non-Anglophone territories.
Shipwrights will be the home of the annual Conrad-Nabokov Prize, awarded to the most promising second-language English writer of fiction or poetry who submits work each year. The journal will also feature a commentary section that will include critical writing on issues important to the journal’s profile, such as second-language writing, migration, globalization, and cultural theory.
Shipwrights will be published online each spring and fall. The inaugural issue will appear in March 2008. More information, including detailed instructions on how to submit work, can be found at www.mah.se/shipwrights. Questions and comments about Shipwrights should be sent to shipwrights@mah.se. Issue # 1 of Shipwrights is now online! The editors are accepting submissions for the autumn issue through June 15th. See the site for details.
The Caine Prize for African Writers is an annual award for a short story by an African writer published in English anywhere in the world. This site also has information on creative writing workshops that are taking place throughout Africa, and links to other sites of interest to African writers. www.caineprize.com
The Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa
The prize takes place every two years and its aim is to promote and celebrate unpublished African writing.
The Poetry Society is a dynamic arts organisation that exists to help poets and poetry to thrive in the UK. This site offers information on publications, competitions, events and projects, and also specialist advice and information. www.poetrysociety.org.uk
The mission of The Sankofa Center for African Dance & Culture is to utilize traditional African dance, music, and drama to preventatively educate youths & adults about HIV/AIDS, and provide free counseling, rapid HIV/AIDS testing, & life-saving drugs for people living with HIV/AIDS. We strive to use the realms of the arts as a tool to foster open communication, accurate knowledge, and promote healthy behavior change to protect, empower, and bring togetherness to our human family in the face of this world-wide disease. UCLA has been a great supporter of The Sankofa Center’s arts-based HIV/AIDS education & prevention volunteer program. However, non-UCLA students , residents of Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, and all others from our international community can also learn more about out volunteer opportunities in Africa. See our News & Events and click here to download the press release containing further details of this exciting internship.
This website was designed to promote writing in Zimbabwe and to give Zimbabwean writers a platform to come together and share experiences.
www.writers.co.zw
Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research, County College, Lancaster University, LA1 4YD, UK
