The Caine Prize for African Writing returns to Zimbabwe this month for its 12th annual workshop.
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The workshop will start on March 21 and end on April 2.
This year’s participants include four 2013 shortlisted writers and nine other promising writers from the continent.
According to the Caine prize administrator, Lizzy Attree, it is significant that the workshop will be held in Zimbabwe this year. “The Caine Prize is delighted to be back in Zimbabwe for its 12th workshop,” she said.
“The success of NoViolet Bulawayo has inspired so many writers and we are keen to nurture talent both at the workshop and by visiting local schools.”
Students in the country will be given the opportunity to interact with the writers as they will be visiting local schools.
It will also incorporate two public events in Harare; the first in collaboration with the British Council, which will be held at Harare City Library on April 1 and an open forum entitled Caine Prize Writers in the Supermarket will be held the following day at Tambira hub in the new Meikles Mega Market.
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This forum will include a discussion on contemporary African literature after which there will be opportunities to meet the writers and purchase signed copies of the anthology from AmaBooks.
Beit Trust is supporting the workshop while supplementary funding will be provided by the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, Exotix, Cambria and the British Council.
To get the literary award, writers are required to publish a short story in English (3 000 to 10 000 words).
The first Caine prize was awarded to Leila Aboulela at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair, Harare in the year 2000.
