Category Archives: Femrite
- 27-5-2013
How Uganda’s female writers found their voice
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Beeatrice Lamwaka, one of the earliest Crossing Borders participants, has been featured in an Observer article, “How Uganda’s female writers found their voice,” by Elizabeth Day, 26th May 2013, recounting how “a pioneering foundation called Femwrite has helped a new generation of Ugandan women tell – or at least record – often harrowing stories of Continue Reading
- 15-9-2012
Sticking to My Footsteps
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eBook now Available! Sticking to my Footsteps is an anthology of new writing, written and edited by members of FEMRITE Women Writers Association in Kampala, Uganda. The director of the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research, Graham Mort, visited Kampala in July 2011 to take part in FEMRITE’s Writing Uganda festival and returned in April Continue Reading
- 6-7-2011
Ugandan Writer Shortlisted for Caine Prize
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Ugandan writer Beatrice Lamwaka has been shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing – one of the leading prizes open to African writers. Beatrice has participated in both the British Council ‘Crossing Borders’ programme, directed by Professor Graham Mort from Lancaster. and the recent ‘Lancaster/Uganda Friends Writing Project’ organised by the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research and funded Continue Reading
- 23-5-2010
Conference 2010: ‘Africa: Cultural Translations’
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The ‘Africa: Cultural Translations’ conference took place from 21-22 May 2010 at Lancaster University. It was organised by Lancaster University African Studies Group in association with the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research. One of the main events on the afternoon of the first day way a reading by Goretti Kyomuhendo and a discussion with Continue Reading
- 20-4-2010
Friends Funding for Lancaster/Uganda Women’s Writing Link
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Dr Graham Mort has been successful in his bid to the Lancaster University Friends Programme with a proposal for linking Ugandan women to postgraduate mentors here in the UK, who will deliver monthly online tutorials in response to their work. The project will enable PhD students to widen their teaching experience and will be an invaluable Continue Reading