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Rethink Scholarship at Langara is now calling for 2010 entries. We’ll be judging the winner based on…

The fellowship will be accompanied by a series of lectures, readings and other events that highlight the national artistic and political culture of the writer…

A fellowship or tuition scholarship to either an African or Caribbean poet, fiction or nonfiction writer to attend the 2010 conference, August 11-21.

Grist is seeking essays on craft and poetics, in any genre, and personal essays that focus on a specific writer’s work.

Dear East African theatre artists, colleagues and friends:
Greetings from New York City in the U.S.! We are writing to provide you an update on Sundance Institute East Africa activities for the coming season (Year 3 of a five-year initiative). Our plan is to return to East Africa in July 2010.
As you know, Sundance Institute East [...]

To help us celebrate, Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka will judge the 2010 African Performance playwriting competition.

Swedish project to connect with Kenyan women writers
The editors of the Swedish literary journal 00TAL (pronounced “null-null-tahl”), Madeleine Grieve and Kristina Sigunsdotter, will be in Kenya for the first two weeks of December. Joining them will be Henrik Enbohm of the Swedish Writers Union. Their trip is sponsored by the Swedish [...]

The University of San Francisco is seeking a part-time instructor in the Kiswahili language to start in the Fall of 2010.  Classes are likely to meet three times a week.
Candidates should submit a CV and provide proof of experience in language teaching and knowledge of current second-language teaching methodologies; ability to teach introductory and intermediate [...]

International Poetry Competition Castello Di Duino- Deadline December 2009 31th (For schools 2010 January 15th)- Prizegiving Ceremony 2010 March 21th. Organized by the volunteer Association “Poesia e Solidarietà” Trieste

Badilisha! Poetry X-Change would like to invite you and/or your poetry network to submit recordings of their work to BadilishaPoetry.com for podcasting.