Pen Avenue Malawi

Pen Avenue will be trekking through Zomba Plateau on Saturday, 15 April 2017. The team comprising of poets, essayists, fictionists, non-fictionists, scriptwriters and everything writing will challenge themselves to produce a digital anthology of writing inspired by the landscape of Zomba plateau and the beauty beneath it. The following will be a part of the Excursion: Tamanda Kanjaye Tamanda is a writer and poet currently pursuing a Journalism degree at The Polytechnic (University of Malawi). In her early teens she began being interested in the concepts of death, human misery, broken souls, self -destruction and the idea of possible salvation and redemption. She then decided to romanticize such ideas into her poetry before branching them out into prose. She is now comfortable writing general young adult fiction in which she implores a soft but sharp writing style that best appeals to human emotions. She hopes to one day imitate and exceed the writing style Markus Zusak us...

Pen Avenue will be holding a Writing Excursion on Saturday, 15 April, 2017. The Excursion will take place on Zomba Mountain, from morning to late afternoon. It is expected that from this Excursion, a digital anthology will be produced.  Pen Avenue is, therefore, calling for applications from Malawian writers aged 25 and below for them to attend the Excursion. Interested applicants should apply with the following: A sample of their own writing (in any genre) with the word limit of 2000 words for any form of prose and not more than 2 pages for poetry and not more than 10 pages for a play or its snippet (all in 12pt Times New Roman, 1.5 spacing) An essay of not more than 500 words explaining why they would like to attend the Excursion and what they expect to write from the Excursion  A brief bio of themselves Complete applications should be emailed to penavenue3@gmail.com before 11:59 pm on Friday, 31 March, 2017.  Pen Avenue will provide the following to succ...