Pen Avenue Malawi

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...

Pen Avenue Malawi is pleased to announce that the short story, Quiet Revolutions , by Angasamale Maliro is the winning story for the Pen Avenue Short Story Writing Competition for University students. The story emerged number one basing on a 70% contribution from the judges towards the final score and a 30% contribution from the wider public. Despite not winning the public opinion vote, Maliro's story emerged top followed by Kennedy Kaula's story, Mlela , and Tamanda Kanjaye's story, For someone I used to know . The other two stories are number 2 and 3 respectively on an aggregate of both popular vote and the judges' decision. For winning the Competition, Maliro will claim the K100,000 cash prize from Pen Avenue. The three winners will also be a part of the Pen Avenue Writing Excursion to take place in Mid-April in Zomba. Details of the Excursion will be published later.