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Fimbo Books

Monday, 07 December 2009 23:31 Administrator Contemporary - News

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East African Community 10th Anniversary Essay Competition

Wednesday, 28 October 2009 13:41 Administrator Contemporary - News

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East African Community 10th Anniversary Essay Competition

The Essay Competition is open to all East African Youth between the ages of 16 and 20 years. Essay Competition entrants are required to write between 1000 and 1500 words on the Topic: Relevance of EAC to the Aspirations of the People of East Africa – Discuss.

The awards to Winners of the Essay Competition will be made as follows:-

Overall Winner, East Africa - JUMUIYA AWARD - $ 1,500

National Winner, Tanzania - EAC UNDUGU AWARD - $ 1000

National Winner, Kenya - EAC UMOJA AWARD - $ 1000

National Winner, Burundi - EAC AMANI AWARD - $ 1000

National Winner, Rwanda - EAC UPENDO AWARD - $ 1000

National Winner, Uganda - EAC MAENDELEO AWARD - $ 1000

Kwani? Short Story Competition

Friday, 16 October 2009 10:39 Administrator Contemporary - News

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Kwani Trust is pleased to announce a deadline extension for its national short story competition titled, ‘The Kenya I Live In’. Though we have received in excess of 400 entries, we feel that we have not done justice to what our original ends were for the competition. This includes reaching certain demographics and geographic locations. We have undertaken a huge outreach initiative to address this. The new competition deadline is now October 26, 2009. Kwani Trust would like to thank all the writers who have, so far ,submitted entries into the competition. We look forward to a successful completion of the process when we announce the winners in December, 2009.

Please note only the dates have changed, the rules and guidelines remain the same.However those who had sent their stories earlier and wish to re-submit are allowed to do so.

• Winner: Ksh. 100,000
• 1st runner up: Ksh. 75,000
• 2nd runner up: Ksh. 50,000

Fall for the Book Festival 21-26 Sept 2009

Friday, 11 September 2009 10:44 Administrator Contemporary - News

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George Mason University, Barnes & Noble, NOVEC, and the Fairfax County Public Library, present the
11th Annual Fall for the Book Festival.

As Fall for the Book begins its second decade, we’re once more hosting events at bookstores, restaurants, retail shops, and schools at all levels of the educational spectrum — middle school, high
school, community college, major university — throughout Northern Virginia, D.C., and Maryland.
In all, we’ll have more programs in more venues and collaboration with more businesses and
organizations than ever before in our history,allowing us to:

• Advance children’s education
• Make literature fun
• Connect readers and authors
• Build community
• Encourage cultural diversity

Attachments:
Fall Book Festival program 2009.pdf

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2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize open for entry

Thursday, 27 August 2009 08:26 Administrator Contemporary - News

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See Press Release Below:
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The 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the global prize for fiction for both established and new writers, has opened for entry. The two categories, for Best Book, worth £10,000 to the overall winner, and Best First Book, worth £5,000 to the overall winner, are open to published writers from across the 53 countries of the Commonwealth.
The Prize, now in its 24th year, celebrates cutting-edge fiction across four regions of the Commonwealth: Africa; Canada and Caribbean; South Asia and Europe and South East Asia and Pacific. Last year more than 350 entries were received with the regional winners emerging from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa and the UK.