Lillian Akampurira Aujo is from Uganda and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from , Mukono. Her work ‘Soft Tonight’ was awarded first prize in
The Beverley Nambozo Poetry award. The writers she admires include, Arundhathi Roy, Zukiswa Wanner,
Rotimi Babatunde, Leila Aboulela,
Lola Shoneyin, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Lillian is currently working on a poetry and short story collection. Elone Natumanya Ainebyoona is a Ugandan development worker who writes for pleasure in Runyakitara as well as in English. She has had published her poetry and her adult and children’s fiction.
Elone has a degree in Adult and Community education from Kyambogo Uinversity,
Uganda.
She is currently a programme officer with the Ugandan National NGO Forum and is compiling a set of poems which she hopes to have published one day. Gloria Kembabazi Muhatane resides in Kampala and is currently studying International relations.
She is inspired by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma,
Gorreti Kyomuhendo, Mildred Barya,
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and other African female writers who have gained international acclaim for their works. More of Gloria’s writings can be found on her blog: fascinated-loria.blogspot.com Davina Kawuma was born in Lusaka and grew up in Kampala.
She used to be afraid of poetry but not anymore. She wishes she had written Godhorse, The Laugher, The Blue Bouquet, Black Mamba Boy,
Desertion, Perfume and House of Leaves. In her perfect world, she would write novellas during her lunch break and publish them before going to bed. Davina has written articles for African Woman and is working on a collection of short stories. Oyet Sisto Ocen is his mother’s third child, but ironically “Sisto” means ‘sixth’ in Italian!
He grew up in northern Uganda and currently resides in Lamwo. Having gained a diploma in Clinical medicine and
Community health, he worked with humanitarian agencies in South Sudan. After witnessing the destruction caused by HIV/AIDS in Uganda he became a medical officer for,
Lamwo Rock Foundation for Children and Youth, a charity which exists to support orphans of the disease.
His favourite writers are Chinua Achebe and Binyavanga Wainaina. He is currently working on a novel about his time in South Sudan. Emmanuel Monychol was born on the outskirts of a town called Tonj in South Sudan.
He has studied in South Sudan and Uganda and is currently taking an MSc in Media management in the United Kingdom. Monychol admires writers such as,
Thomas Hardy, Wole Soyinka, Ngũgĩ Thiong’o, Ousmane Sembène, George Orwell, Chinua Achebe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
Thomas Mofolo, Henry Rider Haggard, Mariama Bâ, Mongo Beti, Okot p’Bitek, Nii Parkes and Goretti Kyomuhendo.
He has been published by the Kwani Trust and Studio Edirisa. Emmanuel devotes most of his free time to writing. Rutangye Crystal Butungi was born in Papua
New Guinea. Her family moved to Uganda when she was eight years old. She has had articles published in Destiny and the Christian Perspective.
Writing creatively had been a hobby for her until she attended the African Writers’ Trust/British Council workshop. She currently works for Moran Publishers (the former Macmillan-Uganda) as the 46 company’s customer and office administrator.
In addition to this, she is the editorial consultant for World of Inspiration and a copy editor for Readers Café Africa. Hellen Nyana grew up in Kampala,
Uganda and as a child, when she was not playing kwepena (dodgeball), she was reading a book. She went to Makerere University where she studied
Literature and Communication skills. Hellen has worked in Uganda’s leading media houses as a freelance writer, sub-editor and columnist. Currently, Hellen works as the group magazine editor for the Madhvani Group and resides in Kakira, Jinja District.
She enjoys the works of Toni Morrison, Jamaica Kincaid, Elizabeth Gilbert and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Harriet Anena is a writer and editor. She was born in Gulu, northern Uganda. She graduated from Makerere
University in 2010 after pursuing a BA in Mass Communication. She is undertaking an MA in Human rights. She works as a sub-editor for the Daily Monitor newspaper.
Harriet discovered her passion for poetry in 2001, after writing her award winning poem – ‘The Plight of the Acholi Child.’ Growing up during the twenty year war in northern Uganda has influenced her early writing. Harriet currently runs a flash fiction blog: anenah.wordpress.com
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