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May Have Written 5. “Midnight Mist Missed Me”

II am glancing at my clock Watching the counts Tick. Tock. Time walks By and by and tries to amount The teardrops filling this hourglass balks

Be it sand, be it hands, be it suns in the sky I cannot stop how it moves No matter how much do I try So it goes on and on, just proves To answer just what can do when you cry

Let them fill high and dry, up and up all the while As the sand drains on down below Like snow stacking up in the pile From the fire growing high with bellows Fuel the clock ticking on, all awhile

Pass the time, passed by Aching moments missed Sand and sun turned blue-black skies Watch them fade in morning mist When the questions all arise, wait and ask, which question: why?

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Scrabble

April 13th prompt: Scrabble

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[scriptveterinarian]

Writing an Animal Shelter: Ethical Messes

Well done, you have your animal shelter. Everything’s up and running, the strays are coming in and a few have even been fixed up and adopted. That’s great. But what is a story without conflict?

My well meaning fiend, prepare yourself for great big serve of conflict under the cut.

You have an unadoptable pet. Stinky Bill is big, sheds like a snowstorm, has no distinctive features. He’s a bit irritating but generally unremarkable. He’s aloof and doesn’t care much for people, and unfortunately people don’t seem to care much for him. Other dogs are being adopted left, right and center, but Stinky Bill is never ‘it’ for any adopter and never gets a home. Social media and advertising don’t generate any leads, he’s just never the dog people want. He’s taking up valuable space in the shelter, what do you do with him?

Fluffy is, unfortunately, not as fluffy as she should be. She has severe allergies and a secondary skin infection, and while that is manageable the allergy is a life-long condition that requires medication. Can you ethically adopt out this dog?

Spunky the dog also has bad skin and drinks a huge amount of water each day, because he has Cushing’s syndrome. It’s not immediately lethal if untreated, but a small percentage of dogs will die within 6 months of diagnosis, and the others require expensive daily medication to treat. One alternative is simply not treating. Can you ethically adopt out this dog?

Tigger the Cat was surrendered because he was urinating inappropriately, and the shelter vet subsequently discovered he has diabetes mellitus. This requires twice daily medication by injection and frequent monitoring to keep the cat healthy. He will die without this medication, can you still ethically rehome him?

Puddles the cat also urinates inappropriately, but she has no medical reason why, so is diagnosed with a problem behavior. Stress makes this worse, and being in a shelter full of other cats isn’t helping the situation. How can you find her a forever home?

Good news for once! Somebody wants to adopt Molly, a senior cat at the shelter. Only problem is Molly has lived her entire like with her litter make Mike, and the potential adopter doesn’t want both cats because they already have one. Will you separate this pair of otherwise difficult-to-adopt cats to ensure one of them a home?

It’s kitten season and you are inundated with the cute furry buggers. A barely one year old cat is dumped at the shelter, heavily pregnant. She could pop any day now. Do you spey her now and abort those kittens she carries, or do you let them be born and join your ever growing throng of cats needing homes?

A dog has been surrendered with a compound fracture of the tibia and fibula. It’s a young adult, and while the fracture might heal in a cast, doing so will take 8 weeks and may not heal perfectly. Surgery would be preferred, but for the cost of fixing this one leg you could desex ten other pets. Amputation is cheaper, takes 2 weeks to heal and the general public love tripod dogs, they always get a home. Do you fix the leg or amputate it?

A sick cat has been surrendered in the overnight drop off pens with no note. The shelter initially admits it to quarantine, bu discover it’s not eating. Shelter vets subsequently determine it has an intestinal blockage and needs surgery to live. Do you put this cat through major abdominal surgery, through the expense and recovery time, knowing that adult cats are notoriously difficult to get adopted AND that the people who left it in the overnight pens will probably come back in the next few days/weeks and try to adopt it at a ‘new’ pet?

The shelter has a Ringworm outbreak. This disease will infect humans, and mostly affects the younger, more adoptable animals, though any can be affected. Treatment is time consuming and labor intensive, and the facilities need to be decontaminated. Do you turn animals away while the outbreak is happening? Do you euthanize rather than treat any of the infected animals?

There is one particular dog that keeps presenting to the shelter as a ‘stray’ loose on the road. The owners know where to look for him now, but sometimes are difficult to contact and will leave him in the shelter for a few days, or over the weekend, before coming to collect him. What do you do about this repeat offender?

You’re full. There are more animals waiting to be admitted to the shelter for their chance to find a home. Difficult decisions need to be made. What do you do with these shelter residents: a dog who is shy, a dog who has killed chickens, a dog with severe noise/thunder phobias

You have an oversupply of black cats or tabby cats. Cats are difficult enough to get adopted, but these ‘less pretty’ or ‘unlucky’ cats are having an extra difficult time finding homes. They are being actively overlooked in favor of more striking individuals by the general public. You need to either move them on to homes, or create space in the shelter some other way. What do you do?

Maybe you decided that you’re going to be a no-kill shelter. Maybe you decided that you’re going to thoroughly screen every potential adopter. Maybe you even decided that the ‘unadoptable’ animals, the old, chronically ill and animals with problem behavior, can live in  your animal shelter for the rest of their lives. After all, nobody will care for these poor souls quite like you will. How do you avoid crossing the line from animal shelter to animal hoarder and avoid compromising the welfare of your permanent residents. 

This is just a sample of the decisions animal shelters need to make. They’re more than fluffy settings with cure animals for a romance, there is actually a lot of conflict and heart wrenching decisions that need to be made on a regular basis, which is great for writing.

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The writers breathing fresh life into Ugandan literature

IN 2003 Harriet Anena was a schoolgirl in northern Uganda, a region then at war. The army had ordered people into squalid, crowded camps; insurgents stalked the bush. “We scratch our destiny / from hands of a curtailing fate,” she scribbled, sitting beneath a mango tree. In poetry she found a way to ask questions that children, especially girls, were not supposed to ask. “I started writing for therapy,” she says.

This month Ms Anena recited those lines on the stage of the National Theatre in Kampala, melding drums, dance and poetry in an arresting evocation of love and war. Her performance was the highlight of this year’s Writivism festival, an annual celebration of creative writing, and a testament to the vitality of the country’s small but flourishing literary scene.

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Uganda was once at the fulcrum of African literature. It was at Makerere University, on a hill above Kampala, that giants such as Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o gathered in 1962 for the first African Writers’ Conference, a landmark event held on the eve of independence for many countries. But Uganda would soon sink into an abyss, where power flowed from the gun and not the pen. Literary attention has since moved elsewhere, to cities such as Lagos and Nairobi. These days roadside booksellers more often flog volumes about getting rich or finding Jesus than new works of fiction.

Yet in a place where history and politics weigh heavy, writers are finding fresh voice. A number of trailblazing authors have passed through FEMRITE, a non-profit founded in 1996 to publish and promote women’s writing in Uganda. Writivism, now in its seventh year, publishes an annual anthology and runs a short-story prize. And Ugandan literature can boast of an international superstar in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (pictured), whose debut novel “Kintu” is a multi-generational saga that ties oral myth to a recognisable present. It has won critical plaudits as well as the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction, a major American literary award which offers winners $165,000 to support their writing. Encountering the names of familiar places in a novel “just blew by mind,” says Nyana Kakoma, who runs a small publishing house in Kampala. “I said wait a minute, this is me, this is my life, this is Uganda as I know it.”

Much of this new literature is strikingly political. “The Betrothal”, a play by Joshua Mmali, is a retelling of a multimillion-dollar corruption scandal that he covered as a journalist for the BBC; its performances at the National Theatre in Uganda last year were greeted with whoops of recognition from audiences. Bold writers can draw on the daily chronicles of hypocrisy and clampdowns recorded by a lively press.

Authors are also confronting the countless petty tyrannies of patriarchy. The government frets about skirt lengths; its “pornography control committee” arrests women whose nude pictures have been leaked online. New Ugandan writing often has a feminist bent, exploring themes such as domestic violence or female desire. In “I Bow for my Boobs”, Ms Anena imagines her breasts transformed into a “weapon of destruction” against a drunken husband. She has also produced an unpublished collection of “political erotica”, which she describes as “looking at politics through the body of a woman”.

War, corruption and sexism are not easy topics, and creative expression has its limits. Uganda has an authoritarian government, presided over by an ageing and increasingly testy strongman. This month Stella Nyanzi, an activist and academic, was sentenced to 18 months in prison after posting a poem on Facebook which graphically described the vagina of the president’s mother. For all that, it would be a mistake to assume that Ugandan writing is glum, pious or austere. Young writers are finding humour in struggle, and joy in the everyday. There is the promise of freedom in their work. “Do not miss the chance to groove, my child,” writes Peter Kagayi, a poet, “at the pattering of life’s raindrops.”

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Nigerian Wins 2019 Koffi Addo Prize for Creative Nonfiction Awards

Nigerian Wins 2019 Koffi Addo Prize for Creative Nonfiction Awards

Authors Resoketswe Manenzhe from South Africa and Frances Ogamba from Nigeria have won the 2019 Writivism Short Story and Koffi Addo Prize for Creative Nonfiction awards, respectively.

Manenzhe was recognised for her short story Maserumo and Ogamba was rewarded for The Valley of Memories, at the awards ceremony held on August 18 in Kampala.Both stories capture the power of African spiritualism,…

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Nigerian writer wins African Nonfiction prize

Nigerian writer wins African Nonfiction prize

Resoketswe Manenzhe and Frances Ogamba

Nigeria’s Frances Ogamba, and South Africa’s Resoketswe Manenzhe have been announced as the 2019 Writivism Prizes winners. The Koffi Addo Creative Nonfiction Prize went to Ogamba, for “The Valley of Memories,” and the Writivism Short Story Prize went to Manenzhe, for “Maserumo”.

Commenting on winning, Ogamba wrote on Facebook: “I have no words really, it’s…

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Resoketswe Manenzhe, Frances Ogamba win Writivism awards in Kampala, Uganda.

Resoketswe Manenzhe, Frances Ogamba win Writivism awards in Kampala, Uganda.

Resoketswe Manenzhe and Frances Ogamba are the winners of the Writivism Short Story Prize 2019 and Koffi Addo Creative Nonfiction Prize 2019 announced in Kampala, Uganda on August 18, 2019.

Writivism, the project of writing as activism, was started by Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire, Naseemah Mohamed and Kyomuhendo A Ateenyi of the Centre for African Cultural Excellence in Kampala, Uganda in 2012. The…

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[sueddie]

As part of our Benue Book and Arts Festival in Makurdi on June 20 to 22, 2019:

THREE WORKSHOPS – And you can apply for any or ALL of them! 1. If you are interested in any of the writing workshops (Fiction with Abubakar Adam Ibrahim; Spoken Word with Efe Paul Azino; Poetry with Chuma Nwokolo), kindly send us an email saying why you would want to attend the workshop and then a sample of your work (a piece of fiction not more than 2,000 words for the fiction workshop; a poem that is not longer than 40 lines for poetry; and an audio recording or video for the spoken word workshop) to [email protected]. Kindly ensure you have the subject written as ‘Interest for [Genre] Workshop.’ Don’t forget to include your name, your address and phone number. Those selected for the workshops will have to pay N2,000 for the workshop. 2. If you are interested in the SEVHAGE Literary Competition for those aged 18-35 in poetry, fiction or creative non-fiction and poetry for secondary schools; visit HERE. Competition opens 13th May and closes 26th May, 2019. 3. If you have any inquiries, send an email to [email protected] or call [phone] or [phone]. To know about accommodation or general information on the Benue Book and Arts Festival, please click HERE.

  To register FREE for the FESTIVAL, please click HERE.

Cheers! S. Su’eddie Vershima Agema and Otene Ogwuche

    ABOUT THE WORKSHOP FACILITATORS

Efe Paul Azino

Chuma Nwokolo

Abubakar Adam Ibrahim

Efe Paul Azino is one of Nigeria’s leading spoken word poets. He is a literature promoter and culture influencer. He has also been regarded as one who has “played a pivotal part in lifting the words from the page and giving them life” in the Nigerian spoken word performance space. He is the founder and director of the Lagos International Poetry Festival and the director of poetry at the annual Lagos Book and Art Festival. He has performed in Nigeria and several foreign countries, to great acclaim.

  Chuma Nwokolo is one of Africa’s finest story tellers and poets. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Diaries of a Dead African and more recently, The Extinction of Menai. Chuma is a founder of the BribeCode, a nationwide campaign to eradicate corporate corruption by adopting the bill the Corporate Corruption Act, which he devised and presented to the National Assembly in 2015. He remains a leading voice on the African literary scene.

  Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is a multiple award winning writer and journalist. He has won prizes including the BBC African Performance Prize and the Amatu Braide Prize for Prose. His short story collection, The Whispering Trees (Parresia Publishers, 2012) was long-listed for the Etisalat Prize for Literature in 2014. The title story was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013. His Season of Crimson Blossoms (Parresia Publishers, 2016) won the Nigeria Prize for Literature 2016. Abubakar is a Gabriel Garcia Marquez Fellow (2013) and a Civitella Ranieri Fellow (2015). He was listed by the Hay Festival in the Africa39 list of the most promising sub-Sahara African writers under the age of 40. He judged the Writivism Short Story Prize in 2014 and was a judge for the Short Story Day Africa Prize and the Etisalat Flash Fiction Prize in 2015.

        APPLY FOR LITERARY WORKSHOPS AT THE BENUE BOOK AND ARTS FESTIVAL As part of our Benue Book and Arts Festival in Makurdi on June 20 to 22, 2019:

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2018 Koffi Addo Prize for Creative African Writers- Nonfiction

Nomiantaions are currently been submitted for the 2018 Koffi Addo Prize for Creative African Writers- Nonfiction, all applications for this program mjust be submitted before the deadline and only eligible persons will be considered for this pogram. Type:  Contest/Award Field: Literature/ writing Benefit of Award:  Shortlisted writers may be invited to attend the annual Writivism Festival in…

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THE 2017 KOFFI ADDO PRIZE FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION LONG LIST A good thing happened! I've been longlisted for one of the Writivism prizes! A big thank you to everyone who pushed me to submit, and to those who were with me as I stressed myself out about it, especially EKKO. And thank you, Writivism, for this opportunity! 🙂

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Writivism 2017 Creative Writing Mentoring Program

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Writivism 2017 Creative Writing Mentoring Program

Writivism Literary Initiative is pleased to announce that our 2017 online Mentoring Programme is now open for applications. A project of the Centre for African Cultural Excellence, Writivism identifies, mentors, publishes and promotes emerging African writers resident in any country on the African continent. Now, in its fifth year, the Writivism programme provides online mentoring to emerging…

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lavender

lavender waves in the breeze tall stems with tiny purple flowers bending back and forth scent drifts over fields  and hills  and off roads  down by the beach  in the front yards of homes lined together  where dogs walking jump in it to find their favorite toy lavender scented pillow brings sweet dreams full of peace welcome respite from a weary day gentle reminder of joy and serenity in the dark…

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[mklor14]

Said

This poem is dedicated to our Hmong Grandparents and Parents who left their homeland. 

I’ve never been to the Mountains of Laos,

Never heard the Song of Peace;

But I know that is my father’s favorite song

To sing during  student night out.

In the late…

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Writivism Short Story Prize 2019, Koffi Addo Creative Nonfiction Prize 2019 shortlists announced.

Writivism Short Story Prize 2019, Koffi Addo Creative Nonfiction Prize 2019 shortlists announced.

The shortlists for the Writivism Short Story Prize 2019 and the Koffi Addo Creative Nonfiction Prize 2019 were announced today May 20, 2019.

Writivism, the project of writing as activism, that works to build the capacity for writing on the continent was started in Kampala, Uganda in 2012. The initiative includes the Writivism Short Story Prize and the Koffi Addo Creative Nonfiction Prize both…

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