Thoughts from Botswana by Lauri Kubuitsile

I'm looking for a few bloggers  who would like to help me with an experiment. I'd especially like bloggers from around Africa (espec...

No matter if you are a freelance magazine article writer or a short story writer, at some point you will need to negotiate a deal. If y...

I'm currently taking an online writing course at the University of Iowa. Each week we watch a video and are given an assignment around t...

I have a quote from Wendell Mayes on my office wall- "You're only willing to succeed to the same degree you're willing to fail....

I'm back home from the Maun International Arts Festival. It's our only literary festival in Botswana with any staying power, so I...

Last weekend the Twitter world erupted after tweets appeared written by  Binyavanga Wainaina about The Caine Prize. I think Binyavanga is ...

I earn quite a bit of my income from South African publishers. The South African government is attempting to institute a policy where one te...

I hear about writers getting writer's block. If I'm in the middle of a project, that usually doesn't happen to me. I might have ...

Everything was set for me to take off for Nairobi next week to attend the Storymoja Festival, but then the air ticket had a problem that cou...

We started our trip at Kuruman and our first stop was the Wonderwerk Cave just outside of the town. It is the oldest site in the world that ...