Trust Mutekwa akabvira mugore ra1994 achiruka nganoyorwa nenhetembo. Kudetemba kwake kwakamupinza muzvirongwa zvemakwikwi nemitambo mikuru muZimbabwe nedzimwe nyika ndokubva azivikanwa nerokuti Ticha Muzavazi.  Zvinyorwa zvake zvinosanganisira mabhuku anoti Ticha Muzavazi’s Nyunga Mbira Handbook, (2017) nerimwe rinonzi The Voice from a Maize Field, (2023). Ane nhetembo makumi nemakumi dzakadzidzwa muvhunzo dzepamusoro muzvikoro mumabhuku anoti Ngoma Yokwedu, Jakwara Renhetembo, Mudengu Munei naShoko Harivhikwi.

Mune mamwe mabasa ake, Trust mudzidzisi wemandiriri kuvana vasingaoni. Akadzidzira zveurairidzi kuMorgenster Teachers’ College, kuUnited College of Education nekuUniversity of Zimbabwe. Akaparura kudzidziswa kwemaComputer kuvana vasingaoni munyika yeZimbabwe ndokuvamba mutambo weSpecial Schools Arts Festival.

Trust akazodzidzira zveSmart Cities, Climate Resilience and Sustainable Practices paLund University kuSweden.

Akapindawo muchirongwa cheTeaching Excellence and Achievement Fellowship paGeorge Mason University kuUnited States of America. Akave murairidzi wekutanga munyika yeZimbabwe kupinda muTop 50 yemakwikwi eGlobal Teacher Prize mugore ra2020.

Panguva yekutsikiswa kwebhuku rino, Trust akatumwa nenyika yake kuRwanda uko kwaanodzidzisa Art & Craft, Mbira, Marimba neSpecial Needs Education paNyamata Teachers’ College.

Julius Masimba Musodza was born in Harare, Zimbabwe (then Salisbury, Rhodesia) in 1976, the eldest of five children. He was educated at Avondale Primary School, Harare and St Mary Magdalene’s High School, Nyanga before enrolling at the Vision Valley Film, Video & Television Institute in Harare. In 2002, he moved to the United Kingdom.

Musodza’s short fiction has been published in anthologies and periodicals around the world and online, such as AfroSFv3, Jungle Jim, Omenana, Savage Planets, Agbowo, Lolwe and others. His MunaHacha Maive Nei? is the first definitive science-fiction novel in his native ChiShona language. It was shortlisted in the Book of the Year Category at the Zimbabwe Music & Arts Awards in 2011, which saw him walk away with the Writer of the Year Award. In 2016, Shavi Rechikadzi was voted Best Fiction Book of the Year. In the same year, Masimba Musodza was listed among the 10 Best Writers From Zimbabwe by Culture Trip. He was listed in Geoff Ryman’s 100 African Writers Of Speculative Fiction. He has also written an article for the British Fantasy & Science Fiction Association’s Vector magazine. He is a member of the Free Speech Union, British Fantasy Society and Don’t Divide Us, and has participated in the annual Festival of the Battle For Ideas, which brings together a diverse section of Britain’s foremost thinkers and commentators.

Musodza is also involved in the film and TV industry, penning screenplays for independent productions in both England and Zimbabwe, and appearing in background and minor roles in major productions such as Beowulf: Return To The Shieldlands, Vera, the pilot for the BBC4 show Make! Craft Britain, the short film I Need Help (Macaw Media Productions, 2018) and TV commercials. He has also performed in local theatre, notably the Arc Performers Group which put on sketch shows at the Arc Theatre in Stockton.

www.masimbamusodza.uk

@musodza

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Elton Ndudzo is a twenty-one year old Zimbabwean writer, currently residing in Chitungwiza. Elton was a finalist in the inaugural Carnelian Heart Short Story competition in 2024, and his short story, ‘In the fold’, appears in the competition anthology: Things You Cannot Say With Your Mouth. Charwe is his debut novel, and it evidences his interest in African history and culture. He is also a tech-enthusiast, currently pursuing a degree in Computer Engineering at Chinhoyi University.

Nomsa Hazel Mlambo is the co-founder of Bhala Writers, a community that seeks to champion, inspire, elevate and connect African writers. She is passionate about seeing writing become a viable career option for her fellow Africans. Creative at heart, Nomsa enjoys singing, playing the guitar, dancing, and songwriting. When she isnʼt trying to find rhymes for her next childrenʼs book, she can be found with her nose in a book, MCing an event or encouraging someone to live out their God-given purpose.

Mapfumo Clement Chihota is a Zimbabwean poet and short-story writer. His creative works have been published Zimbabwe, South Africa, the USA and the United Kingdom in anthologies or journals such as No More Plastic Balls and other Stories (co-edited with Robert Muponde); Writing Still; Writing Now; New Coin Poetry; Tripwire Journal of Poetics; The Warwick Review and Where to Now? Short Stories from Zimbabwe. Mapfumo currently teaches into Community and Human Services programs at Federation University in Melbourne, Australia.

David Chasumba is an award-winning Zimbabwean Author and Poet. His debut short story collection, The Mad Man on First Street and Other Short Stories, won the NAMA (National Arts Merit Award) in 2023 for Outstanding First Creative Published Work in Zimbabwe. His short stories have been published in Kalahari Review and in five anthologies; Zimbolicious 8, an anthology of Zimbabwean Literature and Arts; A Bundle of Joy and Other Short Stories from Africa; Momaya Short Story Review: (Treasure) (2015); Small Worlds anthology- University of Brighton Literature Society (2014) and Reflections anthology- University of Brighton Literature Society (2015).

His short story, Crossing the Rubicon, was longlisted for the Fish Publishing Short Story Competition (2013-14). David has published poems in Kalahari Review, in British Haiku Society anthology (2023), and in Ipikai Poetry Journal, including Issue 5 in memory of Dambudzo Marechera. David holds two MA degrees in Media and Cultural Studies and Social Work from University of Sussex and Canterbury Christ Church University respectively.

David is passionate about diversity in writing and publishing, and he is a member of Writing Our Legacy. David lives in Bexhill on sea, East Sussex England. X: @davidchasumba22

Dzikamayi Chando was born and raised in Gweru, Zimbabwe. Some of his works appear in several online literary publications and he sits on a chest of unpublished poetry written over many years. He loves ice cream and still considers Pluto a proper planet.

Matose was born in a Shangane family on 27 October 1968 as Josefa Chauke. His father was a Reverend of the Free Methodist Church of United States of America. His mother suffered from schizophrenia, forcing his father to marry a second wife.

After years herding cattle as a boy, Matose went to school in 1978 aged 10 at Gozonya in Hippo Valley Estates. It is at this time that upon obtaining a birth certificate, he was renamed Joseph Matose, which enabled him to enrol for Grade 1. His date of birth was also reduced to 26 November 1970 to enable him to be accepted as within the acceptable age.
This arrangement further facilitated payment of school fees directly from his guardian’s wages who was a labourer in the Estate. His name was Salane Mathosi.
He later went to Chibwedziva Secondary School south of Chiredzi Town near the border with Mozambique between 1994 and 1987, learning beneath trees and roofless classrooms. It is at this school that Joseph met with University students employed as teachers during their semester holidays, who nurtured his interest in reading and writing.

Mentored by University of Zimbabwe scholars, Matose managed to discover his creative mind, thereby winning many rewards in composition-writing competitions at the school and adjacent schools.

In order to further nurture his creativity, Matose was introduced to the works of author Dambudzo Marechera and other Africa writers such as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Chinua Achebe, Okot p’Bitek, Charles Mungoshi and many more. However, Dambudzo remains his inspiration to this day.

While enjoying the lime-light of creativity and winning awards and the invaluable tutelage from University of Zimbabwe Scholars one of whom stood out prominent as Nkosana Hleruka, Matose was expelled from school for what was said to be “violent behaviour, beer-drinking and resistance to school authorities.”
Fortunately, a cousin-brother schooled at Idaho University in the States of America, recently come home with a Bachelor’s degree in Literature and a Master’s degree in Divinity, now Principal of a newly opened Boarding School near the border with South Africa, called Malipati High, heard of Joseph’s fate and reasons thereof. He quickly arranged that “the wretch” be delivered to his custody for better control and utility of “his writing skills.”
1990. Matose was then housed in a room turned into a library, affording him the opportunity to read throughout the night. From here he continued writing poetry and prose to the delight of his cousin-brother who enlisted his skill to help translate a novel entitled: ‘The Mourned One’ into Shangane. However, the project did not come to fruition as the cousin brother passed on a few years later, after parting ways. Matose had suddenly left for South Africa in search for employment.
While working on the Farms, especially ZZ2 group of Farms in the Low Veld of South Africa, Matose continued to write poetry whose leitmotif was love, nostalgia, pain and suffering. At one point, he was employed as a cleaner at a Library in Petersburg where a chance meeting with University Students rekindled his love for reading and composing. Many a time he wrote poems and sold to students to earn a pittance as he tramped at a sleazy Railway Station with nowhere to go.
Yet, in between the sporadic forays into South Africa, Matose in 1995, managed to visit Rusape where Dambudzo Marechera grew up. He chanced the surviving young brother Nhamo Marechera, a veteran of the Liberation Struggle who was an heir to the cache of classic books left by Dambudzo. This was pure serendipity. Matose read and read. Chaucer, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Alan Poe, Virgil, Milton, Alighieri, Khayyam, Propertius. Poets and Philosophers of renown. Many more books were bestowed to Matose by Nhamo as a gesture of friendship. Until today the gifts are safely kept as invaluable possessions.

This interaction with Nhamo ended after a period of twelve months when he, like his brother Dambudzo, passed on from what looked like an excessive indulgence in alcohol while staying at Mandeya Township, on the banks of Rusape Dam, less that 5km from the rural home where the Marecheras lived. This untimely death disrupted the pending collaboration in a book entitled ‘The Diary of Holidays’. The project fizzled out, robbing Matose of poems he had left in his partner’s custody awaiting compilation into a manuscript.

The remaining Rusape renditions will be collected into a book entitled: Rusapwe!
Having had a young wife and a baby at a tender age of 23, Matose decided to settle down averse to searching for elusive employment opportunities in South Africa. He then joined a Security Company as a Security Guard in 1996.
Gifted in the art of writing, he worked his way up the ladder, becoming a Security Manager in a short space of time.

Matose who lives in Kadoma with wife Portia and five Children, one of whom is an international Water Colour Artist, is still employed as a Manager, Farmer, Writer and a struggling entrepreneur.

He writes poetry, short stories and novellas in the English Language.

Jon Lunn was born in London in 1961 and still lives there. He completed a doctorate in African history at the University of Oxford in 1988. Since then, he has been an academic, researcher and activist, working for organisations ranging from Amnesty International to the UK Foreign Office, from the London School of Economics to the House of Commons Library, He has now turned his hand to writing a novel.

Kudzai Mhangwa lives and writes from his home in Harare, Zimbabwe. He writes poetry, plays, short stories and essays. He is the winner of the 2021 Intwasa Short Story Prize. Moments in the Private Room is his first collection of short stories.

Austin Kaluba was born in Northern Zambia and was an editor for the Sunday Times of Zambia before being appointed as a diplomat to the United Kingdom, where he worked at the Zambia High Commission in London and studied Creative Writing at the University of Oxford Department for continuing education.

Drawing on the author’s international experience, this collection of short stories represents a rich and varied vision of the tension between African experience in a largely “post-colonial” world, both within Africa and the diaspora. In a mood reminiscent of Alex La Guma’s A Walk in the Night, Samuel Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners or V.S Naipaul’s Miguel Street the collection pulls the reader into the lives of its characters as though they were taken by the hand on a walk down a street that is in equal measures familiar and strange. With a rich variety of narrators and situations, Mensah’s London Blues and Other Stories has many twists and moments of surprise.

Vice Nganga was born on in Gweru in Zimbabwe. He attended six schools from primary to high school in Hwange, Gweru, Mberengwa and Gokwe. After school, he worked as a newspaper reporter in Zimbabwe and South Africa, then as a manager in several retail outlets in both countries before venturing into his own projects that he currently manages. Vice writes in Shona and English, and Once Upon a Time is his debut novel.

Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya is the author of Izinyawo Zayizolo (2016), the award-winning Zal’Abantu Ziy’Ebantwini (2022), and Portrait of Emlanjeni (2023).

There is no doubt that Tsitsi’s profession as a town planner has allowed her to create stories with care, designing worlds with the ease and effortlessness of a tour guide. The result of such careful planning are stories that allow readers to not only read, but also experience the worlds she designs.

Memory Chirere akapinda mudariro renhetembo muna 1994 nenhetembo dzake dziri mumuunganidzwa unonzi, Tipeiwo Dariro. Bhuku iri rakaverengwa zvakanyanya muzvikoro zveZimbabwe. Akazotevera nebhuku renhetembo dzake oga rinonzi, Bhuku Risina Basa: Nekuti Rakanyorwa Masikati, rinove rakawana mubairo mukuru wemuZimbabwe weNational Arts Merit Award wa2014. Ikozvino adzoka zvakare nebhuku rino renhetembo rinonzi Shamhu Yezera Renyu. Chirere anowanzonyorawo nyaya pfupi, dzimwe dzacho dziri munaNomore Plastic Balls (1999), A Roof to Repair (2000), Writing Still (2003) nemunaCreatures Great and Small (2005). Akanyorazve mabhuku enyaya pfupi dzake oga anoti, Somewhere in This Country (2006), Tudikidiki (2007) na Toriro and His Goats (2010).

Memory Chirere ane blog rake rinonzi KwaChirere, rinowanikwa pakero iyi, padandemutande: http://www.memorychirere.blogspot.com. Parizvino ari paUniversity of Zimbabwe muHarare apo anodzidzisa zvidzidzo zveLiterature neCreative Writing.

C.M. Elliott was born in the UK, educated in Australia and has worked in the safari industry in Zimbabwe for many years. She took up writing in 2010. Sibanda and the Night Adder is her fourth novel. Also by C.M. Elliott:

Sibanda and the Rainbird
Sibanda and the Black Sparrow Hawk
Sibanda and the Death’s Head Moth

Marshal Muhaga was born in Bindura and raised in Shamva, Zimbabwe and holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Sakarya in Türkiye. He believes that poetry can change the world and wishes to inspire and empower young people through his writing.

Muhaga is the author of Blueprint from The Dictator Factory and a football fanatic who finds fun in photography.

Pauline Magosvongwe is a Zimbabwean writer who grew up during the colonial era. She published her first book at the age of 76. Her memoir, The Crocodile River, takes the reader to the early 1940s, when her parents were still young, and the adventures and hardships they went through. It focuses on the highs and lows of ordinary lives before and after the independence of Zimbabwe, her own difficult life, and how things got better at a later stage.

Shingi Mavima is a poet, and writer hailing from Zimbabwe and currently residing in Toledo Ohio.

Mavima has published two poetry collections, Homeward Bound and Mirage of Days Old, as well as one autobiographical novel, Pashena.
When he is not writing creatively, Mavima is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Toledo. He specialises in contemporary Southern African history with a focus on the colonial and postcolonial periods, with additional scholarly interests in African literature and popular culture.

Stephen Mushamba akazvarirwa kuMazowe paHenderson Research Institute mugore ra1974. Vakadzidza paHenderson Primary School vakazoita zvidzidzo zveSecondary paMorris High School, Murehwa mugore ra1991. Akashanda paHarare Institute of Technology (HIT), Gweru Polytechnical College neUniversity of Zimbabwe saLibrarian. Parizvino anoita zvekuchera goridhe kuKadoma. Akanyora mabhuku anoti Mavanga Orudo (Advanced Level Set Book 2017 to 2019), Simbiyamudhara (Shona novel 2014), The Mbare Gangsters (novel 2015).

Marial Awendit is a South Sudanese poet, essayist and songwriter, widely published in various literary magazines and anthologies.

He is the author of:
The poetry chapbook, The Night Does Not Drown Us, Babishai-Niwe Poetry Foundation
His debut poetry collection, Keeping the Sun Secret, Mwanaka Media and Publishing Ltd.

Marial won the 2016 South Sudan Youth Talent Award for the category of Best Poet
and the 2018 Babishai-Niwe Poetry Award.

A member of the royal Khumalo clan from Matabeleland, Thembe Khumalo is a Zimbabwean-born storyteller. She was first published as a columnist in NewsDay, at the time the country’s largest independent newspaper, in a column called Local Drummer. She went on to write Southern Sister, another weekly column for The Southern Eye. During the COVID-19 pandemic she released a collection of meditations as an e-booklet called Words for Work. She is currently working on her first novel, due to be published in 2022. Words and Other Weapons is her first compilation in print.

A brand strategist and personal branding coach, Thembe has, over the years produced large volumes of content on the subjects of corporate communication, personal branding and brand strategy, including hosting a pan-African podcast called Brand to Build on behalf of her consulting firm Brandbuilder Africa.

Born at Mtshabezi Mission in rural Matabeleland, Thembe attended the Dominican Convent in Bulawayo and now lives in Harare with her husband and two teenage daughters. She holds a BA in Media Studies and an MBA from Africa Leadership University.  

Tafadzwa Chiwanza is a writer and an auditor with Deloitte. His work has been published in This Is Africa, The Herald, NewsDay, The Standard, NewsHawks and other newspapers. He is also the author of No Bird is Singing Now? (2020).