WSA-C

This is a branch of Writers Space Africa (WSA) aimed at encouraging creative writing amongst writers of Cameroonian descent. Reading & writing are our key words

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𝑾𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝑶𝑵𝑮𝑳𝑰𝑺𝑻 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 2025 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒈 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑾𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔' 𝑨𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 (𝒀𝑬𝑪𝑾𝑨).

Congratulations to all the 20 poets who made it this far.

Special thanks to all the judges

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𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 𝙀𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝘾𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙒𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨' 𝘼𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 (𝙔𝙀𝘾𝙒𝘼)

2025 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝑨𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕

After thoroughly reviewing the longlisted poems multiple times, the judges faced a challenging task in selecting the top 10 finalists.

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Save the dates. 📌

[African Writers Conference @AWC_2026]

Don't miss out on this opportunity to be read all over Africa and win a prize while at it.

We eagerly await your submissions.

#awc2025
#wanjohi
#AWA
#AWTA
#wakini
#lesotho

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📢 YECWA 2025 OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! 🥁✨

We are thrilled to unveil the Young English Cameroonian Writers Award (YECWA) 2025 with the theme: Rethinking Drums!

📌 Prizes:
🥇 1st Prize: 150,000 FCFA
🥈 2nd Prize: 100,000 FCFA
🥉 3rd Prize: 75,000 FCFA

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Ladies and gentlemen, pen lords and pen ladies, wake up! Let's dance to the rhythm of the drums. The 2025 edition of the Young English Cameroonian Writers' Award (YECWA) is around the corner.

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Happy New Year to our amazing literati community!

We started this journey with you and we are glad that with you, 2025 will be a year of many fruitful projects.

Thank you for being a part of our success stories. 🙏🏾

🥂 to open doors 🚪

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Merry Christmas from WSA Cameroon !

Go out there and make every experience a story!

Enjoy your day 🎄🎁🎊

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YECWA 2024 SHORTLIST

The journey has been long, our judges had to read, read and read poems to be able to separate the top best from the best and here we are with the best shortlisted poems of the 22 best received for the longlist.

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O.F.F.I.C.I.A.L

YECWA 2024 LONGLIST

Dear Literati community, after a long wait and a thorough and judicious work done by our judges, we finally have our longlist. We initially needed 20 poems but due to the peculiarity of many, 22 were long-listed.
Congratulations to all!

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𝙈𝙀𝙀𝙏 𝙔𝙀𝘾𝙒𝘼 2024 𝙅𝙐𝘿𝙂𝙀

𝑵𝒔𝒂𝒉 𝑴𝒂𝒍𝒂 (born Kenneth Nsah) PhD, is an award-winning, multilingual poet, writer, children’s author, literary critic, and interdisciplinary scholar from Cameroon Writing in English, French, and Mbessa.

@nsahmala1

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It's the time of the year again!

Our panel of judges is rounding off with the long list.

Who will be this year's winner? 

Stay tuned!

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A heartfelt thank you to our partners and sponsors for making it all possible.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Mark your calendars—AWC 2025 takes us to Lesotho!

See you there!😉

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Deadline fast approaching.

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It's a privilege for me to be working on the British council's Palestine Language for Resilience remote theatre project, Voices Across Worlds.

This is a fantastic project that aims to elevate young voices through personal narratives.

[Akempire @akempire23]

Did you know that,

You can earn up to ($248) - 150 0000 FCFA as a writer??

By participating in the YOUNG ENGLISH CAMEROONIAN WRITERS' AWARD (YECWA) you stand a chance to win this cash prize and a lot more than just cash...

See flyer for details

♻️RT if you find this helpful

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@akempire23 @NnaneNtube We appreciate these beautiful words of yours. We hope for the best. 🙏🏾

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@StephenKube Beautiful 😍

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𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙉𝙂 𝙀𝙉𝙂𝙇𝙄𝙎𝙃 𝘾𝘼𝙈𝙀𝙍𝙊𝙊𝙉𝙄𝘼𝙉 𝙒𝙍𝙄𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙎' 𝘼𝙒𝘼𝙍𝘿 (🇾 🇪 🇨 🇼 🇦 )

𝘿𝙀𝘼𝘿𝙇𝙄𝙉𝙀: 27 🄰🅄🄶🅄🅂🅃 2024.

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YECWA 2024 coming soon...