{"id":2138,"date":"2013-05-27T12:57:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T12:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2013-05-27T13:07:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T13:07:05","slug":"how-ugandas-female-writers-found-their-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/how-ugandas-female-writers-found-their-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"How Uganda&#8217;s female writers found their voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Beatrice-Lamwaka.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2140\" style=\"margin: 2px 8px;\" alt=\"Beatrice Lamwaka, Ugandan author\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Beatrice-Lamwaka.jpg\" width=\"113\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Beatrice-Lamwaka.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Beatrice-Lamwaka-60x57.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 113px) 100vw, 113px\" \/><\/a>Beeatrice Lamwaka, one of the earliest Crossing Borders participants, has been featured in an <em>Observer<\/em> article, &#8220;How Uganda&#8217;s female writers found their voice,&#8221; by Elizabeth Day, 26th May 2013, recounting how &#8220;a pioneering foundation called Femwrite has helped a new generation of Ugandan women tell \u2013 or at least record \u2013 often harrowing stories of daily life in the country&#8221;: &#8220;Lamwaka,\u00a035, is one of a new wave of Ugandan fiction writers. Her work has been published in several anthologies and she has been nominated for several international prizes. The tale of her brother&#8217;s abduction inspired a powerful short story called &#8220;Butterfly Dreams&#8221;, in which a young girl is abducted by the LRA: &#8216;You caressed your scars as if to tell us what you went through,&#8217; Lamwaka writes. &#8216;We did not ask questions.&#8217;\u00a0Lamwaka says she has only had the confidence to turn her experiences into fiction because of the pioneering work of\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.femriteug.org\/\">Femrite<\/a>, an NGO established in Uganda in 1995 to promote and publish women&#8217;s writing&#8230;&#8221; \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/may\/26\/how-ugandas-women-writers-femwrite\">Read the article<\/a>\u00a0in full.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beeatrice Lamwaka, one of the earliest Crossing Borders participants, has been featured in an Observer article, &#8220;How Uganda&#8217;s female writers found their voice,&#8221; by Elizabeth Day, 26th May 2013, recounting how &#8220;a pioneering foundation called Femwrite has helped a new generation of Ugandan women tell \u2013 or at least record \u2013 often harrowing stories of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/how-ugandas-female-writers-found-their-voice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Uganda&#8217;s female writers found their voice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,61,35,53,31,13,58,41,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crossing-borders","category-education","category-femrite","category-fiction","category-lancaster-university","category-news","category-research","category-short-stories","category-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2139,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions\/2139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}