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May 15

Call for UGSA Applications 2022

UGANDA TEXTBOOK ACADEMIC AND NON-FICTION AUTHORS ASSOCIATION (UTANA)

UTANA GRANT SCHEME FOR AUTHORS (UGSA) 2022

THIRD CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Uganda Textbook Academic and Non-Fiction Authors Association (UTANA) in partnership with the Norwegian Association of Non-Fiction and Translators Association (NFFO) is implementing a 3 Year project entitled: UTANA Grant Scheme for Authors (UGSA). The scheme supports authors through their writing process. The grant will support authors (who are already in their writing process) to undertake completion of their publication/academic works. It is expected that at the end of the grant, a publication will be ready/available. This is the third round of the competitive grant scheme to benefit authors of academic and general non-fiction works.

Target: Authors of Textbooks, Academic and Non-fiction Works including but not limited to: scholarly works, academic textbooks/ scholarly articles, school textbooks, manuals, biographies/ autobiographies, expository, argumentative, functional, and opinion pieces; Nonfiction essays on art or literature, historical, scientific, technical, or economic writings works of general interest.

Eligibility: If you are currently working on a scholarly or a general non-fiction work and are a member of UTANA, you are eligible to apply. If you are not yet a member of UTANA, you can join at the same time as you submit your application. The grant is intended to provide an average of Three Million (UGX) to be used for an author to take off time for instance, and devote herself or himself to complete the current writing project. The grant will be paid out in portions justified by the applicant’s proposal following a Result Based Financing (RBF) model.

Selection Process: An Independent Selection Committee will assess the applications and select the most deserving. The successfully selected candidates shall be approved by UTANA Executive Board, which shall give the award. There are three main criteria for eligibility: Membership of UTANA (and subscribed to the Writers-authors Investment Club), evidence of a publishable manuscript and justification that the manuscript shall be a publication available in book form (hard or e-book). Non UTANA members should submit their application together with the membership application Click here to access the UTANA membership form. The selection committee aims to offer awards to a wide-ranging group of authors and subjects and shall bear in mind authors writing in rural as well as urban locations. It will also consider authors at all levels of education from the untutored to the highest level. New and upcoming authors are particularly encouraged to apply. Manuscripts/publications in all approved local languages shall be equally considered.

Application forms are available online at https://utanauganda.org. All application should be submitted through the provided UGSA application form Click to access addressed to the Project Coordinator, UTANA Grant Scheme for Authors (UGASA), UTANA, P. O. Box 40277, Kampala, Teachers House,  Room 208, Bombo Road  E-mail: [email protected]. The closing date for applications is 20th July 2022, successful applications will be announced by 30th July 2022.

Membership to UTANA

New membership fee (150,000/=). Includes membership to writers-Authors Investment Club [Click here to access the form for registration]

Existing members to be up to date with their subscriptions to Writers Authors- Investment Club.

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May 01

The Business of Being an Author(The Business of Being an Author)

John Degen is executive director of The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC), and Chair of the International Authors Forum. He is a poet and novelist. His debut novel, The Uninvited Guest, was shortlisted for the 2006 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. His two acclaimed collections of poetry are Animal Life in Bucharest and Killing Things. John writes regularly in national and international media on creator rights and copyright issues. He is the previous Executive Director of the Professional Writers Association of Canada, and was Literature Officer at the Ontario Arts Council between 2008 and 2012. Visit him at jkdegen.com

Bill Harnum is treasurer of the Canadian Copyright Institute. He has worked in scholarly publishing in Canada for 30 years, and is director of publications for the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto. He has served as President of the Association of Canadian Publishers for two terms, and has chaired that organization’s Copyright Committee.

Elisam Magara is an academic and author specialising in Information Science, Records and Archives Management, Information Management and Documentary Heritage. He has also written a number of general motivational works. He is a professor in the Records and Archives Management Department, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. He is Chair of the Uganda Textbook-Academic and Non-Fiction Authors Association (UTANA) and Board Secretary of the National Book Trust of Uganda (NABOTU).

Francisco Romero is a writer and innovator who has focused his life on finding an audience for his work and bringing it to the market. He became his own publisher and then opened a book shop to complete the production process, from the first thought to the reader. After publishing more than 20 books, receiving several awards and the loyalty of his readers, he proved that it is possible for authors to fight for diverse, independent literature.

Maggie Gee OBE is the author of 14 books including The White Family, shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Impac Prize, and a pair of comedies, My Cleaner and My Driver. Her work has been translated into 14 languages. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and has represented writers on the UK Society of Authors Management Committee, the UK Public Lending Right Committee and as the first woman Chair of the Royal Society of Literature. Her latest novel, Virginia Woolf in Manhattan, brings Virginia Woolf back to life in 21st -century New York, where Virginia is shocked by the economics of the modern book trade and has to go to surprising lengths to earn a living.

Maureen Duffy is the author of 34 published works, including poetry, non-fiction, and 16 plays, the most recent being the poetry collection Pictures from an Exhibition. She is a fellow and vice-president of the Royal Society of Literature and a fellow of King’s College London, President of Honour of the British Copyright Council and Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society, and a CISAC gold medallist. She was recently awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of Loughborough and Kent for contributions to literature and equality law reform.