5th GAW Literary Awards: Calls for submissions now open LISTEN
The Ghana Association of Writers (GAW) announces the
Call for Submission of qualified literary works from July 2019 to June 2021 for the 5th GAW Literary Awards to be held in November 2021 under the theme, “Honouring Literary Excellence.”
This prestigious literary award was first held in August 1987, thirty years after the founding of GAW, under the leadership of Professor Atukwei Okai.
The Awards was created to celebrate, inspire and promote Ghanaian literary talent, as GAW believes that literature plays a critical role in the development of a nation.
Since its establishment in 1987, the GAW Literary Awards has grown to become the largest literary awards in the country. This year, the awards will recognise writers in twelve categories:
Waterz Yidana s Biography & Interesting facts.
By John Bawa Listen to article
Waterz Yidana is a respected Ghanaian writer. He became known in Ghana when he won the prestigious 40Under40 Awards in Authorship and Creative Writings in 2019, awarded by Xodus Communications. He has been nominated for several awards in Ghana and he won some of them. His first play The Mango Seed won the Efo Kodjo Mawugbe s Prize in Drama in 2019, awarded by the Ghana Association of Writers (GAW).
His second play Madman and the Drunkards which has been adopted by the University of Ghana for postgraduate studies also won the Efo Kodjo Mawugbe s Prize in Drama in 2017, awarded by the Ghana Association of Writers (GAW). The book is in the libraries of Ivy League universities abroad such as: Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, Princeton and many others. The Ghana Education Service (GES) also approved and recommended it for Senior High Schools in Ghana.
Yaa Foriwaa’s Storm in a Teacup Listen to article
I read Dr. Yaa Oforiwaa’s rather nitpicky article captioned “Ghana Association of Writers Crumbles Under NPP’s Agenda” Ghanaweb.com 11/17/20) with a snort, precisely what it deserves. While, indeed, it has every inalienable constitutional right to exist as a cultural and even an academic institution, nevertheless, I have never put any high premium on the institutional and cultural significance of the Ghana Association of Writers (GAW), of which yours truly was briefly a member immediately prior to departing the shores of Ghana in the middle of 1985, when the political wasteland that was the Jerry John Rawlings-led junta of the Provisional National Defense Council (PNDC) was the sole political game and establishment in town, and the country’s judicial system was decidedly and effectively a shambles. So, this entire hocus-hocus circus act and fuss about Chairman Jerry John Rawlings’ being the seminal originator of Fourt