Update
November 20th, 2007
2007 Commonwealth Short Story Competition
Ellen Banda-Aaku of Zambia is the winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Short Story Competition.
Her story 'Sozi's Box' was selected as the best story from the Africa region of the Commonwealth and as the winning story from a shortlist of hundred.
Ellen, a Zambian, was born in the UK in 1965. She grew up in Zambia and later moved to the UK for a while. She has a BA in Public Administration from the University of Zambia and an MA in Finance and Social Policy from the Middlesex University in the UK.
She lived in Ghana for several years and has now moved to Cape Town, South Africa, to study for an MA in Creative Writing. She is the author of a children's book 'Wandi's Little Voice' published by Macmillan UK, which won the Macmillan's Writer's Prize New Writer Award in 2004.
The other winners in the 2007 Commonwealth Short Story Competition include regional winners from Australia and the Pacific (Catherine Palmer from New Zealand for "Bushwoman"), Canada and the Caribbean (Sarah Ceridwen Totton from Canada for "The Man with the Seahorse Head"), Asia (Hema S Raman from India for Where do I belong?") and Europe (Emily Pedder from the UK for "Days Are Long").
Highly commended winners are
Molara Wood of Nigeria for "Trial by Water"
Wame Molefhe of Botswana for "Six Pack"
Linda C Saunders of South Africa for "Never Put Your Hand in a Dog's Mouth"
Eunice Tan of Australia for "In Transit"
Robert Carter of Australia for "Heaven"
Bruce Riddell of Australia for "Do Not Disturb"
David Campbell of Australia for "Zuka's Gift"
Paddy O'Reilly of Australia for "The Passion Fruit"
Ash Rehn of Australia for "Hook Up"
Ditta Sylvester of Jamaica for "The Last Ride"
Katherine Atkinson of St Lucia for "The Village Voice"
Darryl Berger of Canada for "Scissors"
Stewart Boston of Canada "Melnyk Comes Home"
Carin Makuz of Canada for "Kick"
Donna Tremblay of Canada for "Leaving"
Manasi Subramaniam of India for "Arranged Marriage"
Aniruddha Sen of India for "A Win-Win Game"
Ashwini Gowariker of India for "A Good Night's Work"
Rayika Choudri of Pakistan for "Underneath the Sky"
Faye Davies of UK for "The Flying Carpet"
Juliet O'Callaghan of UK for "In Arms"
The judges were writer Donna Daley-Clarke, writer and broadcaster Lucy Hannah, and Nathan Hamilton of the New Writing Partnership.
The Commonwealth Short Story Competition is funded by the Commonwealth Foundation and administered by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association. Details of the 2008 Commonwealth Short Story Competition will be available on the CBA website from February.
Apply Now for 2008-9 CBA MA Bursaries
The Commonwealth Broadcasting Association is offering two bursaries to full-time staff of CBA's member organisations from developing countries in the Commonwealth for post-graduate courses at the prestigious City University and the University of Westminster in London, UK.
The MA Bursaries are in International Journalism at the City University and in broadcast related subjects at the Westminster University. The scholarship is tenable for one year.
The bursaries are part sponsored by the Chevening Programme of the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Westminster and City Universities, International Students House, Goodenough College and the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association.
Please note that airfares of selected bursars will have to be paid by the bursars' organisations and a guarantee to this effect must be given.
Application and reference forms are available from the CBA's website www.cba.org.uk or go to the following link http://www.cba.org.uk/training_and_bursaries/2008-9MABursaries.php
The deadline for sending in applications is 31st January, 2008
Registrations now open for the CBA Bahamas Conference
If you have not received the registration form, please download one from the CBA website. Please register early, and book your plane tickets early, as hotels and planes to the Bahamas are in great demand.
Delegates from China, Brunei, Cameroon, Ghana, India, Maldives, Mozambique, Pakistan, Samoa and Taiwan need Bahamas visas. We are advised that they should be obtained in person at the Bahamas High Commission in London, Miami, New York or Washington, with the applicant filling in a form in advance and emailing copies of their documents. Alternatively, the Bahamas High Commission in London now say that it may be possible to fast track visa applicants through local British High Commissions. For this the CBA needs to send them the names of those using this route, so please let us know. They will then notify the local British High Commission to expect the application.
Also note that visas are now required for transiting in the U.K. for many countries including the following: Bangladesh, Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Uganda.
Ruth Hogarth will be working at the CBA office in London and helping with delegates visa issues, she can be contacted by email at: media@cba.org.uk
The Workshop on "Enhancing your Management Skills" run by CBC is now open to delegates from the Caribbean as well as other areas. This is similar to one run by CBC for CBA members in Barbados a few years ago and is highly recommended. Workshop participants are asked to prepare and submit in advance a brief description of a significant management challenge they are facing, or will soon be facing, and to come prepared to discuss their case with their colleagues and the workshop leaders, on a privileged and confidential basis. The aim is to learn from one another's experiences. The topics may range from personnel to programming, financial to technical, strategic planning, new venture start-up, marketing and communications, regulatory and governmental affairs, career development, interpersonal relations in the workplace, conflict management, and cultural diversity, or other issues of local concern.
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