Cold Bold Winter Words coming up once again!

Cold Bold Winter Words takes place every winter season in Maun, as the name perhaps suggests. The event was birthed June 2014 as an initiative to creatively provide a platform where the local community can interact, in a season where mostly people prefer to be indoors, snuggled up in their bed....

Poetavango Award for Short Fiction (PASF) Announces Winners

 The Poetavango Award for Short Fiction results were announced on our Facebook page on December 30th 2019. The winners for the 2019/2020 award are as follows; 1st Place: Kearoma Mosata for her story ‘When a Woman Bends’. She wins this year’s trophy and P3000. 2nd Place Runner Up: Wame Molefhe for...

Zambian Vanessa Chisakula wins 2019 MIAF War of Word Poetry Slam

As part of the annual Maun International Arts Festival, the War of Word (WOW) Slam contest has been taking place for the past four years. The competition features national and international poets who have been invited to take part in the Maun International Arts Festival. The winner of the slam was...

Poetavango to Host First National Slam Championships

The Poetavango Collective will, in May 2020, introduce and host the first ever national slam competitions. The contest, which is intended to be an annual activity, will feature poets/slammers from across the country. Participants have to be Botswana citizens and should be above 18 years of age. It...