About

Ambrose Musiyiwa has worked as a community media activist, a freelance writer/journalist and a teacher.

He facilitates Conversations with Writers, a blog that presents interviews with writers, publishers and literary activists.

He also facilitates CivicLeicester, a YouTube channel that aims to showcase the talent that the various community groups and individuals living and working in and around Leicester represent.

Currently he is working on another story.

Publications

Short Stories

• "Danfo Driver", Writing Free, Weaver Press, Harare, 2011
• "The Bracelet", Conversations with Writers, February 17, 2010: Click here to read online.
• "Two Dreams", Tripod: The magazine for new writing from the Literature Network, Issue 2, Summer 2007
• "Living on Promises and Credit", Writing Now, Weaver Press, Harare, 2005
• "Diary of an Asylum Seeker" [A work in progress]: Click here to read online.

Journalism [Samples]:

• "Building Bridges: Interview with Gill Buttery", World Press Review, September 14, 2010: Click here to read online.
• "Exposing Rhodesia", OhmyNews International, November 6, 2008: Click here to read online.
• "An Abhorrent Form of Censorship", World Press Review, July 29, 2008: Click here to read online.
• "The Mind of a Working Writer", OhmyNews International, October 10, 2007: Click here to read online.
• "Doris Lessing: Nobel Prize Laureate", OhmyNews International, October 14, 2007: Click here to read online.
• "[Book Review] Mailer and Gibran's alternative gospels", OhmyNews International, July 24, 2007: Click here to read online.
• "Saddam Hussein's Execution is a War Crime", World Press Review, December 31, 2006: Click here to read online.
• "Refugees, Uncertainty and the Absence of Control", World Press Review, November 3, 2006: Click here to read online.
• "Child Trafficking in the UK", OhmyNews International, July 2006, 25: Click here to read online.
• "Britain Undermining Rights of Foreign Prisoners", World Press Review, May 6, 2006: Click here to read online.