Lillian Aujo

Lillian Akampurira Aujo is a Ugandan author. In 2009, she was the winner of the Babishai Niwe (BN) Poetry Foundation's inaugural BN poetry prize. In 2015, she was longlisted for, and won the Inaugural Jalada Prize for Literature for her story "Where pumpkin leaves dwell".

Education She holds an MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) with distinction from the University of East Anglia, where she was a Global Voices Scholar.

Writing Aujo is a member of Femrite. Her works "The Eye of Poetry" and "Getting Nowhere" were published in Suubi, a publication of the African Writers Trust. She attended the Caine Prize workshop 2013, and her story "Red" was published in the anthology A Memory This Size and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2013. Her work has appeared in anthologies by Femrite, "Talking tales" and "Summoning the rains".

Published works

Short stories "Red" in "My big toe", in "Where pumpkin leaves dwell" "Getting Somewhere" in The Suubi Collection (2013)

Poetry "Soft Tonight", in "Soft Tonight", in "Born in these Times" in Bakwa, 2013 "The eye of poetry" in The Suubi Collection (2013) "Fresh Coat of Paint" in the revelatormagazine