Covert Talent Development Programme 2026: The Ghana Issue

📚🇬🇭Applications are now open for Writing Our Legacy's Covert Talent Development Programme 2026: The Ghana Issue, delivered in partnership with Writers Project of Ghana.

A brilliant opportunity for up to 16 Black, Asian and ethnically diverse/BPOC writers living in Ghana or who are of Ghanaian descent living in the UK to develop their writing through: four online creative writing workshops, editorial feedback & mentoring sessions with the Guest Editors, peer support through a monthly writers’ group and guaranteed publication in Covert Issue 7.

✏️The theme for Covert Literary Magazine Issue 7 is ‘Ghana’. For this issue, we welcome Guest Editors: Martin Egblewogbe (Ghana), Mamle Kabu (Ghana), Derek Owusu (UK) and Zoe Adjonyoh (UK), plus our Editorial Board: Elizabeth Johnson (Ghana), Mamle Kabu (Ghana), Anni Domingo (UK), Akila Richards (UK) and Amy Glass (UK).

As part of this programme you will receive:

🗓 Programme dates: September- December 2026
⏳ Deadline to apply: Wednesday 26 August 2026, 10am BST.
Open to any Black and Global Majority writer living in Ghana, plus writers of Ghanaian descent in the UK. More info and guidelines to apply: https://writingourlegacy.org.uk/whatwedo/covert-talent-development-programme-2026-ghana-issue/

Funded by Beyond Literature Borders, from the British Council and Speaking Volumes, and Writing Our Legacy’s Arts Council England’s National Portfolio Organisation funding.