The African Writers Abroad Centre, a member centre of International PEN - the world association of writers, is a membership organisation for writers of African descent who live outside the African continent.

One of its main aims is to increase the awareness of African and African diasporic literatures in order to educate and encourage adults and children to appreciate and understand literary and oral works produced by such writers. The aims of AWA are undertaken through the principle activities of arts in education, working with women writers of African descent and through publishing (online).

The face of AWA is its website so that members will be kept informed of AWA and PEN news, new books by writers of African descent, literary events, competitions, calls for submissions and anything else that we find that we feel will be of interest to members and  lovers of African/African diasporic literature.

You can connect with writers of African descent in Britain, the U.S., Caribbean and throughout the world.

We welcome your ideas and your support in order to help AWA achieve its aims.