About(-prologue)

Mbizo Chirasha is  the founder of the Writing Ukraine Prize (2022-23), UNESCO-RILA Affiliate Artist (University of Glasgow, School of Education, Scotland).2020 Poet of Residence at the Fictional Café (International literary culture Writers Space).2019 IHRAF Pan Writivism/African Fellow .2020 free-Speech Fellow at PEN -Germany Writers in Exile Program. Resident Coordinator at All Africa Live Poetry Symposium (100tpc, USA, global).Festival Poet at Poesia de Medellin( Columbia), Guest Writer  at University of Glasgow Creative Writing Programme(Sept,2020). Guest Speaker at SpokenWordOonline(Paris).2019 live literature hub Producer at Sotambe Film Arts Festival (Kitwe, Zambia). 2015Jury President at Shungunamutitima Film Festival (Livingstone, Zambia).2009 Poet in Residence at ICACD (Accra, Ghana). 2009 Fellow at UNESCO-Photo Novel Intensive Training (Tanzania).2011 United States Embassy, Harare Guest Poet at World Poetry Day (Harare, Zimbabwe).2007 Producer/Coordinator of This is Artist Artist in Residence Project (Goethe-Zentrum, Harare) 2006 United Nations Tribute to Kofi Annan Poet .2003 ZIBF ,100 Best Books Young literary/writing delegate to Goteborg Book Fair (Sweden).

Chirasha is the Publisher of the Time of the Poet Republic.  Curator of WOMAWORDS Literary Press. Editor in Chief at Brave Voices Poetry Journal.  Chief Blogger at Porcupine-Quill blog(wixsite). Founder/Curator at AfricanWritersCaravan. Author of MbizoChirasha (AfricanWilliamBlake)blog journal. Mbizo Chirasha was the Creative Director of Girlchild Creativity Project and Urban Colleges Writers Prize.

Author of A Letter to the President(Mwanaka Media,Zimbabwe),
Pilgrims of Zame(FootPrint,Malawi). Co-Authored Whispering Woes of Ganges and Zambezi(Cyberpress),
Curated/Co-Edited Corpses of Unity, Second Name of the Earth is Peace(Anti-war collection,USA) , Co-edited Bilingual digital Anthololgy Street Voices (, Germany ), Edited
Voices of Africa: A Call for freedom Anthology( USA) and Disgrace-land(Kindle collection)

African Contributor /African Writing Associate to more than 500 places(online/print) at Four Spaces(Greece) Demer Press (Holland). World Poetry Almanac (Taiwan), Cultural Daily (USA),One ghana One Voice(Ghana),Poesia de -Medellin(Columbia), gramnet(Scotland) Monk Arts and Soul Mag (UK). Bezine.Com(USA). FamAsiaMag (UK), Blackwell Pamphlet of Poetry (Oxford school of poetry), Ditch Poetry (Canada), WordCityliteraryJournal (Canada, global), the Evergreen Review (USA). Ovi Mag( Finland),DiogenPlus( Turkey), Ink Sweat and Tears (UK), The Poet Mag (UK), Spill Words (USA), Litnet (South Africa), Slipnet literary journal (SouthAfrica). Sentinel (UK), Poetry London (UK), Poesis.si (Slovenia), Atunis galatika (Belgium), New Coin (South Africa), Ihraf Publishes (USA), Diasporan online (Spain), Poetry Bulawayo (Zimbabwe), Zimbolicious (Zimbabwe), the Zimbabwean (Zimbabwe) and more

Chirasha works as a Live Literature Producer,Creative Interventionist(NGOS), Arts for Human Rights and Free-Speech Fellowships ,Anthologist ,Literary Arts Activism Diplomatie, Writivism Projects Curator, Visiting, Editor at Large, African Writing Associate, Visiting Writer and Poet in Residence.

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