Writers of Zimbabwe   Writers of Zimbabwe - Your words are power! Bringing together the best literary talent from Zimbabwe   Search this site... Search for   in    All Topics Announcements Book Reviews Essays Features Fiction News Poetry      Login/ Register Home · Sections · Links · Your Account · Submit Your Work · Most Popular · Forums   Navigation ·   Home ·   Diary ·   Feedback ·   Forums ·   Polls ·   Sections ·   Submissions Archive ·   Submit Your Work ·   Web Links ·   Your Account New References Here are the latest entries in our reference section: ·   Mabasa, Ignatius T. ·   Musariri, Blessing ·   Ashley, Adrian ·   Hove, Chenjerai ·   Chinodya, Shimmer ·   Dangarembga, Tsitsi ·   Mungoshi, Charles ·   Chirikure, Chirikure ·   Vera, Yvonne You can find more reference terms Here Tell a Friend Tell a friend about this website and help us to grow. Simply click here and send them a short message. Welcome to Writers of Zimbabwe! Your words are power! Join our community of writers young and old and improve your writing skills. Please look around and if you'd like us to let us add anything more, let us know . Help us to make this the most happening writers site on the continent by telling as many people as possible about us. Thank you! We look forward to reading your work. Are full stops placed inside or outside quotation marks By Tim North, www.BetterWritingSkills.com Consider the following sentence: One meaning of vis-a-vis is "in relation to". Should the full stop be inside the closing quotation mark or outside it Well, in US English, the full stop goes inside the closing quotation mark in this sentence. In British English, it is placed outside. This is just the tip of the iceberg, however. The placement of punctuation relative to a closing quotation mark is surprisingly complex. What's worse, the rules for US English are quite different to those for British English. Here then are both sets of rules: Posted by fungai on Monday, August 08 @ 10:56:38 EDT (55 reads) ( Read More... | 6989 bytes more | comments | Score: 0) Poetry- Love : O, Sweet Butterfly O, Sweet Butterfly --- How many times have we made love in the labyrinth of time and space Yet, you still desert me like a church fart Posted by Chief on Monday, August 08 @ 10:09:59 EDT (52 reads) ( Read More... | 444 bytes more | 1 comment | Poetry- Love | Score: 3.5) 'Phases' by Fungai Machirori My senses atrophy in silence, Roaring, rotating to a bland full stop, The lines halt - The bloody carnage and wreck of severed thoughts are torched to soft ash. Posted by fungi on Monday, August 08 @ 10:01:48 EDT (56 reads) ( Read More... | 469 bytes more | 2 comments | Score: 3) News : Call for papers: Zimbabwean Fiction across the Languages We invite abstracts and papers for a book on critical appreciation of published Zimbabwean fiction written in any genre (novels, short stories, drama, poetry, soapies, etc). The published creative works that are to be critiqued and appreciated should have been written in any Zimbabwean language such as English, Shona, Ndebele, Kalanga, etc. The critical articles must be written in English, and quotations of creative works not originally published in English must be first presented in the original language and translations presented as footnotes. Selected papers shall be compiled into a book where it will be possible to appreciate the diversity of Zimbabwean fiction from different sub-cultures, literary genres and languages. Most books that are critical and appreciative of Zimbabwean fiction tend to focus on works published in a particular language (and at times works in a particular genre) alone. The projected compilation intends to transcend these categorizations in order to establish the commonalities and differences across creative fiction from different languages, genres, sub-cultures, etc. Posted by fungai on Monday, August 08 @ 09:21:26 EDT (39 reads) ( Read More... | 1967 bytes more | comments | News | Score: 0) Poetry : Blac