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Mbizo Chirasha is an acclaimed wordsmith, performance poet, widely published poet, and writer. He is the Founder and Creative Director of several creative initiatives and projects, including Young Writers Caravan Project, This is Africa Poetry Night 2006–2008, Zimbabwe Amateur Poetry Conference 2007–2010, African Drums Poetry Festival 2007, GirlChildCreativity Project 2011–Current, and GirlchildTalent Festival 2012.
The widely traveled poet and creative projects consultant is widely published in more than 60 journals, anthologies, websites, reviews, newspapers, blogs, and poetry collections around the world. Some of the countries he has traveled to include Ghana, Sweden, Egypt, Tanzania, South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, and Malawi.
The poet has done a number of official NGO creative interventions and consultancy programs with Social Family Health (Namibia 2009–2010) on an HIV/AIDS Documentary Project, Catholic Relief Services Zimbabwe 2006 on an HIV/AIDS Nutrition Project, and Swedish Cooperative Centre 2006 on Arts against Drought (Zimbabwe).
His writings are published in Canada, Germany, Norway, South Africa, Turkey, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Zimbabwe, America, India, Wales, London, Nigeria, and other countries. He co-authored Whispering Woes of Ganges and Zambezi with Sweta Vikram from New York in 2010. His poetry collection Good Morning President was published by Diaspora Publishers UK in 2011.
From 2001 to 2003, Mbizo was the Membership Drive Officer for the Budding Writers Association of Zimbabwe. In 2000, he was an Outreach Agent for the Zimbabwe Book Development Council, a Delegate of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair to the Gothenburg International Book Fair/Sweden in 2003, a Delegate of Zebra Publishing House, Namibia to the UNESCO Photo Novel Writing Project in Tanzania 2009, Poet in Residence of the International Conference of African Culture Development in Ghana 2009, and Producer/Coordinator of the "I am the Artist" project, an Artist in Residence program by the Zimbabwe Germany Society/Goethe Zentrum.
He holds Writing Skills and Editorial Expertise certificates courtesy of BWAZ/SAIH-Norway. Mbizo works as a poet/writer in residency, Readership and Literacy Culture Development Advocate, Media Relations Strategist, Live Literature Producer, and Creative Projects Consultant.
The widely traveled poet and creative projects consultant is widely published in more than 60 journals, anthologies, websites, reviews, newspapers, blogs, and poetry collections around the world. Some of the countries he has traveled to include Ghana, Sweden, Egypt, Tanzania, South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, and Malawi.
The poet has done a number of official NGO creative interventions and consultancy programs with Social Family Health (Namibia 2009–2010) on an HIV/AIDS Documentary Project, Catholic Relief Services Zimbabwe 2006 on an HIV/AIDS Nutrition Project, and Swedish Cooperative Centre 2006 on Arts against Drought (Zimbabwe).
His writings are published in Canada, Germany, Norway, South Africa, Turkey, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Zimbabwe, America, India, Wales, London, Nigeria, and other countries. He co-authored Whispering Woes of Ganges and Zambezi with Sweta Vikram from New York in 2010. His poetry collection Good Morning President was published by Diaspora Publishers UK in 2011.
From 2001 to 2003, Mbizo was the Membership Drive Officer for the Budding Writers Association of Zimbabwe. In 2000, he was an Outreach Agent for the Zimbabwe Book Development Council, a Delegate of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair to the Gothenburg International Book Fair/Sweden in 2003, a Delegate of Zebra Publishing House, Namibia to the UNESCO Photo Novel Writing Project in Tanzania 2009, Poet in Residence of the International Conference of African Culture Development in Ghana 2009, and Producer/Coordinator of the "I am the Artist" project, an Artist in Residence program by the Zimbabwe Germany Society/Goethe Zentrum.
He holds Writing Skills and Editorial Expertise certificates courtesy of BWAZ/SAIH-Norway. Mbizo works as a poet/writer in residency, Readership and Literacy Culture Development Advocate, Media Relations Strategist, Live Literature Producer, and Creative Projects Consultant.
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