Hilda Twongyeirwe

Hilda Twongyeirwe
Twongyeirwe at a Public Reading at the Femrite regional residence for African women writers
Born	Hilda Twongyeirwe Kabale, Uganda
Occupation	Editor, writer
Nationality	Ugandan
Alma mater	Makerere University
Genre	Fiction, poetry
Notable works	Fina the Dancer

Hilda Twongyeirwe is a Ugandan writer and editor. For ten years, she taught English language and literature in secondary school before she retired to do development work in 2003. She is an editor, a published author of short stories and poetry, and a recipient of a Certificate of Recognition (2008) from the National Book Trust of Uganda for her children's book, Fina the Dancer. She is currently the coordinator of FEMRITE, an organisation she participated in founding in 1995. She has edited fiction and creative nonfiction works, the most recent ones being I Dare to Say: African Women Share Their Stories of Hope and Survival (2012) and Taboo? Voices of Women on Female Genital Mutilation (2013).

Twongyeirwe was born in Kabale district, south-west Uganda, in Kacerere near Lake Bunyonyi. She graduated with an honours degree in social sciences and a master's degree in public administration and management from Makerere University.

She has been a member of FEMRITE since its inception,joining while still a student at Makerere University. She is currently the coordinator of FEMRITE. She has edited fiction and creative nonfiction works, the most recent ones being I Dare to Say: African Women Share Their Stories of Hope and Survival (2012) and Taboo? Voices of Women on Female Genital Mutilation (2013). She has taken part in a number of projects by FEMRITE over the years, to promote reading and writing, especially in secondary and primary schools.

Hilda has published a children's book, Fina the Dancer (2007), which was awarded a certificate of recognition as an outstanding piece of literature for children, and other books in Runyankole Rukiga for primary one and two. Her poetry has appeared in various journals and magazines, including "The Threshold by the Nile", in the Poster Poetry Project anthology. She has published a number of stories with FEMRITE: "Becoming a Woman" in 1998, "Headlines" in 2001, "The Pumpkin Seed" in Pumpkin Seeds, and many more.

She was a mentor in the 2013 writivism workshop. Her story "Baking the National Cake" was published in October 2013 as part of the Words Without Borders project of work by women writing in indigenous African languages.