The organizers of the Ghana Writers Awards (GWA) last week today honoured 24 budding Ghanaian writers.

The honourees were selected from five literary genres; Poetry, Short Story, Literature Blogging, and Spoken Word were celebrated with different prizes at Christ the King Parish Hall in Accra.

This is the second time GWA is organising such an event to award up and coming writers.

The award ceremony was on the theme: "My art my life; creating more opportunities for the youth in the literary art industry in Ghana."

Ghana Writers Awards is a literary prize instituted by some young Ghanaian literary arts compatriots to celebrate and promote Ghanaian writers and literature, particularly unpublished young writers.

The maiden edition of the awards was held on October 29, 2016, at the Marvels Ghana Mini Golf Course in Accra.

Below are some of the categories and the awardees

SHORT STORY CATEGORY

University of Hard Knocks – Philip Arko Ewusi

Liberia Woman – Samuel Owusu Achiaw

Prayer Mongers – Nana Yaa Asantewaa Asante

Faded Beauty –Robert Owuodihia

Incapacitated – Nana Ama Gyemaah Otuahene

The Sound Of Silence – Ruby Yayra Goka

Ruky and Buky – Serebour Badu Prosper.

LITERATURE BLOG CATEGORY

Celestine Nudanu

The Creative Arts Society

POETRY ON GALAMSEY CATEGORY

Dig Deeper – Yvette D. Adusei

The Dying Digger – Kweku Taylor

The Cry of the Land – Maame Akua Akyaa Koduah.

POETRY CATEGORY

The Piano Phone – Logoh Selorm Philip

Gentle Lucifer – Mohammed Shamsu-deen

A Thousand Mystics— Kofi Acquah

A Letter to My Oppressor – Emmanuel Agyei-Poku

That Jesus Name – Adjei-Arthur Bonsue

The Plight of a House Help – Gabla Godwin

Africa of Old – Sacket Anthony Djaba

Little Black Children – Gayi Eyram C.

An Elegy for Awonoor –Abelumkeamah Bertrand Azags

A Toil In The Dark – Kwao Jonathan Tetteh

Of Our Land – Ekow Dodd

The Making of Silence – Nana Karikari Akyempo Prempeh.