Uganda, April 6 -- American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer is famously quoted to have said that if a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

In Uganda, the novelists do not appear to be in luck. Not with constantly facing the challenge of publishing their body of work. Charity Karungi Kwatampora is confident her native country is on the cusp of finding a solution to the aforesaid challenge.

The solution, in Karungi's assessment, started to gain traction after poets, who performed under the Lantern Meet of Poets community at Uganda National Cultural Centre (UNNC) in Kampala, ran into a brick wall. After one failed a...