Graham Mort

The Guardian Review of Books comments that it "perfectly exhibits the blend of formal scrupulousness, sensory evocation and intellectual rigour that has shaped his reputation".

By 2003, the project had developed into a major British Council/Lancaster University partnership involving Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa and Malawi.

Crossing Borders employed a team of 25 writing mentors throughout the UK and reached more than 300 African writers, bringing a budget of £375,000 to the University for this Third Mission activity.

The mentoring project was laid down in April 2006, but the website remains active and publishes a quarterly online magazine of new African writing.

It was piloted in Uganda in autumn 2006, when 8 Crossing Borders writers took part in workshop and online mentoring to produce short stories for radio.

Each whole programme was mounted on the Crossing Borders site as podcasts[permanent dead link‍] intended to reach a global audience.