[3] She has worked as a book Production Officer at the East African Literature Bureau (1972–77), senior Book Production Officer at Uganda Literature Bureau (1978–94) and an editor at FEMRITE (1997 to date).
Her play Over My Dead Body (unpublished) won the British Council International New Playwriting Award for Africa and the Middle East region, 1997.
[5] Violet Barungi’s works deal mainly with human relationships, gender issues and education of the girl child.
Over My Dead Body was inspired by her deep concern for girls who are lured into early marriages to rich men before they finish their education.
When things go wrong, and their marriages fail, they find themselves without anything to fall back on.”[2] Baungi is one of the founding members of FEMRITE.