Violet Barungi started writing while she was still a student. Her first short story, "Kefa Kazana", was published in Origin East Africa, an anthology of short stories edited by Prof. David Cook and broadcast on the BBC in 1964. Barungi’s play Over My Dead Body won the British Council New Playwriting Award for Africa and The Middle East in 1997, and has been subsequently anthologized in African Women Playwrights,African Women Playwrights (). edited by Professor Kathy Perkins, an authority on African and African Diaspora theatre."Kathy A. Perkins", Illinois Theatre. Retrieved 28 August 2011.
