Book: My Father’s Daughter Author: Hannah Pool Publisher: Penguin Year of publication: 2005 Number of pages: 244 Genre: Non-fiction, memoir So how do you do that big thirty year old transition? It’s a pretty big year for any individual and usually people want to celebrate this period of their lives with something new or unique. […]
So the other day I told you about the Short Story Day Africa anthology dubbed Water. The team behind the initiative have been doing their best to give you some of the best writing with a very very low income. If you imagine that this are the people who have published two Caine Prize nominees […]
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o gave a lecture at the Kenyatta University last Wednesday afternoon to a very large audience of students, faculty and groupies. As you can imagine, this blogger falls squarely in the “groupies” category. It was an inspired lecture. Friendly warning: unlike previous blogs this one is a bit lengthy. The lecture was done […]
As earlier mentioned there was a huge festival in Nakuru which happened last weekend that involved writers and other artists called Storymoja Careerpedia. Here are some of the images from this festival courtesy of our friends from Storymoja.
When the people at Storymoja Publishing started their first festival in 2008 they were trying something new. They wanted to do a festival for book lovers but they didn’t believe that enough of us would leave our local bars to go somewhere to talk about books. The organisation opted to have the “Nyama Choma Festival” […]
The short list for the Writivism Short Story Competition 2015 has been announced by Chika Unigwe the chair of the judging panel. She was helped in her task by Mukoma wa Ngugi, Tendai Huchu, Rachel Zadok and Ainehi Edoro. The stories were read blind, as in they didn’t know who there were reading, and those […]
An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. Lets talk anthologies today; the ones that are newly out and the ones you are a writer can contribute your writing two. Top on the list of the ones you really want to read is Kut compiled by Kenya writer Oduor Jagero and […]
The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is a $50,000 biennial prize funded by a generous endowment from the Neustadt family of Ardmore, Oklahoma, and Dallas. The Neustadt Prize is the first international literary award of its scope to originate in the United States and is one of the very few international prizes for which poets, […]
The long list for the 2015 Writivism Short Story Prize, selected from a record 277 entries, was announced last Friday afternoon. The panel of judges for this years prize chaired by Chika Unigwe comprised of Mukoma wa Ngugi, Tendai Huchu, Ainehi Edoro and Rachel Zadok. They were assisted by many readers who helped whittle down […]
In the last few days, the South African literary community has been having one of those moments. It started when author Thando Mgqolozana announced that he will not be attending festivals where he feels more of an anthropological specimen and less of a literary giant. The man also offered solutions that the local publishing industry […]
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