STORYMOJA

Dear All,  The British Council is once again joining with the BBC World Service to launch the International Radio Playwriting Competition. The competition is now in its 23rd year and has been incredibly successful in enabling voices from around the world to be heard.  I would like to ask for your assistance in publicizing the competition as widely [...]

Okay, the heat has been getting to me. Heat? I know, if you are reading from Nairobi, you are thinking, what in the world? It’s been cold and wet and the traffic jams and the KPLC project to turn the country into an early Christmas tree has not been helping things. Now you see it, [...]

I asked around. The reasons Kenyan writers shy away from romance stories: Romance stories explore emotions. We are African; apparently someone decided that as Africans talking about emotions is a big no-no. *scratches head*

We encourage submissions of previously unpublished short stories for a proposed international collection about the world to come… whatever it might be… wherever it might be… and whoever will be there, or not, to call our present past.

Jungle Jim is a bi-monthly illustrated print publication, aiming on spreading narrative, imagination and concept-driven African stories.

“What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.” ? Kobayashi Issa

Haiku is a poetic form and a type of poetry from the Japanese culture. Haiku combines form, content, and language in a meaningful, yet compact form.

Creative gifts are not the kind you can turn off when it’s inconvenient. They are not a part of you. They are you. Once you are born a painter or a writer or a musician, it reflects in everything you do. You feel more; words have special kin with you when you are a writer, so their weight bears harder on you.

We want to intertwine profiles of women from all over the world : Japan, France, Russia, Canada, Brazil, Tunisia, etc…and Kenya.
The idea is to show the progress women are making in terms of education and autonomy

9 million people; 9 million stories. 9 million stories about life, work, relationships, challenges, successes, human nature; love, hate, jealousy, friendship, corruption, justice… set against the backdrop of an urban landscape.

So here goes for Urban Fiction:

1. The Principal’s Tragedy by Chrispus Kimaru
2. Murder She Wrought by Linda Musita
3. In the Beginning by Nyambura Kiarie

Our stories tell of our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions to freedom, prosperity, even a little happiness. If we cannot begin to imagine it, then it can never become a reality. And the dream is, I am looking for a good story with some hints of romance, but with the spirit of East Africa: strong, deep, resilient. See the excerpt…