STORYMOJA

The Judges have now made their decisions! And the winners of the Storymoja Hay Festival Poetry Contest titled: This is my Africa are:-

In addition to this contest, I would like to thank one of you for visiting and commenting on our blogs, so if you have ever commented here, please send me your name, and the title of at least one article you commented on, I will throw your name into the Thank You Draw, and you may be the very happy winner of a Season Pass. – See details inside

I thought it might be nice to bring some inspiration from last year’s Storymoja Hay Festival Poetry Contest. Below are the three poems that won that contest.

And here’s your chance to do what you love – write – and win Season Passes (for all 3 days) to the festival, including entry to all workshops of the day.

1. Storymoja Short Story Writing Contest.

2. Storymoja Hay Festival Poetry Writing Contest

Ogutu Joshua Muraya as an actor and storyteller has the gift of so enlivening the imagination as to make the principal subjects of his stories be present in the room…be it an air-headed teenager bewitched by her own beauty..

Allow me to introduce you to the August 2011 poetry exhibition:

1. Blue Sky, Green Grass by Mwikali K
2. Lord my Woman is Talking by Oluoch Madiang’
3. Old Flames by Pascal Mailu
4. Our Neighbour by Namunyu Molenje
5. Revolutionary by Kanjukia Kiyaa
6. Shattered Illusion by Michael Macharia
7. Terminological Inexactitude by Abel Beja Rumba
8. First Time by Tien Moses

People want realism with their fiction; honesty about the darkness in us, hard truth about the universe.

See also the Urban Fiction Writing Contest Entries!

Top on today’s list is a post from the blog Call Me Alien. The Author of the blog is writer, poet, educator and IT techie Serah Njambi.

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Location: Text Book Centre, Nakumatt Junction, Nairobi
Time: Saturday, 23 July 2011 11:00am to 1:00pm

On 16th June 2011, courtesy of Storymoja Publishers and the British Council, approximately 84,300 Kenyans set the national record for “Most people reading out loud from the same text in different locations on the same day.”