STORYMOJA

We apologise for last week’s unplanned and unannounced hiatus on the Storymoja Writers’ Blog.

I’d like to tell you a fabulous story straight out of Criminal Minds: Suspect Behaviour, that involves my very beautiful stalker revealing herself and then promptly kidnapping me, that ends up with me at the bottom of a cliff with a bunch of bruises and hysteria, waiting for the very gorgeous Shemar Moore to rescue me…

So two weeks ago we looked into Novellas, even marked off a few titles. I am sure that after we had talked about it, you went in search of other titles that fit under the Novella Category. Just in case you missed out on that conversation have a look at The Woman Who Waited – Writing Novellas.

So where do you start?

Arterial Network, in association with TeatrNowy in Poland, the National Theatre Studio in London and South Africa’s National Arts Festival and ARTSCAPE Theatre, hereby calls for the submission of scripts by African playwrights living in Africa as part of a project to promote African theatre on the African continent, in Europe and indeed globally.

Freedom has been immortalised in prose, song lyrics, spoken poetry, written poetry, even chants in the middle of Tahrir Square and Tianamen Square, on the streets of Manama, Nairobi, Tehran, Johanesburg, even London, Paris and Buenos Aires.

As you can see, this story needs a little more time to narrate, yet for certain reasons the author chose to make it worth just a few snapshots, rather than a full novel. I personally enjoyed reading it, but perhaps because I found that Vera and I had a lot in common, not less than that she upended every conceivable stereotype presented against her.

So I recently got myself into a conversation about how everyone perceives identity and how it reflects in the way we write. In my head, I see identity as a lot of things. And then there’s the Psych half courses that make you examine everything twice and again…

I thought it would be great to set the mood for this week, by sharing from Claudette Oduor’s (of The Red Bindi at Diwali fame) Why I read – My book Revolution.

And then read this week’s short story submissions…

You are cordially invited to The Premiere Resemble Project Exhibition on March 1st to 15th 2011 at The Talisman Restaurant in Karen. Call 0736365228 for further details.

Contrary to what you may think, this article is NOT about comic books, graphic novels and super hero – super villain universes… My genre of consumption is super hero, super villain comic books with a touch of mystery thrill and science fiction.

Someone thought I should have done the Kenyan Romance piece from last week today, on account of it being Valentine’s Day and all. Probably, I should have. Except I have just one small thing against…