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The purpose of the cybermining exercise is to identify the different types of writing you can do online. They will range naturally from short fiction, to opinion editorials and technical writing. I hope you enjoy and learn as much as I have. If you like these posts comment on them onsite, but also come back and tell us what you think. You could also nominate a blog post for next month’s Blog Posts Expo which will be on June 20th. Alright, here we go!

And now the long wait is over and you have voted.

The winner of the Storymoja Urban Narratives[May] – Peugeot 504 writing contest is:

Long before the car in front of you became a Toyota, there was the Peugeot 504; the unofficial emblem of Kenya’s 80’s bourgeoisie.

Please read these stories, comment on them for the author’s benefit, and then vote for them. The winner will receive Kshs 500 airtime and a copy of A Peculiar Kenyan by Sunny Bindra.

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…

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 had intended to make a little note about writing Kenyan Romance sometime next month. But then I stumbled upon an absolutely delightful little gem which shall be part of this week’s exhibition. So here we go…

It is my belief that some of you dear Storymoja Readers, know a lot more than I do on this topic. So I beg of you to exercise patience, correct me where I am wrong, and guide me in my discovery. As for everyone else, I hope you enjoy this journey as much as I know I will. Grab your gear, we are going up!

There was a joke, and I hated it; that if you wanted to hide money from a black Kenyan, you’d just have to hide it in a book. I grew up on books. My mother made sure I had books. My brothers loved to read. By the time I was 7 I wanted to read [...]

I’ll begin this by acknowledging comments made by a few of you readers on last week’s blog.

Earlier in the post, while explaining the birth of Urban Fiction, I had noted this: The premise of this genre of writing was based on the fact that anyone outside of the culture depicted cannot accurately describe the people, settings, and events experienced by people in that culture.