Tag: Billy Kahora
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Review Wednesday: A review of Billy Kahora’s “The Cape Cod Bicycle War And Other Stories.”
Book: The Cape Cod Bicycle War And Other Stories Author: Billy Kahora Publisher: Huza Press Genre: Fiction/Short stories Number of pages: 303 Publication year: 2019 Billy Kahora’s The Cape Cod Bicycle War And Other Stories is a collection of eleven short stories written over the last decade and a half set across Kenya, South Africa and…
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Billy Kahora’s “The Cape Cod Bicycle War And Other Stories” launches in Nairobi.
Billy Kahora’s long-awaited short story collection The Cape Cod Bicycle War And Other Stories launched at Pawa254 in Nairobi, Kenya on August 1, 2019. Billy Kahora, whose short stories have been twice shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing, is the writer of the nonfiction title The True Story of David Munyakei. He has…
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Mubanga Kalimamukwento, Foday Mannah on UK’s Bristol Short Story Prize 2019 shortlist.
Mubanga Kalimamukwento and Foday Mannah. are the two Africans on the Bristol Short Story Prize 2019 shortlist announced on July 24, 2019. The Bristol Short Story Prize is an international writing competition founded in 2007 by the editors of the quarterly cultural magazine Bristol Review of Books. The prize publishes a short story anthology full…
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Billy Kahora’s “The Cape Cod Bicycle War” for Africa Writes Bristol debut.
Billy Kahora’s long-awaited short story collection The Cape Cod Bicycle War And Other Stories makes its official world debut at Africa Writes Bristol on June 28, 2019. Billy Kahora is familiar with many followers of the African literary space having worked for nearly a decade for Kenya’s leading literary publisher Kwani Trust, editing seven issues…
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Storymoja Festival 2017 set for Nairobi
An epic running of the Storymoja Festival 2017 is set for September 27 – October 1 in Nairobi, Kenya. The festival theme this year is “Black Peace.” The Storymoja Festival, founded by Storymoja Publishers in 2007, is one of the most important literary festivals on the African continent today. It was started with a small…
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Rasna Warah new book “UNsilenced” launches at Goethe Nairobi
Rasna Warah’s new nonfiction book Unsilenced launched to a packed audience at Goethe Nairobi on Wednesday October 26th 2016. Rasna Warah who worked for the UN for a long time is a columnist with the Daily Nation. She has three nonfiction titles to her name the first of which is Triple Heritage: A Journey to…
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Shadreck Chikoti’s Imagine Africa 500 anthology out on April 30
The Imagine Africa 500 anthology featuring some of the continent’s leading names in speculative fiction this month. It will make its online debut on April 30. In November last year, I spoke about a workshop hosted by the Story Club in Malawi was facilitated by Billy Kahora, Jackee Batanda and Beatrice Lamwaka. Those at the workshop were…
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Caine Prize Workshop 2016 in Zambia concludes
The annual Caine Prize Workshop ended yesterday at the Chaminuka Lodge near Lusaka, Zambia. The participants included previous winners of the Caine Prize, those shortlisted as well as some who would be considered future stars. The writers at the workshop included 2015 Caine Prize winner, Namwali Serpell (Zambia), 2014 winner Okwiri Oduor (Kenya), 2013 winner…
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Cat Hellisen wins Short Story Day Africa Prize 2015 #AkeFest2015
Cat Hellisen is the winner of the Short Story Day Africa Prize for Short Fiction 2015. The winner has just been announced at the ongoing Ake Art & Book Festival here in Abeokuta, Nigeria by prize judge Abubakar Adam Ibrahim. The South African writer who won over the judging panel with her story “The Worme…
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Short Story Day Africa 2015 longlist announced
Short Story Day Africa has announced the longlist of this year’s anthology. The stories from writers from across the continent explored the theme “Water” in interesting and unexpected ways, and both the readers and the SSDA team and editors felt the collection to be exceptional in scope and skill. The twenty-one stories will now be…
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Short Story Day Africa announces 2015 anthology judges
A few days ago I spoke about the call out made for the new Short Story Day anthology for 2015 that will focus on Water. More details have emerged about this project which is sponsored by Worldreader, Bookslive.co.za and AllAboutWriting.com The organisers of the event have now announced the judges for those who submit their work…
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Etisalat Prize Winner 2014 Songeziwe Mahlangu in Nairobi readings
South African writer Songeziwe Mahlangu, author of Penumbra and the winner of the Etisalat Prize 2014 will be in Nairobi for an afternoon of readings and conversations. The event on Sunday, May 3rd will also feature veteran Kenyan writer, Henry Ole Kulet, Caine prize winner Yvonne Adhiambo Owour, historian Ngala Chome and Kwani Trust Managing…
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Images from the ‘Imagine Africa 500’ workshop in Malawi
The Story Club is an initiative started by Malawian writer Shadreck Chikoti and launched in Lilongwe, Malawi in December 2013. The Club has organised several events since then including live musical performances, a film screening, and talks by writers, filmmakers, and academics. Last week The Story Club in conjunction with Panafrica Publishers, which incidentally Chikoti…
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The Sunday Salon with Noviolet, Jennings and Yewande
The Sunday Salon. It came to us in 2008 as a new space Nairobians could enjoy listening to literature apart from the Kwani Open Mic which had become a bit crazy with the drinking in that gig going into the wee hours of the next morning. In that year, we had writers like Muthoni Garland,…
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Creative Academy lecturer Billy Kahora working on new book.
Billy Kahora is a well known name in the writing circles in Kenya and around the continent. He is known for his many exploits as; a) Writer – non-fiction novella The True Story Of David Munyakei, short story ‘Urban Zoning’ (shortlisted for the Caine prize in 2012). b Editor – of Kwani? b) Movie scriptwriter…