Tag: Gloria Mwaniga

  • Isele Prizes 2024 winners announced.

    Isele Prizes 2024 winners announced.

    Gloria Mwaniga, Alex Leslie, and Erinola Daranijo won in their categories at the Isele Prizes 2024; the announcement was made on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. The Isele Prizes were founded to celebrate the best of short stories, poetry, and essays by writers published in the Ukamaka Olisakwe founded Isele Magazine in 2022. They are split…

  • Gloria Mwaniga for Global Story of the Month on October 29.

    Gloria Mwaniga for Global Story of the Month on October 29.

    Gloria Mwaniga is this month’s featured guest at the Global Story of the Month at the Alliance Française Nairobi on Saturday, October 29, 2022. The event, which is free, starts at 2 pm. Global Story of the Month is a project where young writers get to meet and interact with those who are already established…

  • The Miles Morland Scholarship 2017 shortlist announced

    The Miles Morland Scholarship 2017 shortlist announced

    The Miles Morland Foundation has announced the shortlist of 21 names for the 2017 Morland Writing Scholarships. The Morland Writing Scholarship is an annual award given to African writers to enable them to work on a manuscript over a year without worrying about an income. Writers awarded a fiction scholarship will each receive £18,000, paid…

  • The ladies’ Fresh Paint 2 anthology is here

    The ladies’ Fresh Paint 2 anthology is here

    Fresh Paint II is the second anthology of poems and short stories by Kenyan women done as a partnership between Goethe-Institut Kenya and AMKA. The anthology includes the writing of Nduta Waweru, Linda Musita, Maimouna Jallow, Consolata Mutua, and Gloria Mwaniga. The anthology was launched with an event at the Goethe Institut in Nairobi on…