Tag: Mara Menzies

  • Sigana International Storytellers Festival 2023 for Mombasa

    Sigana International Storytellers Festival 2023 for Mombasa

    The Sigana International Storytellers Festival will run in Mombasa, Kenya from June 5 – 9, 2023. The Sigana International Storytelling Festival provides Kenyan audiences and lovers of the age-old sacred art of storytelling the rare opportunity to experience both homegrown and international performances. The festival, which first ran in 2009, is a creation of zamaleoACT…

  • Mara Menzies wins at Scotland’s National Book Awards 2022.

    Mara Menzies wins at Scotland’s National Book Awards 2022.

    Mara Menzies’s Blood and Gold was revealed to be a winner at Scotland’s National Book Awards on Thursday, December 8, 2022. Scotland’s National Book Awards were founded by the Saltire Society to recognise books by “living authors of Scottish descent or residing in Scotland,” or that deal with “the work or life of a Scot…

  • Mara Menzies on Scotland’s National Book Awards 2022 shortlist

    Mara Menzies on Scotland’s National Book Awards 2022 shortlist

    Mara Menzies’s Blood and Gold is on the shortlist for the Saltire Society’s Scotland’s National Book Awards announced today Monday, November 13, 2022. The Saltire Society’s Scotland’s National Book Awards were founded to recognise books that are either by “living authors of Scottish descent or residing in Scotland,” or which deal with “the work or…

  • Storymoja Festival 2017 set for Nairobi

    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…