Tag: Muthoni wa Gichuru
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Erica Sugo Anyadike, Alice Gichuru on Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2019 shortlist.
Erica Sugo Anyadike and Alice Gichuru are on the Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2019 shortlist announced on October 1, 2019. Wasafiri, launched in 1984, is a magazine for international contemporary writing based in the UK. It is renowned for publishing some of the world’s most distinguished writers like Chinua…
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Muthoni wa Gichuru is CODE Burt Prize for African Young Adult Literature Kenya 2018 winner.
Muthoni wa Gichuru was announced as the CODE Burt Prize for African Young Adult Literature Kenya 2018 winner at a ceremony at the Crowne Plaza, Nairobi on September 28, 2018. The Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature is one of the leading literary prizes on the continent focusing on the often ignored area of…
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Hawa Jande Golakai, Muthoni Wa Gichuru star at Literary Crossroads.
Hawa Jande Golakai and Muthoni Wa Gichuru were the featured authors at Literary Crossroads at the Goethe-Institut in Nairobi on June 21, 2018. They were moderated by Anja Bengelstorff. Literary Crossroads is a Goethe-Institut event where writers meet colleagues from all over the continent and from the African diaspora to discuss trends, topics and themes…
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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…
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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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10-year-old Chela roots for libraries (embarrassing our adult selves)
So what were you doing when you were ten years old? On my part, I was trying to figure out how the hell to navigate class four and its joys. These included running around the schoolyard, borrowing Anderson’s bike for a ride, and enjoying that one shilling piece of maize with chilli at the bus…
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Five Africans on Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2015 Shortlist
The good people at the Commonwealth Short Story Prize have announced those who have made the shortlist for this year’s award. The five Africans on the list are Alexander Ikawah, Fred Khumalo, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Jayne Bauling, and Muthoni wa Gichuru. The prize which attracted nearly 4000 entries had Leila Aboulela, Fred D’Aguiar, Marina Endicott,…