Your votes are in!
The winners of the 3rd Round of the Competition are Dignity my foot! By Titus Kaloki and Elevation by Ndago Abenea Odhiambo. These two stories will be entered into the Storymoja Hay Festival Story of the Month and stand to win their writers a Full Festival Pass.
Remember everyone who has ever contributed to the Storymoja Writer’s Blog or submitted their work for review to Storymoja is eligible for a Complimentary Day Pass. All you have to do is register your full name as it appears on your ID or Passport, and the name of one of the pieces you contributed or submitted, in the comments section of the post that first announced the complimentary tickets. Click here to get there.
Have you been keeping an eye on the Features Section of the Storymoja Website. Go there to see profiles of writers and participants as well as the Storymoja Hay Festival programme highlights. You can also download a programme sheet from the website.
And now to the fourth and final round of the Storymoja Hay Festival Story of the Month Contest. Voting for this session closes on 28th July, 2009. After the 5th and 6th winners are announced, the judges will review the stories and on the 29th of July, a decision shall be made and the winner announced. If you are the winner, you will receive a Full Festival Pass with unlimited opportunity to attend the discussions, forums, and entertainment sessions throughout the Storymoja Hay Festival.
1. Of your departure and the implosion of changes by Pascal Mailu: I have been through so much since you left dear bro. I got over working in Korogocho and moved on to another project in Kibera. You would have reckoned that I have just relocated from a smaller slum to a bigger one, yet things are so different, really. My heart never got into the Kibera project as it was into Korogocho.
2. Where is the racist? By Tabitha Mwangi: In certain hotels, we are relegated to dark sections of the room that we soon worked out, were hived off for prostitutes and their clients. The sleaze had to be kept away from the regular respectable clientele. The waiters would never address me directly assuming that I would eat what was ordered for me. The bill would be placed as far from me as was possible. Perhaps they feared I would pocket the tip.
3. The confession by Wanda Livingstone Ngata: She paused again when she heard the sound of a body falling hard on the floor behind her. Pastor Nyanya had collapsed and fell unconscious. She turned, looked at him and said, ‘I am sorry Pastor Nyanya.’ Then she walked out of the church.
4. Diary of a disillusioned soul by Nancy Biwott: There are some myths I have lived with for some time. And at last I am being forced to grow up. Let me list three of those myths; that hard work always pays, that the good Lord will reward those who do good and that if it was meant for you it will come to pass no matter what.
5. Caught on the wrong side of marital law by Festus N. Kang’alya: This particular evening, I was in my study surfing the net on my laptop computer as my wife set supper. I had been researching more on autism in children when I stumbled on a local E-dating agency. Out of curiosity I had opened the site and what transpired in my mind next was unexplainable.
6. Three signs by Christine Bukania: “What does it all mean?” she asked herself. Someone else would probably have swept away the shards of stone and come up with a plan to replace the broken piece with a better one. Not our Felly. No. For her everything was connected, linked by some mysterious force, which in this case was showing her something. She’d just have to find out what.
7. Reunion Down Memory Lane by Maruhi Maina: It was déjà vu all over again. What had up to now been a series of coincidences now began to fit in like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle for there right in front of me stood the house I had been seeing in my dreams these last couple of days. And outside it the red car too.
Well, then here is wishing you a great furahiday and a relaxing weekend!
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