The Young Writers’ Program (Nairobi 2010)

Posted by Storymoja Africa ⋅ August 20, 2010

The YWP was a ten-week introductory fiction course. The project was one of 100 Projects for Peace funded by the Kathryn W.Davis Foundation and conducted worldwide. Each summer, the Davis foundation offers 100 fellowships to undergraduate students in American universities to conduct projects aimed at promoting peace in the world. (See the Davis foundation website at www.davisprojectsforpeace.org )

The Writers _ Click image to read their bios

The YWP blog features the anthalogy of the recently concluded Young Writers’ Project, a ten-week course on creative writing. The stories there represent the effort and creativity of their authors. YWP participants were free to take or disregard suggestions made by project facilitators as well as colleagues.

To read the anthalogy, please visit www.theywpkenya.wordpress.com

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Knowledge is the most powerful engine for economic growth worldwide. To accelerate development in our beloved country, we have to nurture a reading culture that goes beyond academics and politics. Growing Kenya ’s reading culture is Storymoja’s mission as it feeds our business), our personal call as writers, and our patriotic duty. Storymoja is a venture recently formed by a collective of five writers who are committed to publishing contemporary East African writing of world-class standard. We source widely to identify good local writers, help them edit their submissions to exacting standards, and develop eye-catching book-covers.

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