The Winners! – Storymoja Hay Festival Poetry Competition

Posted by Storymoja Africa ⋅ September 23, 2010

Thank you very much for participating in the Storymoja Hay Festival Competition. The judges and I were privileged to read your work.

The poetry was judged by Dr. Melissa Girard, Dr. Christina Walter, Dr. Kathy-Ann Tan, Stephen Partington, and Phyllis Muthoni. Please join me in thanking these judges for their hard (unpaid!) work.

The winning entries are:

First place: Nkirote, “2 a.m. Souvenir”

Second Place: Michael Kwambo, “Letter from Kamiti”

Third Place: Karanja Kebuchi, “Four Wishes for Kenya”

Please join me in congratulating the winners!

We hope to make this competition an annual event and we welcome your suggestions on how it can be a better experience.

Sincerely,

Keguro Macharia

Poetry Coordinator.

About Storymoja Africa

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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