Publishing and Partnerships

Q1. What is Writers Guild Kenya? We are an award-winning writers’ organization, committed to serve, educate and grow authors aspiring to use their writing & reading as a tool to be and do good. Through various education and empowering programs, we work unconditionally towards truly growing writers and encouraging reading in our families. Using personalized, […]

By Gabriel Dinda I see a lot of pressure among upcoming writers to write and publish. This is coming at a time when it appears that if you are a writer and you haven’t published, then you are ‘intellectually challenged’. The pressure to publish comes at a very high cost. Quality is being thrown out

By Juliet Mwangi. To some of us, there is nothing good in tragic moments. Not so for Douglas Logedi, and here is why: How did this journey begin? My writing journey has been a long and exciting one. I started thinking about writing in 2013 but never put it to practice. In fact, I refused

By Juliet Mwangi   It is every writer’s dream to finally have their literary work on the shelves, either locally or internationally. Nothing beats the joy of launching your book; the pride, the relief from all you have gone through. For Ida Kemunto, her journey of filling our bookshelves just began with her recently launched

By Juliet Mwangi A teacher of Physics and Chemistry, Charles Okoth is what we call a man of many hats.  He has a voice that speaks loudly against corruption and a heart that wants the best for his students. He majored in Physics at Kenyata University, attended Kakamega and Nyang’ori High Schools. Born in Busia

By Juliet Mwangi. Failing does not necessarily mean you are a failure and it’s never too late to start over. The first Writers Ekklesia meeting held on Friday the 11th of January proved this. Members of the Writers Guild Kenya reviewed their past year while sharing cookies at the Kenya National Museum Library. This year,

By Vera Dinda “Vera, I need your help. There’s this book I want to submit for publication. Please help me edit it.” So I did, though after 2 months. “I wait for so long and this is what I get?” She was furious because I said, “so much needs to be worked on; the story

By Rehema Zuberi Aspire 2018 Conference themed Make Your Mark surpassed all the expectations it set. The event running for two days, 6-7th September was fruitful, enlightening, engaging and significantly worth the time. As promised by the organizers, it was almost purely youngin’! From the delegates in attendance to the speakers, panelists; not forgetting the

By Verah Omwocha Reading a write – up about an event, it occurred to me how writing about events can be such an easy way to collect words and make them valueless, and boring. But hey, do you know you can write interesting and yet informative pieces out of events? I sampled the following tips.

By Dismas Okombo On this Friday afternoon of February, Kano’s over-head sun was mercilessly hot. Lost in the plains, the load was heavy on the lad’s tired tender shoulders but he did not want to put it down because it prevented the sun’s rays from hitting most parts of his body directly. The dark clay