Writers’ Experience

After a successful outing in Nigeria last November, PenPen Africa Writers Residency is extending to Kenya. PenPen Africa is an African writers’ residency project featuring twelve select writers from across Africa in two separate Pens with six residents each in Abuja and Nairobi. The name PenPen Africa is derived from the word “Pen” and in

By Eunice Akinyi  The call to run into a writing spree, or just an exhilarating excursion, usually spurs gaiety. Think of a child who hasn’t seen her father for over a year and then the father sends her a message that he will be coming to see her or he just jets in unannounced. Imagine the

By Gabriel Dinda If you were given a blank sheet of paper today and asked to write your life’s desire(s) on it,what would you write? Probably, you would ask for wealth, fame, a wife or husband and long life or all of these. When God gave Solomon this opportunity by asking, “… What would you

By Wr. Cheryl Kahingo On that eventful day, the sounds of the mourning drums tore into the dark silence of the night. The few who had managed to catch some sleep hurriedly woke up. It was a quiet dawn, perhaps too quiet and it seemed that nature too was aware how heavy the matter was.

By Beatric Wairimu. Consider this: death of human and animal species, vanishing forests, rising sea levels, and we are now witnessing the fastest rate of species extinction. Most of these are effects of global warming. Did you know that the basic greenhouse effect can actually be good? If the atmosphere did not contain greenhouse gases

By Dedan Onyango. Today I will try to shade some light on this fading aspect that makes us human, yet distant most of us; honesty. Before I take you far and wide into the realms of this fading virtue, I want to honestly make one thing clear, I am not honest! Yes that’s the truth,

By Beatrice  Wairimu The long awaited rains are here with us. Do you wonder why they are taking so long than they used to be a while back? Have you noticed that the rains are more sporadic and intense and sometimes catastrophic causing a lot of destruction than good.  There is also drastic increase in

By Writers Guild Kenya, Writer. Violence and video games belong to two different genres of words; one is connected with pain and agony and another with fun and amusement. Two of them found their relation, when violence was infused in video games and a new genre of games categorized as violent video games flooded the