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  In this Edition of the Writers Space Africa Magazine, I am privileged to chat with the Queen of Flash Fiction all the way from Kenya. Make welcome, Scholar Akinyi.     [...]

What Is Literary journal publishing? One of the best ways to become an established author is not by sending out hundreds of query letters to agents and independent publishers. Instead, it is by [...]

When we first met; You were a ball of fur Barely large enough to fit in my palm. That didn’t stop you- From clawing and kicking Those adorably tiny paws, Raging as we tried to fit you, In that [...]

Linguistics is the scientific study of language, how it works, how it is acquired, and how people use it to communicate. It is an important field of study for writers because without language, [...]

They sold rabbits here. Black ones, white ones, brown ones, spotted ones, striped ones, stout ones and shiny ones too. I thought they looked like small kangaroos. I was six then, I’m two scores [...]

A poem with a plot invites eavesdropping. Poems are a celebration of beauty – an appreciation of the awe of transcendence using equally romantic ways of expression. All poems are voices [...]

There are always moments when that ‘trite’ of fluctuating dreams Cease to be a nibble and reality hits And you are lost in memories as songbirds chirp outside while the faucet in that [...]

We chant, May we dwell in unity, peace and liberty, Yet elections get rigged And our women are burnt, land is grabbed. All motivated by senseless ethnic violence. Shamelessly, they sit with fat [...]

Plunged into chaos, it lies bleeding, a dying paradise, paradise lost overnight. Besieged hearts, feelings, love, unity mother’s, daughters, everything. The little ones, playing in shelters, [...]

My first close friend was a caramel-skinned, quiet girl. They were our neighbours, separated by a “ng’ombe” fence, rusted iron sheets and a feeble, tall lemon tree which never bore fruits. Her [...]