Kenyan author and 2010 IWP resident, Billy Kahora, speaks about his influences in writing, his process and experiences of living in Iowa City. He also discusses a story he has been working on for 6 years about his experiences while living in Cape...
Edgar Calabia Samar of the Philippines begins the panel with a discussion of the power of lists on readership. He states that the danger that lists of canonical books is the fact they ignore potentially significant works and may further limit...
Topics discussed: above all, Kahora’s work with and for the journal KWANI? (aesthetic and political decisions; funding; collaboration and practice of publishing; finding stories in the rapidly changing situation in east and south Africa). ...
A joint reading with the Iowa Writers' Workshop featuring poet and essayist Maryia Martysevich -- the first IWP participant from Belarus -- and Kenyan fiction and nonfiction writer Billy Karanja Kahora. They will be joined by Chinelo Okparanta, a...
Sponsored by the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program and the Graduate College, NonfictioNow highlighted some of the best writing of this burgeoning and often indefinable genre. The goal of the conference was to generate a discussion of...
Hinemoana Baker introduces herself in the language of her ancestors, the Māori, the original ethnic group of New Zealand. She relates a lamentable story that is frequently spoken out loud by the Māori and the non-Māori alike and yet has gone...