Nairobi Now is giving away FIVE (!) tickets to this weekend’s StoryMoja Hay Festival.
In order to win, “comment” on this post on Nairobi Now’s site and between now and Friday tell us why we need to choose you for a free ticket. Also highlight to us some of the sessions you look forward to attending.
The Nairobi Now team will choose the best 5 answers and award them with a free ticket.
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Here is a small time writer working in an industry that deals in big numbers. Would love to rub shoulders with a few wordsmiths…to get these numbers out of my brain…would love those tickets
I am a university student and would like to meet inspiring artists who will be a source of motivation to pursue my art of becoming an event planner
Also i would love to check out the poetry slam and the stress and wellness management
I love words
They make me smile
They make me cry
They make me think
They make sing
I love long and short words
Would love to attend the session for turning ideas into money.
Words can create a feeling of heroism or failure
words are weapons of shelter or mass destruction
words are mysterious if not spoken in a language understood
Words, words, words……………Listen well!
I Love words especially words spoken! so get me this date
Am craving for a catharsis weekend…. my soul yearns to be feed with fine literature, words, ideas, poetry… the same way i desire for good coffee or really expensive chocolate.Am also dying to meet Rasna Warah and all the other guests.All my friends will be there some will be performing at the poetry slam would take a bullet rather miss this defining event that comes every year on my favorite month-September. By the way yesterday was my birthday so if i get a ticket i would be screaming ‘Hay Festival Till i Die’
Sincerely,
Oppressed Intern
I am an aspiring writer and I’d really like to attend the live discussion forums and learn from the great literary minds like Ben OKri. I’ve read The Famished Road and I loved it so a one on one with Okri will be great. I also know the tips I’ll get on creative writing from the live discussions will be invaluable. That ticket will definitely go a long way.
Words can create a feeling of heroism or failure
words are weapons of shelter or mass destruction
words are mysterious if not spoken in a language understood
Words, words, words……………Listen well!
I Love words especially words spoken! so get me this date for the Travel Writing with Peter Moore session!!!
The Spoken Word has power!
that is why John Mayer in his song titled ‘say what you need to say’ put it out so well…………’That it is better to say too much than not to say anything at all………even if your hands are shaking speak!!!
I love the spoken word, i have been writing a few articles here and there but am still vague at it
i need more information and this will be one source i would want to explore
Book me a date for Travel Writing with Peter Moore
I love spoken word and poetry
and discovering new writers and poets in town
and I hope to one day write good poems like the posts above mine!
and take my girl to a date different from the usual movie dinner coffee stuff. tickets please!
spend most of my life trying to know why things happen the way they do…….even based my life on scinces thinking that i would get the answers but after school i realised that life is science in an artistic form full of artist and not scientist……i would greatfull for that encounter. cheers
The thoughts in my mind, memories in my path, the aura of my being, the melody in my heart, the song that I sing, behold the beauty in my path, the feel of happiness, the caress of a smile, words I speak not………
It sounds much better written!
I would appreciate the tickets! 🙂
BEN OKRI!!!!!!!!!
I would love a ticket to get the chance to meet BEN OKRI,,, and get the chance for him to autograph my copies of the FAMISHED ROAD and INFINITE RICHES, the adventures of Azaro were an amazing get away from reality though they were soo real.
Besides that, a weekend full of literary fusions, is a fine one indeed.
If possible, i would highly appreciate, another ticket for a freind who i know would love the experince.
🙂 pleeease!
You see with books,its a garden; an orchard; a storehouse; a party; a multitude of counsellors”. What on earth is literacy for? and then would love to epitomise Mark Twain who told us: “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.I just love good books and perharps get an autograph.nairobinow be a miracle to me.
And the winners are…. Lilian Nandili, Ngusye Makali, Macantoy, Grace M, and Odero Gogni!
Congratulations guys!
Thank you so much even though i din’t end up picking my ticket because i just saw the email but i made it and had fun yeeeeeeeeeeey Hay Festival Till I die Thank you guys you rockkkkkk