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            Straight Out Scribes  ��  NSAA Sean King  ��  Michael Ellis Monday ,  January 16 @ 7:30 pm Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th St Host: Emmanuel Sigauke    Free Admission       Straight Out Scribes Dr. V.S. Chochezi and Staajabu     NSAA  Lawrence E Dinkins Jr     Sean King     Michael Ellis     Straight Out Scribes, Dr. V.S. Chochezi and Staajabu, Sacramento's unique mother/daughter dynamic poetry duo is still in full effect as they embrace the New Year.  If you want to get the year off to an uplifting, inspiring, start come share some positive vibes with Straight Out Scribes!  Dr. V.S. Chochezi and Staajabu also known as Straight Out Scribes have published and performed their original poetry at numerous venu...

This is the 10th Anniversary year for Munyori Literary Journal, and we plan to make it a great year of serious publications. Submit your best. We start the year with a captivating short story by Zimbabwean writer Rumbi Munochiveyi's "A Certain Time Ago", which has gotten a huge following on the site, so many captivated and inspired readers, as our page stats have shown. Rumbi Munochiveyi is a Zimbabwean writer who is currently completing her B.S. in Mathematics at the Worcester State University, Massachusetts. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and four children. This is her second story to appear in Munyori Literary Journal. Ambuya died on a breezy, early August afternoon, twenty-five minutes after six o’clock, with my mother sitting next to her bed, calmly watching life slip out of her. Mamma folded her mother’s arms over a bosom barely covered by a thin-threaded muslin nightdress my grandmother had worn each night for seven years, and covered ...

Stories Invited for a Zimbabwean Short Story Collection amaBooks Publishers are planning a collection of Zimbabwean short stories, to be published in 2017.  We are inviting submissions by February 14, 2017. There are no restrictions on the length of the stories, and there is no particular theme. Stories for consideration should be emailed as Word attachments, with no artwork or photographs included, to amabooksbyo@gmail.com . Unfortunately, we will be unable to give feedback on those stories that are not accepted for publication. The writers whose work is accepted will each receive a copy of the book and they will retain copyright of their stories. The previous collections of short writings published by amaBooks include Where to Now? Short Stories from Zimbabwe , Long Time Coming: Short Writings from Zimbabwe and Short Writings from Bulawayo I , II and III . Where to Now? was co-published by Parthian Books in the UK and Long Time Coming was selected by New In...