Kenyan, 2 Nigerian writers in Iseyin for Ebedi Writers Residency
Three writers, a Kenyan and two Nigerians are in Iseyin, Oyo State for the May/June 2018 Ebedi Writers Residency Session. They are; Troy Onyango, Socrates Mbamalu and T J Benson. Troy Onyango is a Kenyan writer and Lawyer. His fiction has appeared in various journals and magazines including Transition Magazine Issue 121, for which his short story 'The Transfiguration' was nominated for the 2016 Pushcart Prize. His short story 'For What Are Butterflies Without Their Wings?' won the fiction prize for the inaugural Nyanza Literary Festival Prize. He was shortlisted for the 2016 Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship. He is a Founding Editor of Enkare Review – a Nairobi-based literary magazine and the Fiction Editor of the East Africa issue of Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel. Troy will be using his time at Ebedi to complete work on his novel, tentatively titled The Sound of a Dream. He will also mentor secondary school students in Iseyin in the area