MAKENA ONJERIKA
2018 Winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing
Welcome to Makena's World of Words
BIO
Makena was awarded the 2018 Caine Prize for African Writing. She was shortlisted for the 2020 Bristol Prize and was a nominee for the 2020 Best of the Net Awards.
Following her Caine Prize win, she founded the Nairobi Writing Academy where she teaches the craft of fiction to new and emerging writers and collaborates with other writers to teach other forms of creative writing.
PUBLICATIONS
As author:
"The Brother" forthcoming in Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021 edition)
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" in Adroit Journal, October 2020.
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" in Johannesburg Review of Books, October 2020
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" in Granta.com and Bristol Prize Anthology, October 2020
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" in StillPoint Magazine, September 2020
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" in Fireside Quarterly, Summer 2020
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What Girls Want in the Afternoon
" in Waxwing, Winter 2020
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" in Doek!, Feb 2020
"Mathree" in
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" in Jalada, Dec 2019
"The Man Watching Our House" in New Daughters of Africa (anthology), March 2019
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" in Wasafiri, Feb 2017
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" in Urban Confustions, Jan 2013
As editor and publisher:
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", 2020 Anthology of the Nairobi Writing Academy
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", 2019 Anthology of the Nairobi Fiction Writing Workshop
