Fiction as Testimony: Writing the Real with Billy Kahora

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Fiction as Testimony: Writing the Real and workshop with Billy Kahora

Traditional conventions of fiction have always tended to pit the fictive imagination of the writer against the political and social realities of his/her place and time. This workshop will challenge writers to find ways of reconciling creative practice and lived experience.Meet the facilitatorBilly Kahora is a Kenyan writer and former Editor at Kwani? Publications include The True Story of David Munyakei (2008) and The Cape Cod Bicycle War (2019). He wrote the film Soul Boy and co-wrote Nairobi Half Life, teaches creative writing at the University of Bristol and is a PhD candidate at the University of Manchester.

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