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Mutendei is the author of three published books; The first being THE POETRY EXPRESS: What Would I Want To Be Volume 1, along with The IdeaBankisms (Co-authored with Huey Markus) Launching this month on April 26th and the third being Shadow Walkers from the Symposium street collection being rereleased in May 2014.
Mutendei Akhaya Nabutete is also the owner/ operator of MAKN Productions; Through which as multi-talented writer, author/editor, spoken word artist and public speaker. Mutendei works to promote writing and literature, among other mediums as a means for individual and community development within the greater Toronto area and beyond. As a writer, Mutendei has written a high lev…el throughout his career.
“Nathaniel’s Ode” Mutendei’s first public work, published in SCENE Magazine, won SCENE’s Magazine’s Creative writing award competition in 2003. Mutendei honed his professional writing skills as a Student Journalist for the Fanshawe Interrobang College prior private writing from 2005 to 2010 while working & attending Humber College & York University. From this period of private writing Mutendei has had several endeavours writing and speaking with other members of the GTA community, as listed below:
1) Symposium Street
2) “The Poetry Express: What would I want to be?”
3) Basodee: An Anthology Dedicated to Black Youth
4) The OBHS Conference on “Youth in our community”
During our conversation, Mutendei talked about:
– Life growing up in Kenya
– How did he handle leaving Kenya to coming to Canada and how did he adjust
– When he realized writing would be his future
– The story behind each of his books
– How he knows when he is resonating with an audience
– Two key moments in his writing journey
– How the writers marketplace changed since he started
– How much of Kenya is in his writing
– Advice for the first time author
– Who does he like to read
You can connect with Mutendei via:
Website
Twitter
Facebook
Email
Phone: (647) 262-9658
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