A memoir can be a powerful medium, encompassing various forms like prose and poetry. I am grateful to Readers’ Favorite for acknowledging me as a finalist in the non-fiction-cultural genre…
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© 2024 Gloria D. Gonsalves
The founder of World Children’s Poetry Day invites children of age ten and below to celebrate WoChiPoDa 2024 on Saturday, 5 October. Our tradition has been to share a theme…
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Dear reader, dear fellow poet, Thank you for stopping by. I am grateful to Maureen for launching this initiative in 2003. In 2013, I joined, or rather gatecrashed, as an…
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On Saturday, 7 October 2023, World Children’s Poetry Day (WoChiPoDa) marked the ninth year since its founding. Three events were held in Pwani, Dar es Salaam, and Kilimanjaro regions in…
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On Saturday, 2 September 2023, I was invited to read two of my books as part of the 10th anniversary of Lange Nacht der Literatur (Long Night of Literature) in…
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She, Ocean, sells neither shoes nor seashells on the seashore.The shoes she carries are not hers, I’m sure.For if she sells shoes on the seashore,then I’m sure she sells seashells…
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I sat on a mat beneath an imagined mango tree. There, the happiness and sorrows of my heart found a place as stories and poetry on paper. I joined the…
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The founder of World Children’s Poetry Day invites children of age ten and below to celebrate WoChiPoDa 2023 on Saturday, 7 October. Our tradition has been to share a theme…
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A week ago, I attended the sixtieth Bologna Children’s Books Fair. The fair was a four-day event from Monday, 6 to Thursday, 9 March 2023, and I participated on Wednesday…
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In December 2022 and January 2023, I had an opportunity to donate books to the Tanzania Library Service Board (TLSB) through the Kilimanjaro Regional Library. For writers in the diaspora,…
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