Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Zimbabwe Editor, AuthorMe.com
MY BIO
Tinashe Mushakavanhu was born in Harare, in the early eighties soon after
Zimbabwe's independence and belongs to the "born free" generation of Africans.
He spent his formative years in the capital before moving to Gweru in 1999
with his family.
He is a serious young man; ambitious and goal driven. He is in his final year
completing his English honours degree at Midlands State University, where he
established the MSU Writer's Club, which he currently chairs. Coordinates The
New Voices Magazine, a literary publication promoting new and young writing
from Zimbabwe; and recently begun working on a national programme to promote
poetry in Zimbabwe with another young writer, Kudzai Chikomo, called "Poetrypetals."
Tinashe became the youngest writer to be selected to participate in the
Crossing Borders Creative Writing project, a British Council and Lancaster
University (UK) initiative.
For a young person, Tinashe leads a busy life - he simultaneously writes for
two newspapers as a literary correspondent. Two of his short stories, 'City
Insomnia' and 'Amainini Wendy' have been published in an anthology, Short
Writings from Bulawayo II (2005). His many other poems and stories have been
published in various media.
What does writing mean to him? "My first impulsive answer will be to say, I
don't know. When I started writing, it was a way of letting out pent up
emotions...But now, as I grow older and begin to think more of writing, I have
started to write about the life around me; it's complexities, it's absurdities
and the simple daily happenings."
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