Tag: Black Letter Media
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Ope Adedeji is “The Short Story is Dead, Long Live the Short Story!” 2018 winner.
Ope Adedeji is the winner of “The Short Story is Dead, Long Live the Short Story!” 2018 competition. The announcement was made today February 1, 2019. The Short Story is Dead, Long Live The Short Story! is a competition set up by South African based Black Letter Media involving a short story call out and…
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Exclusive: Cover for new Zukiswa Wanner book “Hardly Working” Unveiled
The cover for Zukiswa Wanner’s new book Hardly Working published by Black Letter Media, the South African’s first entry into the travel/memoir genre, has been unveiled. Zukiswa Wanner burst onto the South African literary scene when her novel The Madams was published in 2006. The novel turned the concept of the madam on its head…
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LONG READ: Short story writer Osemegbe Aito on speculative fiction
In the second of three interviews that we co-published with Black Letter Media we speak with Osemegbe Aito. Heaven is a busy market and in Osemegbe Aito’s Petrichor it’s not always clear if Paradise is a better alternative to hell or perhaps organized religion has been selling the whole idea of unbridled well-being wrong. A…
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LONG READ: Mary Ononokpono speaks about winning short story prize
Mary Ononokpono won this year’s edition of The Short Story is Dead, Long Live The Short Story! for her story Firewater. Disrupted trajectories characterize the multiplex world of her story, a firm study of social relationships as queuing networks, birth and death do not go hand in hand so smoothly, and complicated answers are ever…
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Mary Ononokpono wins “The Short Story is Dead, Long Live the Short Story!” Prize 2017
Mary Ononokpono is the winner of this year’s edition of the “The Short Story is Dead, Long Live the Short Story!” Prize 2017. Osemegbe Aito and Tina Chiwashira take second and third place respectively. The Short Story is Dead, Long Live the Short Story! has in the last few years given voice to new writers…
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“The Short Story is Dead, Long Live the Short Story!” 2017 announces longlist
The team organising The Short Story is Dead, Long Live the Short Story!, a short story competition open to all Africans, has announced its longlist today. The Short Story is Dead, Long Live The Short Story! is a competition set up by South African based Black Letter Media which involves a short story call out…
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Black Letter Media announces judges for short story competition
Black Letter Media have announced the judges for their The Short Story is Dead, Long Live the Short Story! competition. They are Kgauhelo Dube, Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire and Sabata-mpho Mokae. In April, we prompted aspiring writers about the The Short Story is Dead, Long Live the Short Story! competition. This competition was started last year…
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Black Letter Media seeks your short stories
South African-based publisher Black Letter Media wants to read and publish your short stories in the third edition of their anthology The Short Story is Dead, Long Live the Short Story! Black Letter Media is a full service print and digital publishing and bookselling company Founded by Duduzile Zamantungwa Mabaso in 2011. The organisation focuses…