Tag: Kalemba Short Story Prize 2018

  • Mali Kambandu is Kalemba Short Story Prize 2018 winner

    Mali Kambandu is Kalemba Short Story Prize 2018 winner

    Mali Kambandu is the Kalemba Short Story Prize 2018 winner for her short story The Hand To Hold. After a process that has been going on for months, the inaugural Kalemba Short Story Prize has a winner. After a longlist announced on February 28 and a shortlist on March 27, the literary glory and US$1,000…

  • Kalemba Short Story Prize 2018 shortlist announced

    Kalemba Short Story Prize 2018 shortlist announced

    The writers in the running for the newest prize for Zambian writers, the Kalemba Short Story Prize 2018, have been announced. They are Chanda Chongo, Peter Nawa, Andrew Nguvu, Sampa Musaba, Mali Kambandu, and Mutinta Nanchengwa. The Kalemba Short Story Prize was announced late last year with the aim of bringing Zambian writers to the…

  • Meet the judges for the Kalemba Short Story Prize 2018

    Meet the judges for the Kalemba Short Story Prize 2018

    Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Namwali Serpell, Ainehi Edoro-Glines, and Mulenga Kapwepwe are the judges of the Kalemba Short Story Prize 2018. In October last year we posted a call out about a new prize for Zambian writers called the Kalemba Short Story Prize. The new prize would award the best unpublished short fiction of between 2,000…

  • New Kalemba Short Story Prize 2018 open to Zambian writers (Zambia only)

    New Kalemba Short Story Prize 2018 open to Zambian writers (Zambia only)

    The Kalemba Short Story Prize 2018 is open to writers from Zambia. The winner will receive US$1000 and will be announced at a special ceremony in Lusaka. Zambia isn’t too famous for its literary output on the African stage at this moment in time. The most famous name right now is Namwali Serpell who burst…