Tag: #longstorySHORT
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Poets, novelists for South African Mbokodo Awards
The Mbokodo Awards are presented annually to recognise women in the arts, highlighting the contribution by women to the ongoing development of the arts in South Africa. As you can expect, there are ladies who have been nominated for this award who we cover regularly on this blog. In creative writing, those nominated are Rehana…
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Zukiswa Wanner’s “The F Word” for #longstorySHORT
Zukiswa Wanner‘s “The F Word” will be the seventh story to be read in the #longstorySHORT series that is being recorded by our friends in South Africa. Zukiswa Wanner is well known to African literature followers. Her most recent gig is as the judge of the Etisalat Prize for African Literature where she and two…
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Doreen Baingana’s “Tropical Fish” for #LongStoryShort in August
Doreen Baingana is not a new name on this blog. The Ugandan writer emerged in 2005 with her collection of short stories Tropical Fish: Stories out of Entebbe (my review) which established her as the golden girl of Ugandan literature. For that book, she won an AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Prize for…
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Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike’s story for Long Story Short
I’ve been following the Long Story Short Project where the work of African writing is brought alive with interest. The work of some of the best writers on the continent is read by some of the better names in the arts in recordings that are presented as podcasts. It’s scintillating stuff with previous writers like…
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Images from #longstorySHORT with Thando Mgqolozana
The #longstorySHORT project is one that tries to bring life to literature by having some of the best storytellers told by some of those who tell stories the best. This is a partnership between word smiths and those who perform best in the business around the continent. The fourth in the series of public readings…
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Thando Mgqolozana story to be read at Long Story Short event
The fourth in the series of public readings which is the #longstorySHORT project that we love so much will be happening tomorrow at the Es’kia Mphalele Community Library in Pretoria tomorrow. The featured story will be The Weeping Willow by Thando Mgqolozana and it will be read by film, TV, and theatre actor Khulu Skenjana.…