Tag: Short Story Day Africa
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Short Story Day Africa 2015 longlist announced
Short Story Day Africa has announced the longlist of this year’s anthology. The stories from writers from across the continent explored the theme “Water” in interesting and unexpected ways, and both the readers and the SSDA team and editors felt the collection to be exceptional in scope and skill. The twenty-one stories will now be…
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Calling all writers in Botswana! (Water Flow Writer Workshop)
I recently blogged about this year’s anthology that Short Story Day Africa has been working on called Water. Those who enter the competition are up for some good stuff and the chance to be in one of the coolest anthologies around. Apart from being in the anthology and being in the Caine Prize for African…
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Writivism Festival 2015: Day 2 promises loads
It’s getting to day two at the Writivism Festival 2015 which will be on the Thursday people. To those who want to keep up, I tell you that this is the place to be right now. Just like on day one, there shall be a school tour happening and this time around the school enjoying…
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Short Story Day Africa wants your support
So the other day I told you about the Short Story Day Africa anthology dubbed Water. The team behind the initiative has been doing their best to give you some of the best writing with a very very low income. If you imagine that these are the people who have published two Caine Prize nominees…
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‘Terra Incognita’ and ‘Follow The Road’ launch in Cape Town
Short Story Day Africa (SSDA) first came to the attention to some of us when it was won by Kenyan writer Okwiri Oduor in 2013. She went on to be shortlisted for the Caine Prize with fellow SSDA Efemia Chela(Zambia) and she won. With such a glorious starting it became quickly evident that you wanted…
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Diane Awerbuck is the Short Story Day Africa 2014 winner
The Short Story Day Africa prize has been announced. Short Story Day Africa for the uninformed brings together writers, readers, booksellers, publishers, teachers and school children from all over the globe to write, submit, read, workshop and discuss stories – and foster the love of reading and writing African fiction. They also run a prize…