On 22 March 2023 the cover for the next Short Story Day Africa anthology was revealed in Brittle Paper: https://brittlepaper.com/2023/03/cover-reveal-captive-new-short-fiction-from-africa-edited-by-rachel-zadok-and-helen-moffett/
Edited by Rachel Zadok and Helen Moffett, Captive is a collaboration between Catalyst Press and Short Story Day Africa featuring stories by 12 emerging writers from Africa and the diaspora.
The stories explore “identities that connect us, the obsessions that bewitch us, and the self-delusions that tear us apart.” The cover represents the eclectic nature of the stories well as featuring the silhouette of a human head and shoulders split into four sections – yellow sun, green grass, a crowded beach, and a purple scarf. The cover design is by Megan Ross.
The stories in Captive come from the writers of Inkubator, an intensive, three-month, online seminar designed by Short Story Day Africa and Laxfield Literary Associates, and supported by the British Council Cultural Exchange program. Through this program, writers develop their fiction-writing and self-editing skills. The 12 writers chosen for the seminar are mentored by a distinguished group of writers, editors, and publishing professionals including Tochukwu Okafor, Karen Jennings, TJ Benson, Doreen Baingana, Olumide Popoola and Emma Shercliff.
The contributors for the collection include Sola Njoku (UK-Nigeria), Moso Sematlane (Lesotho), Aba Amissah Asibon (Ghana), Kabubu Mutua (Kenya), Doreen Anyango (Uganda), Salma Abdulatif Yusuf (Kenya), Zanta Nkumane (Eswatini), Emily Pensulo (Zambia), N. A. Dawn (South Africa), Khumbo Mhone (Malawi), Josephine Sokan (UK-Nigeria), and Yovanka Paquete Perdigão (Guinea-Bissau).