Terra Incognita: Cover reveal
Over the past decade, the publishing industry has become risk averse. The words “genre-defying” and “original” make agents and editors break out in a cold sweat – or so we’re…
2014 YA & Kids competition winners
Winners of the YA Category*:1st Place – Kaya Oosthuizen, Pheonix2nd Place – Carla Lott, Megeni Kutua3rd Place – Lesego Pulamoeng, Patiko and PajokoThank you to all the YA writers for…
2014 Young Adult competition shortlist
Short Story Day Africa's 2014 children’s entries have been incredibly strong. What a privilege it will be to take these stories and create an anthology. While our entrants eagerly wait…
Terra Incognita competition longlist
2014 is Short Story Day Africa's year of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction gives writers a way to discuss issues without wheeling out the tropes and the poverty porn and the…
Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire On Writivism
Promoting Literature by Africans to Africans on the ContinentMost of the instant responses to the mention of Writivism have been to ask if it is about the use of writing…
Cristy Zinn on Running a Writing Workshop
Every year Short Story Day Africa receives inquiries from generous souls willing to run a writing workshop in a school, library or youth centre but the generous soul doesn't know…
Feast, Famine & Potluck: Cover Reveal
"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends." – Friedrich Nietzsche That Nietzsche quote has come to pretty much sum up the nature of…
Feast, Famine & Potluck: The Winners
After difficult deliberations, Petina Gappah has chosen the winners of our Feast, Famine and Potluck short story competition. 1st Place: "My Father's Head" by Okwiri Odour (Kenya)2nd Place: "Choke" by Jayne…
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