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#WeekendRead – Namwali Serpell’s “The Sack”

  • Post author:Sharn
  • Post published:May 12, 2017
  • Post category:Weekend Read
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This weekend, get caught up in "The Sack", Namwali Serpell's 2015 Caine Prize-winning story. Zoë Wicomb, head of the judging panel, that year called it, "formally innovative, stylistically stunning, haunting and…

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#WeekendRead – Fiona Melrose’s Midwinter

  • Post author:Sharn
  • Post published:May 5, 2017
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Our #WeekendRead is a short excerpt from Fiona Melrose’s exquisitely written Midwinter. Set between two worlds and told from the alternating perspectives of Vale Midwinter and his father Landyn, the…

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#WeekendRead – Susan Newham-Blake’s “The Dying Woman”

  • Post author:Sharn
  • Post published:March 31, 2017
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Today we have an exclusive short story from our #WriterWednesday Susan Newham-Blake. In "The Dying Woman" a premonition causes Amy to turn over her life, inspecting its worth and her…

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#WeekendRead – Megan Ross’ “Farang”

  • Post author:Sharn
  • Post published:March 17, 2017
  • Post category:SSDA Prize/Weekend Read
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We whisk you away to Thailand for this #WeekendRead with another story from our newly-released collection - Migrations. "Farang" came third in the 2016 Short Story Day Africa Prize and was…

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#WeekendRead – Sibongile Fisher’s “A Door Ajar”

  • Post author:Sharn
  • Post published:March 3, 2017
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Our #WeekendRead is your first chance to read part of Migrations. Enjoy the 2016 Short Story Day Africa Prize winning story, "A Door Ajar". “There are a thousand ways to kneel…

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#WeekendRead – Sese Yane’s ‘The Corpse’

  • Post author:Sharn
  • Post published:February 24, 2017
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A mysterious death, an old man and a taciturn coroner populate the strange landscape of Sese Yane's intriguing tale. Enjoy "The Corpse", which was originally published in our 2014 anthology, Terra…

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#WeekendRead – Umar Turaki’s ‘Naming’

  • Post author:Sharn
  • Post published:February 17, 2017
  • Post category:Weekend Read
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This excerpt comes from 'Naming' by writer-filmmaker, Umar Turaki who was our #WriterWednesday this week. Travellers crammed into a car reckon with a dark night of the soul on a journey…

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#WeekendRead – Tade Thompson’s Rosewater

  • Post author:Sharn
  • Post published:February 10, 2017
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Earlier this week we featured Nick Wood in conversation with Tade Thompson. Our #WeekendRead is an excerpt from his newest book - Rosewater where the main character, Kaaro, has a life…

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#WeekendRead – Masha du Toit’s The Babylon Eye

  • Post author:Sharn
  • Post published:January 27, 2017
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This #WeekendRead comes from Masha du Toit's latest book, The Babylon Eye. It's a complex sci-fi thriller and we interviewed her about it earlier in the week. Now you get to…

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#WeekendRead – FunDza’s #LOVEREADING

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  • Post published:January 20, 2017
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FunDza and Cover2Cover have the shared goals of encouraging young people to get reading and making relevant, local stories accessible to them. #LOVEREADING collects popular pieces from FunDza’s mobisite as…

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