#WeekendRead – Efemia Chela’s ‘Perigee’
Perigee was first published in the NIHSS award-winning, 2014 Short.Sharp.Stories Anthology, Adults Only. The story is about youth, sex and losing. Its title refers to the stage in the moon's…
“I think it’s a way for me to assert a kind of order in a very disordered world.” An Interview with Efemia Chela.
Efemia Chela is an Editor for Parrésia and Content Creator for Short Story Day Africa. After being grilled by Efemia last week, Helen Moffett had an opportunity for revenge. She…
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‘I like to explore what the absence of love can do to a living being.’ Akwaeke Emezi interviews Nana Nyarko Boateng.
Another Wednesday, another writer tagged! Writer to Writer, A Game of Writer Tag continues. Akwaeke picked Ghanaian writer Nana Nyarko Boateng. In conversation, Nana opened up about the personal nature of her…
Announcing the SSDA / Worldreader Editing Mentorship Programme
There is no shortage of people to teach you how to write, who want to teach you how to write - a WikiHow article, your primary school teacher, a dying…
“I didn’t have to be either/or; I could be also.” An Interview with Yaa Gyasi.
Yaa Gyasi's novel Homegoing takes the form of a historical epic, a complex genre many writers would not choose to undertake for their first novel. Her bravery certainly intrigued us but her…