#WriteTips: The 2015 Short Story Day Africa Prize Winners.
Cat Hellisen - Don't be afraid to push yourself beyond your comfort zone when it comes to writing.- Write for yourself; edit for your readers.- Work the way that works for…
‘…America almost feels to me like a genre in itself.’ An Interview with Frank Owen.
Rivalry is rife in writing. Famous battles have included Ernest Hemingway vs. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel Garcia Marquez vs. Mario Vargas Llosa and Charlotte Brontë vs. Jane Austen. So were interested to find…
‘I believe short fiction is its own art.’ An interview with Nick Mulgrew.
Nick Mulgrew's debut collection, Stations, contains fourteen subtly interlinked tales set along the Southern African coastline from Cape Town to Mozambique, in which relationships, dreams and even narrators die; where fields…
“I write fiction of the fantastical.” An Interview with Cat Hellisen.
Cat Hellisen won the 2015 Short Story Day Africa Prize with her story, "The Worme Bridge". Her latest novel, Beastkeeper, a fairy tale for the loveless, has received high praise in…
‘Heights and deep, dark water are my two fears.’ An Interview with Alex Latimer
Alex Latimer is a respected children's book writer and illustrator and novelist. His short story, 'A Fierce Symmetry', is published in Water: New Short Fiction from Africa. Tiah: Your story, A…
“I suppose water and the issues around it have been very much in the collective consciousness.” An interview with Mark Winkler.
Photo credit: Simone Scholtz Mark Winkler is the author of two novels, An Exceptionally Simple Theory (of Absolutely Everything) and Wasted. His story, 'Ink', took third place in the 2015 Short Story…
‘I love the idea of writing as imaginary architecture.’ An Interview with Mary Watson.
Mary Watson won The Caine Prize in 2006 for her story "Jungfrau". Her novel, The Cutting Room was published to great acclaim in 2013, and she has been named as…