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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The 2016 Short Story Day Africa Prize has just been announced! Our #WeekendRead, "The Worme Bridge" by Cat Hellisen, comes from SSDA's third anthology, Water, New Short Fiction from Africa, and is the winning story from 2015.