{"id":169,"date":"2015-10-30T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.shortstorydayafrica.org\/?p=169"},"modified":"2015-10-30T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T09:00:00","slug":"2015-short-story-day-africa-prize-shortlist-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shortstorydayafrica.org\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"2015 Short Story Day Africa Prize Shortlist announced"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Short Story Day Africa is pleased to announce the shortlist for the R10 000 Short Story Day Africa Prize for Short Fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n

This year over 450 entries were received for the Prize from over two dozen countries, from writers both living on the African continent and in the African diaspora. Once whittled down according to submissions guidelines, each story was stripped of all identifying elements and sent to two readers. A selection of 60 stories was then whittled down by the SSDA team to a longlist of 21. All longlisters stories will be collected in Water: New Short Fiction From Africa<\/em>, Short Story Day Africa\u2019s third anthology.<\/span><\/p>\n

The esteemed judging panel for this year\u2019s Prize consisted of South African Mary Watson, Kenyan Billy Kahora and Nigerian Abubakar Adam Ibrahim. The three judges blind-read and judged all the longlisted stories and, between the three of them, they selected a shortlist of six.<\/span><\/p>\n

The shortlist<\/strong> is as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n