{"id":180,"date":"2015-09-01T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.shortstorydayafrica.org\/?p=180"},"modified":"2015-09-01T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T07:30:00","slug":"the-2015-short-story-day-africa-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shortstorydayafrica.org\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"The 2015 Short Story Day Africa Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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We are proud to announce the long list for the 2015 Short Story Day Africa Prize.<\/h3>\n

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In March we sent out a call for stories<\/a> around the theme of Water. We received 456 entries from all over the continent and the diaspora,  352 entries up from 2014.<\/p>\n

As the judging is blind, we can announce only the names of the long listed authors.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to:<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Alex Latimer<\/strong> (South Africa)<\/p>\n

Donald Molosi<\/strong> (Botswana)<\/p>\n

Wairimu Muriithi<\/strong> (Kenya)<\/p>\n

Christine Coates<\/strong>  (South Africa)<\/p>\n

Mark Mngomezulu<\/strong>   (Swaziland)                                                                                                   <\/p>\n

Cat Hellisen<\/strong> (South Africa)<\/p>\n

Louis Ogbere<\/strong> (Nigeria)<\/p>\n

Efemia Chela<\/strong> (Ghana\/Zambia)<\/p>\n

Louis Greenberg <\/strong>(South Africa)<\/p>\n

Chido Muchemwa<\/strong> (Zimbabwe)<\/p>\n

Wesley Macheso <\/strong>  (Malawi)                                                                                       <\/p>\n

Siyanda Mohutsiwa<\/strong> (Botswana)<\/p>\n

Alexis Teyie <\/strong>(Kenya)<\/p>\n

Mary Okon Ononokpono <\/strong>(Nigeria\/UK)<\/p>\n

Dayo Ntwari <\/strong>(Rwanda)<\/p>\n

Thabo Jijana <\/strong>(South Africa)<\/p>\n

Pede Hollist <\/strong>(Sierra Leone)<\/p>\n

Fred Khumalo<\/strong> (South Africa)<\/p>\n

Megan Ross <\/strong>(South Africa)<\/p>\n

Florence Onyango <\/strong>(Kenya)<\/p>\n

Mark Winkler <\/strong>(South Africa)<\/p>\n

Their stories explored the theme in interesting and unexpected ways, and both the readers and the SSDA team and editors felt the collection to be exceptional in scope and skill.<\/p>\n

The stories will now be sent to the judging panel: Mary Watson, Billy Kahora and Abubakar Adam Ibrahim.<\/p>\n

We hope to announce the shortlist sometime in October, with the winners announced at the Ake Festival in Nigeria in November. Prizes are sponsored by Worldreader<\/a>, Books Live<\/a>, ANT ProHelvetia<\/a> and All About Writing.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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