On the 28th of April 2015, Commonwealth Writers announced the regional winners of the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Five writers from 5 Commonwealth regions were shortlisted. This year unpublished stories were entered by 4,000 writers from the five regions of the Commonwealth.
The regional winners will compete with each other to become the overall winner, which will be announced in London on 8 September.
2015 Regional winners:
Africa: Lesley Nneka Arimah, ‘Light’ (Nigeria)
Asia: Siddhartha Gigoo, ‘The Umbrella Man’ (India)
Canada and Europe: Jonathan Tel, The Human Phonograph (United Kingdom)
Caribbean: Kevin Jared Hosein, ‘The King of Settlement 4′ (Trinidad and Tobago)
Pacific: Mary Rokonadravu, ‘Famished Eels’ (Fiji)
Further details of the authors and links to their winning stories can be found on the regional winners page.www.commonwealthwriters.org/2015-commonwealth-short-story-prize-regional-winners
I like the idea of the rest of the #CommonwealthShortStoryPrize2015 being a pen-battle among the Top 5... whoa, people! Go for it, Nneka!
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