Water

New Short Story Fiction from Africa: An Anthology from Short Story Day Africa

By Fred Khumalo, Christine Coates, Alex Latimer, and more

2016

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8H40M

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Water: New Short Fiction from Africa is Short Story Day Africa's third anthology of short fiction from the African continent and diaspora. This carefully-curated anthology of twenty-one stories is harvested from the over-400 entries to the project’s annual short story competition, the Short Story Day Africa Prize, in 2015. The collection includes well-known authors – such as Cat Hellisen, Fred Khumalo, Pede Hollist, Mary Okon Ononokpono, Efemia Chela and Louis Greenberg – alongside emerging stars like Megan Ross, Dayo Ntwari, Louis Ogbere and Alexis Teyie. With settings both realistic and fantastical, and stories both lyrical and urgent, this collection is the definitive high watermark for fiction from Africa this year.

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Authors

Fred Khumalo

Author · 8 books

Fred Khumalo is the author of the novels Bitches’ Brew, which was a joint winner of the 2006 European Union Literary Award, and Seven Steps to Heaven. His memoir, Touch My Blood, was shortlisted for the Alan Paton Prize for Non-fiction in 2007, and his most recent book, #ZuptasMustFall and Other Rants, was published in 2016. His short fiction has appeared in various anthologies, literary journals and magazines. He holds a MA in Creative Writing from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, where he lives.

Alex Latimer lives near the border of a national park so when not writing or drawing, he spends his free time shooing baboons out of his lounge. The Boy Who Cried Ninja is his first book for children. He lives in South Africa.

Presumably a person, occasionally a table. I write stories.

Mark Winkler

Author · 5 books

Mark Winkler is the author of the critically acclaimed novels An Exceptionally Simple Theory (of Absolutely Everything), Wasted, as well as The Safest Place You Know and Theo & Flora, both of which were shortlisted for the Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize. His work has been published worldwide in English and in French translation. His latest novel, Due South of Copenhagen, was published in April 2020.

Megan Ross was born in Johannesburg in 1989. She is the author of a book of poems called Milk Fever (uHlanga Press), as well as several short stories and essays. She has won the Brittle Paper Award for Fiction and the Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award. Megan was also a runner up for both the Short Story Day Africa Award and Short Sharp Stories Award and is also a PEN New Voices Award and Miles Morland Scholarship finalist. In 2019, Megan was a finalist for the Gerald Kraak Award in 2019, for her essay, 'Monstrous', which later went on to be included in an anthology that was a finalist for a Lambda (Lammy) Award. Her work has been featured in Catapult, Mail & Guardian, New Contrast, Glamour, GQ, Kalahari Review, the Johannesburg Review of Books, and The Good Trade. She is represented by Pontas Literary & Film Agency.

Dayo Ntwari is a Rwandan-Nigerian speculative fiction writer. His stories of the African fantastic have been published in Lightspeed Magazine's People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction (British Fantasy Society Award for Best Anthology), and The Manchester Review, among other places. Dayo Ntwari's stories are inspired by African legends and myths. He believes Africa’s diverse histories, religions, spirituality and mythologies can serve as a never-ending treasure trove of inspiration for African speculative fiction. Dayo loves writing stories of the African fantastic, and is publishing them on Patreon for free: https://www.patreon.com/dayontwari If you love reading them, then your support will allow him to continue writing them. His stories include: Omoshango, published in the People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue of Lightspeed Magazine (British Fantasy Award - Best Anthology 2017) Devil’s Village, shortlisted for the Writivism 2015 Short Story Prize Nomansland, shortlisted for the 2015 Huza Press Award Mother’s Love, longlisted for the 2015 Short Story Day Africa Prize