Last week, we received suggestions of similarity between two short stories. One, the Nigerian writer Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor’s “All Our Lives,” won the 2018 Short Story Day Africa (SSDA) Prize, was shortlisted for the 2018 Brittle Paper Award for Fiction and the 2019 Caine Prize, and was published in print in the SSDA anthology ID: […]
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The Caine Prize Announces 2019 Shortlist
Update: For failure to attribute an original source, the Caine Prize, in September 2019, removed Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor’s “All Our Lives” from its 2019 shortlist, while Short Story Day Africa released a statement on intertextuality. Five writers—from Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Nigeria—have been shortlisted for the 2019 Caine Prize, for short stories that explore “the […]
The 2018 Brittle Paper Award for Fiction: Meet the 5 Finalists
Update: For failure to attribute an original source, the Caine Prize, in September 2019, removed Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor’s “All Our Lives” from its 2019 shortlist, while Short Story Day Africa released a statement on intertextuality. Because we believe it to have resulted from inexperience rather than intentional withholding, we did not withdraw it from our […]
Short Story Day Africa 2017/2018 Prize Goes to Nigeria’s Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor
Update: For failure to attribute an original source, the Caine Prize, in September 2019, removed Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor’s “All Our Lives” from its 2019 shortlist, while Short Story Day Africa released a statement on intertextuality. The 2017/2018 Short Story Day Africa Prize has gone to Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor, for his short story “All Our Lives.” […]
The 9 Writers Shortlisted for the 2017/18 Short Story Day Africa Prize
Short Story Day Africa has announced the shortlist for its $800 2017/18 Prize. The Prize’s theme, announced in 2017, is ID—meaning both “identity” and the psychoanalytic concept of the Id—and required “innovative short fiction that explores identity, especially (but not limited to) the themes of gender identity and sexuality.” This year, the shortlist comprises nine […]
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